Grazers and diggers: Exploitation competition and coexistence among foragers with different feeding strategies on a single resource

American Naturalist

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 266-279

  Richards, Shane A ^a,c   Nisbet, Roger M ^b   Wilson, William G ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^d  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Coexistence; Exploitation competition; Foraging; Invasion analysis

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0034031545     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303316     Document Type: Article

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