Figure 1
From: Expansion, Exploitation and Extinction: Niche Construction in Ephemeral Landscapes
NC Reactions and the Colonization-Construction Trade-off. Left: Schematic showing the reactions for the NC model. The probability of colonization \((1-c)\) and construction c events occurring are dependent on the density \((\rho )\) of occupied sites within the colonization (\({r}_{\ast }\)) and construction range (\(r\)) of the stochastic process \((\xi )\). Sites in the lattice acquire one of 3 possible states, \(S=\{-,\varnothing ,+\}\) so the state of the system at time \(t\) is \({\xi }_{t}:{\mathscr{L}}\to S\). Right: Trade-off between construction (x-axis) and colonization (y-axis) with respect to 3 different values of α.
