Spatial arrangement affects population dynamics and competition independent of community composition

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1485-1491

  Hart, Simon P ^a   Marshall, Dustin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Coexistence; Competition; Interspecific competition; Intraspecific competition; Segregation; Sessile invertebrate; Spatial

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONSPECIFIC; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVERTEBRATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SESSILE SPECIES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRADE-OFF; ZOOBENTHOS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 67449143467     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1813.1     Document Type: Article

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