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dc.contributor.authorVuorinen, Katariina Elsa Maria
dc.contributor.authorOksanen, Tarja Maarit
dc.contributor.authorOksanen, Lauri
dc.contributor.authorVuorisalo, Timo
dc.contributor.authorSpeed, James David Mervyn
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-10T08:38:18Z
dc.date.available2022-03-10T08:38:18Z
dc.date.issued2021-06-14
dc.description.abstractOverexploitation of natural resources is often viewed as a problem characteristic of only the human species. However, any species could evolve a capacity to overexploit its essential resources through natural selection and competition, even to the point of resource collapse. Here, we describe the processes that potentially lead to overexploitation and synthesize what is known about overexploitation limiters in other species. We propose that there are five pathways that counteract the evolutionary drive towards overexploitation and/or mitigate its consequences: top–down trophic control, interference, cost-efficiency tradeoffs, resource trait evolution, and spatial heterogeneity. These mechanisms constrain the number of exploiters and/or lower the rate of the resource usage at the individual level. We hypothesize that in ecosystems with reasonable functional diversity, coevolution strengthens this limiter network, preventing overexploitation, and thus argue that diversity begets stability via evolution. Violent population cycles in species-poor northern ecosystems and eruptions of invading alien species are exceptions that confirm this rule, because these ecosystems either lack functional diversity or there has not been enough time for coevolution to play out its stabilizing role. We propose that the overexploitation by our own species could be prevented via a network of socio-economical limiters that act in an analogous way.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVuorinen Elsa Maria, Oksanen TM, Oksanen, Vuorisalo, Speed. Why don't all species overexploit?. Oikos. 2021;130(11):1835-1848en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1946627
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/oik.08358
dc.identifier.issn0030-1299
dc.identifier.issn1600-0706
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/24360
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.journalOikos
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleWhy don't all species overexploit?en_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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