Exploitative competition in differently sized Daphnia species: A mechanistic explanation

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2348-2357

  Kreutzer, Christian ^a   Lampert, Winfried ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body size; Carrying capacity; Competitive ability; Daphnia; Resource equilibrium; Threshold concentration

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CAPACITY; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CLADOCERA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA AMBIGUA; DAPHNIA GALEATA; DAPHNIA PULICARIA; DAPHNIIDAE; PULICARIA;

EID: 0032880099     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[2348:ecidsd]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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