Determinism in a Transient Assemblage: The Roles of Dispersal and Local Competition

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 586-596

  Friedenberg, Nicholas A ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Dispersal; Experimental evolution; Spatial scale; Spatio temporal heterogeneity; Trade off

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COMPETITIVE ABILITY; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FITNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0344287238     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378782     Document Type: Article

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