Intraspecific niche flexibility facilitates species coexistence in a competitive community with a fluctuating environment

Oikos

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-66

  Yamauchi, Atsushi ^a,b   Miki, Takeshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; COEXISTENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HERITABILITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; NICHE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 58149107213     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.16736.x     Document Type: Article

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