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 language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1725-1726 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Ecology Letters |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| State | Published - 1 Nov 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
We thank the authors of Ellner . (2020) for an enlightening discussion on the use of IGR in past studies. This research was supported by the ISF‐NRF Singapore joint research program (ISF grant number 2669/17, NRF grant number WBS R‐154‐000‐B09‐281). et al We thank the authors of Ellner et al. (2020) for an enlightening discussion on the use of IGR in past studies. This research was supported by the ISF-NRF Singapore joint research program (ISF grant number 2669/17, NRF grant number WBS R-154-000-B09-281).
| Funders | Funder number |
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| ISF-NRF Singapore joint research program | |
| ISF‐NRF Singapore joint research program | |
| National Research Foundation | WBS R‐154‐000‐B09‐281 |
| National Research Foundation of Korea | |
| Israel Science Foundation | 2669/17 |
Keywords
- Coexistence
- environmental stochasticity
- invasibility
- lottery model
- mean growth rate
- mean time to extinction
- modern coexistence theory
- persistence