‘This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.’ How competitive intransitivity and niche overlap affect spatial coexistence Yinghui Yang 1 and Cang Hui 2,3,4 1 School of Mathematics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China 2 Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Matieland 7602, South Africa 3 Biodiversity Informatics Unit, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cape Town 7945, South Africa 4 International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology, Unit 10, 317 Essex Road, London, N1 2EE, United Kingdom Corresponding author: Yinghui Yang, School of Mathematics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China. E-mail: yangyh8605@swjtu.edu.cn Decision date: 03-Nov-2020 This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: [10.1111/oik.07735]. Accepted Article