Coexistence in disturbance-prone communities: How a resistance-resilience trade-off generates coexistence via the storage effect

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Miller, Adam D ^a   Chesson, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Disturbance; Resistance resilience; Spatial storage effect; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DISPERSAL; LIFE HISTORY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHRUB; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 61849087896     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/595750     Document Type: Article

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