An experimental demonstration of exploitation competition in an ongoing invasion

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 118-132

  Petren, Kenneth ^a   Case, Ted J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clumped resources; Competition; Exploitation; Geckos; Hemidactylus frenatus; Human impact; Insect predation; Interspecific competition; Intraspecific competition; Invasion; Lepidodactylus lugubris; Mechanism

Indexed keywords

GEKKO; GEKKONIDAE; HEMIDACTYLUS FRENATUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDODACTYLUS LUGUBRIS;

COMPETITIVE DISPLACEMENT; DIETARY OVERLAP; EXPLOITATION COMPETITION; GECKO;

EID: 0030404926     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265661     Document Type: Article

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