Fig. 4: Effect of CNDD on successional diversity and recruitment. | Communications Biology

Fig. 4: Effect of CNDD on successional diversity and recruitment.

From: Integrating conspecifics negative density dependence, successional and evolutionary dynamics: Towards a theory of forest diversity

Fig. 4

a Analytical results (lines, Eq. (6)) of successional diversity, as a function of CNDD parameter \({{\rm{\beta }}}\) for different metacommunity size \({J}_{M}\). b The expected density of recruits as a function of break-even time declines with CNDD. This decline is stronger for late-successional species. Near \(r=1\) recruits drop to zero because the break-even time is too close to the disturbance interval. Other parameters \({J}_{M}=100\), \(c=1.5\), and \({{\rm{f}}}/{{\rm{m}}}=1\).

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