Heteromyopia and the spatial coexistence of similar competitors

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 48-59

  Murrell, David J ^a   Law, Richard ^b  

^a NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competition; Dispersal distance; Interaction distance; Lotka Volterra; Moment dynamics; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0037262694     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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