Biological communities are rarely stable. Their composition is constantly changing, depending on the environmental conditions in the respective ecosystems—and sometimes this change is so vast that individual species completely disappear from a community. In order to predict such developments, researchers employ ecological models. The most promising ones are mechanistic models—those based on the foundational biological mechanisms determining the coexistence of different species. Such models have the potential to reliably predict the composition of biological communities in different habitats.
Mechanistic model can predict biological community development across ecosystems
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