“…That is, a necessary and sufficient condition for the strict diagonal dominance of A is that JL > 2 max (ri)· Observing further that all the diagonal elements of A are negative, and applying the Levy-Desplanques Theorem [7], we see that a sufficient condition for the zero solution to be stable is that JL > 2 max (ri)· This is simply a condition of mortality outpacing reproduction, and does not depend on pair formation rates at all. j,F'rom this analysis, we see that in systems where the recruitment rates can be written solely in terms of the aggregates Mi, Fi, i = 1, ... , N, i.e.…”