Alexandru Hening, Tufts, A general theory of coexistence for ecological communities
ZoomA fundamental problem from population biology is finding conditions under which interacting species coexist or go extinct. I present results that lay the foundation for a general theory of stochastic coexistence. This theory extends and makes rigorous Modern Coexistence Theory and leads to resolving a number of conjectures due to Chesson, Ellner, and Palis. I…