Invasion growth rate and its relevance to persistence: a response to Technical Comment by Ellner et al.

Jayant Pande, Tak Fung, Ryan Chisholm, Nadav M. Shnerb

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Abstract

Ellner et al. (2020) state that identifying the mechanisms producing positive invasion growth rates (IGR) is useful in characterising species persistence. We agree about the importance of the sign of IGR as a binary indicator of persistence, but question whether its magnitude provides much information once the sign is given.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1725-1726
Number of pages2
JournalEcology Letters
Volume23
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Nov 2020

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Keywords

  • Coexistence
  • environmental stochasticity
  • invasibility
  • lottery model
  • mean growth rate
  • mean time to extinction
  • modern coexistence theory
  • persistence

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