Does "supersaturated coexistence" resolve the "paradox of the plankton"?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 404-407

  Schippers, Peter ^a,b,c   Verschoor, Antonie M ^a   Vos, Matthijs ^a   Mooij, Wolf M ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Chaos; Chemostat; Model; Multiple resource competition; Oscillations; Persistence; Phytoplankton; Supersaturated coexistence

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; LIMITING FACTOR; PLANKTON; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0034755059     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00239.x     Document Type: Article

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