Competition and Coexistence: Exploring Mechanisms That Restrict and Maintain Diversity within Mutualist Guilds

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Palmer, Todd M ^a   Stanton, Maureen L ^a   Young, Truman P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant plant symbiosis; Competition for partners; Competition colonization tradeoffs; Generalist; Limiting resources; Mutualism; Myrmecophyte; Patch dynamics; Pollination; Resource partitioning; Specialization; Species coexistence

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MUTUALISM;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANT; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 0242540394     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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