Is there really insufficient support for Tilman's R* concept? A comment on Miller et al.

American Naturalist

Volumn 169, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 700-706

  Wilson, J Bastow ^a   Spijkerman, Elly ^b   Huisman, Jef ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Competition experiment; Phytoplankton; Resource competition; Resource ratio hypothesis; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; NOTE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34247472149     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513113     Document Type: Note

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