Revising the tolerance-fecundity trade-off; or, on the consequences of discontinuous resource use for limiting similarity, species diversity, and trait dispersion

American Naturalist

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  D'Andrea, Rafael ^a   Barabás, György ^a   Ostling, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition colonization trade off; Continuous coexistence; Discontinuous resource use; Diversity; Nonsmooth competition kernel; Species packing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DPS PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

COLONIZATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FECUNDITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PLANT COMMUNITY; RESOURCE USE; SEED SIZE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TOLERANCE; TRADE-OFF;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84875547156     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/669902     Document Type: Article

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