Increasing resource specialization among competitors shifts control of diversity from local to spatial processes

Ecology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-5

  Framk, Steven A ^a   Amarasekare, Priyanga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonization; Competition; Dispersal; Extinction; Host parasite; Metapopulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002967927     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1998.00007.x     Document Type: Article

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