When the feasibility of an ecosystem is sufficient for global stability?

We show via a Liapunov function that in every model ecosystem governed by generalized Lotka–Volterra equations, a feasible steady state is globally asymptotically stable if the number of interaction branches equals n−1, where n is the number of species. This means that the representative graph for which the theorem holds is a `treeʹ and not only an alimentary chain. Our result is valid also in the case of non-homogeneous systems, which model situations in which input fluxes are present.