Eating the competition speeds up invasions

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 307-311

  Hall, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraguild predation; Invasion; Reaction diffusion; Travelling wave

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FOOD CONSUMPTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; PERSISTENCE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TROPHIC LEVEL;

EID: 79954495053     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0766     Document Type: Article

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