Limiting similarity, species packing, and system stability for hierarchical competition-colonization models

American Naturalist

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 371-383

  Kinzig, A P ^a,b   Levin, S A ^a   Dushoff, J ^c   Pacala, S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Competition colonization trade off; Ecosystem stability; Limiting similarity; Species packing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032922442     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303182     Document Type: Article

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