Weak dispersal and landscape size inevitably promote local biodiversity in heterogeneous metacommunities of competing species
Frederik De Laender, Andrew Gonzalez, Olivia Bleeckx, Dieter Ebert, György Barabás
The paper explains how weak dispersal and larger landscapes increase local biodiversity in competitive species by linking spatial coexistence to nonspatial competitive dynamics and validates this with simulations and field data.
bioRxiv · Feb 24, 2026 · PreprintEcology