Spatio-temporal Concepts from the Chesson Lab

Diversity maintenance mechanisms
  • The Storage Effect
  • Environmental Niches
  • Relative nonlinearity
  • Nonlinear competitive variance
  • Fitness-Density Covariance
  • Classification of Mechanisms

  • Fluctuation-dependent mechanisms
  • Fluctuation-independent mechanisms
  • Variation-dependent mechanisms
  • Variation-independent mechanisms
  • Stabilizing and equalizing mechanisms
  • Dynamical Concepts  

  • The scale transition
  • Nonlinear averaging
  • Aggregation of risk
  • Stochastic boundedness
  • Covariance of sensitivity

  • Classification of Ecological Variation
  • Within-individual variability
  • Between-individual variation
  • Within-patch variability
  • Between-patch variation
  • Environmental variation