A new hypothesis to explain the coexistence of n species in the presence of a single resource

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 329, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 40-46

  Lobry, Claude ^a   Harmand, Jérôme ^a,b  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Density dependence; Limitation by diffusion; Microbial ecology; Ratio dependence; Species coexistence

Indexed keywords

CHEMOSTAT; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); RESOURCE AVAILABILITY;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOSTATISTICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES HABITAT; SURVIVAL RATE;

CELL PHYSIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 30344469344     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2005.10.004     Document Type: Article

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