Biodiversity and robustness of large ecosystems

We study the biodiversity problem for resource competition systems with extinctions and self-limitationeffects. Our main result establishes estimates of biodiversity in terms of the fundamental parameters ofthe model. We also prove the global stability of solutions for systems with extinctions and large turnoverrate. We show that when the extinction threshold is distinct from zero, the large time dynamics of systemis fundamentally non-predictable. In the last part of the paper we obtain explicit analytical estimates ofecosystem robustness with respect to variations of resource supply which support the R* rule for a systemwith random parameters.Funding agencies: Linkoping University; Government of Russian Federation [08-08]; RFBR [16-01-00648]