Scaling up from local competition to regional coexistence across two scales of spatial heterogeneity: Insect larvae in the fruits of Apeiba membranacea

Oecologia

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 188-196

  Inouye, Brian D ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Competition; Nested spatial variation; Patchy and ephemeral habitats; Spatial aggregation

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); NESTEDNESS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANGIOSPERM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FLY; FRUIT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; FRUIT; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LARVA; MALVACEAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

APEIBA MEMBRANACEA; INSECTA;

EID: 27444437728     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-005-0059-7     Document Type: Article

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