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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 27.
Published in final edited form as: Cell. 2014 Mar 27;157(1):41–50. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.013

Figure 2. Niche effects on inhabitant diversity from ecologic models.

Figure 2

Settings of stable environmental conditions enable dominance of a competitively advantaged population to the progressive exclusion of less fit populations (left). However, in the context of increased variability of niche conditions, the number of subpopulations supported in a given microenvironment increases resulting in a greater diversity of inhabitants (right).