Seed-cache exchange promotes coexistence and coupled consumer oscillations: A model of desert rodents as resource processors

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 215-231

  Price, Mary V ^a   Mittler, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence mechanisms; Computer model; Exploitative competition; Food storage; Heteromyidae; Inter specific interactions; Population dynamics; Resource processing chains

Indexed keywords

CACHING; COEXISTENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT;

ARTICLE; COMMENSALISM; CONSUMER; DESERT; FOOD STORAGE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SIMULATION; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; HETEROMYIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0038581526     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5193(03)00088-2     Document Type: Article

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