Differential competitive interactions and the included niche: An experimental analysis with grasshoppers

Oikos

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-112

  Chase, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTERACTION; GRASSHOPPER; INCLUDED NICHE; NICHE;

ACRIDIDAE; ARPHIA PSEUDONEITANA; MELANOPLUS SANGUINIPES; ORTHOPTERA; TRACHYRHACHYS KIOWA;

EID: 0030303811     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545752     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Abramsky, Z., Rosenzweig, M. L. and Pinshow, B. 1991. The shape of a gerbil isocline using principles of optimal habitat selection. - Ecology 72: 329-340.
2. _ , Rosenzweig. M. L. and Zubach, A. 1992. The shape of a gerbil isocline: an experimental field study. - Oikos 63: 193-199.
3. _ , Ovadia, O. and Rosenzweig, M. L. 1994. The shape of a Gerbillus pyramidum (Rodentia: Gerbillinae) isocline: an experimental field study - Oikos 69: 318-326.
4. Ayala, F J., Gilpin, M. E. and Ehrenfeld, J. 1973. Competition between species: theoretical models and experimental tests. - Theor. Popul. Biol. 4: 331-356.
5. Belovsky, G. E. 1984. Moose and snowshoe hare competition and a mechanistic explanation from foraging theory. - Oecologia 61: 150-159.
6. _ 1986. Generalist herbivore foraging and its role in competitive interactions. - Am. Zool. 26 51-69.
7. _ 1990. Grasshopper competition. - 1989 Annual Report, GHIPM Project, USDA/APHIS/PPQ, Boise, ID, pp. 45-50.
8. _ 1991. Grasshopper competition and predation: biological control options. - 1990 Annual Report, GHIPM Project, USDA/APHIS/PPQ, Boise, ID, pp. 37-44.
9. _ and Slade, J B. 1993. The role of vertebrate and invertebrate predators in a grasshopper community. - Oikos 68: 193-201.
10. _ and Slade, J. B. 1995. Dynamics of some Montana grasshopper populations: relationships among weather, food abundance and intraspecific competition. - Oecologia 101: 383-396.
11. _ , Slade, J. B. and Stockhoff, B. A. 1990. Susceptibility to predation for different grasshoppers: an experimental study. - Ecology 71: 624-634.
12. Bennett, W. A. 1990 Scale of investigation and the detection of competition: an example from the house sparrow and house finch introductions in North America. - Am Nat. 135: 725-747.
13. Cameron, G. N. 1971. Niche overlap and competition in woodrats. - J. Mammal. 52: 288-296.
14. Chapman, R. F. and Joern, A. (eds) 1990 Biology of grasshoppers. - Wiley, New York.
15. Chase, J. M. 1996 Varying resource abundances and competitive dynamics. - Am. Nat. 147: 649-654.
16. _ and Belovsky, G. E. 1994. Experimental evidence for the included niche. - Am Nat. 143: 514-527.
17. Colwell, R. K. and Fuentes, E. R. 1975. Experimental studies of the niche. - Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 6: 281-310.
18. Connell, J. H. 1983. On the prevalence and relative importance of interspecific competition: evidence from field experiments. - Am. Nat. 122: 661-696.
19. Gilbert, J. J. 1985. Competition between rotifers and Daphnia. - Ecology 66: 1943-1950.
20. Gilpin, M. E. and Ayala, F. J. 1973. Global models of growth and competition. - Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 70: 3590-3593.
21. Gurevich, J., Morrow, L. L., Wallace, A. and Walsh, J. S. 1992. A meta-analysis of competition in field experiments. - Am. Nat. 140: 539-572.
22. Hallett, J. G. and Pimm, S. L. 1979. Direct estimation of competition. - Am. Nat. 113: 593-599.
23. Hutchinson, G. E. 1957. Concluding remarks. - Cold Springs Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 22: 415-427.
24. Jaeger, R. G. 1970. Potential extinction through competition between two species of terrestrial salamanders. - Evolution 24: 632-642.
25. _ 1971. Competitive exclusion as a factor influencing the distributions of two species of terrestrial salamanders. - Ecology 52: 632-637.
26. _ 1972. Food as a limited resource in competition between two species of terrestrial salamanders. - Ecology 53: 535-546.
27. _ 1974. Competitive exclusion: comments on survival and extinction of species. - BioScience 24: 33-39.
28. Joern, A. and Klucas, G. 1993. Intra- and interspecific competition in adults of two abundant grasshoppers from a sandhills grassland. - Environ. Entomol 22: 352-361.
29. Kripner, L. 1991. Effects of competition, predation, and weather on the organization of a grasshopper community. - M.S. thesis, Univ. of Michigan.
30. Livdahl, J. H. and Willey, M. S 1991 Prospectus for an invasion: competition between Aedes albopictus and native Aedes triseriatus. - Science 252: 189-191.
31. Miller, R. S. 1964. Ecology and distribution of pocket gophers (Geomyidae) in Colorado. - Ecology 45: 256-272.
32. _ 1967. Patterns and process in competition. - Adv. Ecol. Res. 4: 1-74.
33. _ 1968. Conditions of competition between redwings and yellowheaded blackbirds. - J Anim. Ecol. 37: 43-62.
34. Morse, D. H. 1974. Niche breadth as a function of social dominance. - Am. Nat. 108: 818-830.
35. Mulkern, G. B. 1967 Food selection by grasshoppers. - Annu. Rev. Entomol. 12: 59-78.
36. _ , Pruess, K. P., Knutson. H., Hagen, A. F., Campbell, J. B and Lambley, J. D. 1969. Food habits and preferences of grasslands grasshoppers of the North Central Great Plains. - N.D. Agric Exp. Stn. Bull. 481.
37. Pfister, C A. 1995. Estimating competition coefficients from census data: a test with field manipulations of tidepool fishes. - Am. Nat. 146: 271-291.
38. Pimm, S. L. 1985. Estimating competition coefficients from census data. - Oecologia 67: 588-590.
39. Ritchie, M. E. and Tilman, D. 1992. Interspecific competition among grasshoppers and their effect on plant abundance in experimental field environments. - Oecologia 89: 524-532.
40. _ and Tilman, D. 1993. Predictions of species interactions from consumer-resource theory: experimental tests with grasshoppers and plants. - Oecologia 94: 516-527.
41. Rosenzweig, M. L., Abramsky, Z., Kotler, B. and W. Mitchell. 1985. Can interaction coefficients be determined from census data? - Oecologia 66: 194-198.
42. Rusterholz, K. A. 1981. Competition and the structure of an avian foraging guild. - Am. Nat. 118: 173-190.
43. Schaffer, W. M., Zeh, D. W., Buchmann, S. L., Kleinhans, S., Schaffer, M. V. and Antrim, J. 1983. Competition for nectar between introduced honey bees and native North American bees and ants. - Ecology 64: 564-577.
44. Schmitz, O. J. 1993. Trophic exploitation in grassland food chains: simple models and a field experiment. - Oecologia 93: 327-335.
45. _ 1994. Resource edibility and trophic exploitation in an old field food web. - Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91: 5364-5367.
46. Schoener, T. W. 1974a. Competition and the form of habitat shift. - Theor. Popul. Biol. 6: 265-307.
47. _ 1974b. Some methods for calculating competition coefficients from resource-utilization spectra. - Am. Nat. 108: 322-340.
48. _ 1975. Presence and absence of habitat shift in some widespread lizard species. - Ecol. Monogr. 45: 233-258.
49. _ 1983. Field experiments on interspecific competition. -Am. Nat. 122: 240-285.
50. _ 1985. On the degree of consistency expected when different methods are used to estimate competition coefficients from census data. - Oecologia 67: 591-592.
51. _ 1986. Mechanistic approaches to community ecology: a new reductionism? - Am. Zool. 26: 81-106.
52. Smith-Gill, S. J. and Gill, D. E. 1978. Curvilinearities in the competition equations: an experiment with Ranid tadpoles. - Am. Nat. 112: 557-570.
53. Terry, R. A. and Tilley, J. M. A. 1964. The digestibility of the leaves and stems of perennial ryegrass, cocksfoot, timothy, tall fescue, lucerne and sainfoin as measured by an in vitro process. - J. Brit. Grassl. Soc. 19: 363-372.
54. Tilman, D. 1987. The importance of the mechanisms of interspecific competition. - Am. Nat. 129: 769-774.
55. Underwood, T. J. 1986. The analysis of competition by field experiments. - In: Kikkowa, J. and Anderson, D. J. (eds), Community ecology: pattern and process. Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 240-268.
56. Uvarov, B. P. 1966. Grasshoppers and locusts: a handbook of general acridology. Volume 1: anatomy, physiology, development, phase polymorphism, introduction to taxonomy. - Anti-Locust Research Centre, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
57. Wilkinson, L. 1993. SYSTAT: the system for statistics. - SYSTAT, Inc., Evanston, IL.