Theory of marine communities: Competition, predation, and recruitment-dependent interaction strength

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 277-296

  Connolly, Sean R ^a,b   Roughgarden, Joan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic oceanic coupling; Competition model; Interaction strength; Intertidal community; Lotka Volterra model; Oceanographic processes; Planktonic larvae; Predator prey model; Recruitment; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMPETITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT;

EID: 0032799046     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1999)069[0277:TOMCCP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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