Competition coefficients in a marine epibenthic assemblage depend on spatial structure

Oikos

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 79-88

  Dunstan, Piers K ^a   Johnson, Craig R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; GROWTH RATE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038583679     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.11462.x     Document Type: Article

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