Consumer-resource theory predicts dynamic transitions between outcomes of interspecific interactions

Ecology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1357-1366

  Nathaniel Holland, J ^a   Deangelis, Donald L ^b  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Miami   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditionality; Consumer resource interaction; Context dependent; Density dependent; Interaction outcome; Mutual predation; Mutualism; Parasitism; Resource supply; Stability; Theory

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; MUTUALISM; PARASITISM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PREDATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 70449380224     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01390.x     Document Type: Article

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