Individual phenotypic variation reduces interaction strengths in a consumer-resource system

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 3703-3713

  Gibert, Jean P ^a   Brassil, Chad E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Interaction strengths; Intraspecific variation; Invasion; Species persistence; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921970823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1212     Document Type: Article

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