The storage effect due to frequency-dependent predation in multispecies plant communities

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 148-164

  Chesson, Peter ^a   Kuang, Jessica J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual plant community; Apparent competition; Foraging behavior; Frequency dependent predation; Seed predator; Species coexistence; Storage effect due predation; Switching

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL PLANT; APPARENT COMPETITION; COEXISTENCE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEED PREDATION;

EID: 77955273240     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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