An empirical model of species coexistence in a spatially structured environment

Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1761-1771

  Yu, Douglas W ^a,b   Wilson, Howard B ^a   Pierce, Naomi E ^b  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allomerus; Ant plant symbiosis; Azteca; Competition colonization trade off; Cordia nodosa; Dispersal fecundity trade off; Habitat destruction and selection hypotheses; Lottery model; Metapopulation; Parasite; Source sink dynamics; Storage effect

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION;

ALLOMERUS DEMERARAE; AZTECA; CORDIA NODOSA;

EID: 0034952756     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[1761:AEMOSC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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