High competition with low similarity and low competition with high similarity: Exploitative and apparent competition in consumer-resource systems

American Naturalist

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 114-128

  Abrams, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competition; Consumer resource system; Exclusion; Indirect effect; Overexploitation

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER-RESOURCE MODEL; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; RESOURCE CAPTURE RATE; SIMILARITY;

EID: 0031840673     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/286153     Document Type: Article

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