Recruitment facilitation can promote coexistence and buffer population growth in metacommunities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1201-1210

  Gouhier, Tarik C ^a   Menge, Bruce A ^a   Hacker, Sally D ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffered population growth; Coexistence; Competition; Metacommunity; Recruitment facilitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931749027     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01690.x     Document Type: Article

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