When does periodic variation in resource growth allow robust coexistence of competing consumer species?

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 372-382

  Abrams, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chaos; Coexistence; Competition; Consumer resource model; Functional response; Nonlinearity; Periodic variation

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

EID: 1542349770     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0684     Document Type: Article

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