Local dispersal promotes biodiversity in a real-life game of rock-paper-scissors

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6894, 2002, Pages 171-174

  Kerr, Benjamin ^a   Riley, Margaret A ^b   Feldman, Marcus W ^a   Bohannan, Brendan J M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; POPULATION STATISTICS; ROCKS;

NONTRANSITIVE COMMUNITIES;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY; DISPERSION; ECOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NATURAL SCIENCE; PAPER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANTIDOTES; CELL DIVISION; COLICINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SELECTION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0037062936     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature00823     Document Type: Article

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