Coexistence of competitors in marine metacommunities: Environmental variability, edge effects, and the dispersal niche

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2289-2302

  Aiken, Christopher M ^a   Navarrete, Sergio A ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Dispersal; Environmental variability; Metapopulation; Niche; Reactivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84905656791     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0472.1     Document Type: Article

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