Biodiversity of marine microbes is safeguarded by phenotypic heterogeneity in ecological traits

Fig 6. Phenotypically heterogeneous strategies enable co-existence. An equilibrium strategy also co-exists with the invariant strategy and in general co-exists with all strategies that have the same mean competitive ability. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254799.g006 Fig 7. Equilibrium strategies resist invasion. Simulation results for larger population abundances and longer durations confirm the examples shown in the visualizations in Figs 4 through 6. A uniform distribution is an equilibrium strategy. It co-exists with all strategies that have the same mean competitive ability. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254799.g007 PLOS ONE Biodiversity of marine microbes is safeguarded by phenotypic heterogeneity in ecological traits PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254799 August 4, 2021 10 / 18