Factors affecting the occurrence of facilitative effects in interspecific interactions: An experiment using two species of Drosophila and Aspergillus niger

Oikos

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 166-174

  Hodge, Simon ^a,b   Mitchell, Paul ^a   Arthur, Wallace ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA HYDEI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032711571     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3547007     Document Type: Article

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