Can environmental fluctuation prevent competitive exclusion in sympatric flycatchers?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1425, 1999, Pages 1247-1251

  Sætre, Glenn Peter ^a,c   Post, Eric ^a   Král, Miroslav ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Forestry Commission   (Czech Republic)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ficedula albicollis; Ficedula hypoleuca; Interspecific competition; Intraspecific competition; North Atlantic Oscillation; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CLIMATE; COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MODEL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AVES; FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA;

EID: 0347459091     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0770     Document Type: Article

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