Environmental pseudointeraction: The effects of ignoring the scale of environmental heterogeneity in competition studies

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-48

  Garrett, Karen A ^a,b   Dixon, Philip M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0030998408     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.1997.1295     Document Type: Article

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