Is storage an adaptation to spatial variation in resource availability?

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Grover, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Lagrangian modeling; Phytoplankton; Resource competition; Resource storage; Spatial variability

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FITNESS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 61849112758     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/595751     Document Type: Article

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