This type of competitive interaction plays a key role in how individual bacteria establish themselves in a community, such as the human gut. (sciencedaily.com)
Recently, the principles based on competitive interactions for the explanation of biodiversity have been criticized from both theoretical and empirical approaches. (sciencedaily.com)
Therefore, biodiversity may increase community stability by promoting diversity among species in their responses to environmental fluctuations, but increasing the number and strength of competitive interactions has little effect. (science.sciencemag.org)