The fundamental question of biodiversity research aims to better understand how many different species manage to coexist in one place. A group of researchers believe they now have a more robust picture of what this looks like at some of the finest local scales ever studied.
," Max Adams, first study author and former postdoc at the George Washington University, says.
The researchers found that the same dynamics of resource availability and competition that exist at large scales—on a continent or within a large—are happening at the very small scales of these ant communities. Looking at these interactions in three different scales, the researchers found that the two factors flip flop in importance, meaning:
When you zoom in on the network of ants inside this tree, resource availability remains a key determining factor, but competition among different ant species starts to come into play. Here, the species start to directly compete with one another, by moving and bumping up against each other.
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