Competitive coexistence in spatially structured environments: A synthesis

Ecology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1109-1122

  Amarasekare, Priyanga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Life history trade offs; Source sink dynamics; Spatial coexistence; Spatial heterogeneity; Storage effect

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ECOLOGICAL THEORY; HETEROGENEITY; NICHE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0347365868     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00530.x     Document Type: Review

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