Verification and reformulation of the competitive exclusion principleстатья
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Аннотация:Biodiversity conservation is becoming increasingly urgent. It is important to find mecha-
nisms of competitive coexistence of species with different fitness in especially difficult cir-
cumstances – on one limiting resource, in isolated stable uniform habitat, without any
trade-offs and cooperative interactions. Here we show a such mechanism of competitive
coexistence based on a soliton-like behaviour of population waves. We have modelled it
by the logical axiomatic deterministic individual-based cellular automata method. Our
mechanistic models of population and ecosystem dynamics are of white-box type and so
they provide direct insight into mechanisms under study. The mechanism provides indef-
inite coexistence of two, three and four competing species. This mechanism violates the
known formulations of the competitive exclusion principle. As a consequence, we propose
a fully mechanistic and most stringent formulation of the principle.