Relative competitive success of unequal competitors changes with overall density

Oikos

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 158-162

  Tregenza, Tom ^a,b   Hack, Mace A ^a   Thompson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CICHLIDAE;

COMPETITION; DENSITY; SCRAMBLE COMPETITION;

EID: 0030302133     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545596     Document Type: Article

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