Competition-similarity relationships and the nonlinearity of competitive effects in consumer-resource systems

American Naturalist

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 463-474

  Abrams, Peter A ^a   Rueffler, Claus ^a,b   Dinnage, Russell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Competition; Competition coefficient; Competitive asymmetry; Consumer resource interactions; Resource overlap; Resource utilization

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; RESOURCE USE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 53149147049     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590963     Document Type: Article

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