Coexistence mechanisms of mycophagous drosophilids on multispecies fungal hosts: Aggregation and resource partitioning

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 794-803

  Toda, Masanori J ^a   Kimura, Masahito T ^a   Tuno, Nobuko ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Association; Community; Competition; Northern Japan; Patch size

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; FUNGUS; PATCH SIZE; RESOURCE USE;

JAPAN;

DIPTERA; DROSOPHILIDAE;

EID: 0032781255     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.1999.00328.x     Document Type: Article

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