Coexistence via resource partitioning fails to generate an increase in community function

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  DeLong, John P ^a   Vasseur, David A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CILIATE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PARAMECIUM AURELIA; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; BIOTA; PARAMECIUM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CILIOPHORA; COLPIDIUM STRIATUM; PARAMECIUM AURELIA; PROTISTA;

BIOMASS; BIOTA; PARAMECIUM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84855609597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030081     Document Type: Article

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