Intransitivity is infrequent and fails to promote annual plant coexistence without pairwise niche differences

Ecology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1193-1200

  Godoy, Oscar ^a   Stouffer, Daniel B ^b   Kraft, Nathan J B ^c   Levine, Jonathan M ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

California grasslands; competitive networks; functional traits; intransitive competition; rock paper scissors dynamics; stabilizing processes; trait dispersion patterns

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PLANT; COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GRASSLAND; NICHE; PARAMETERIZATION; STABILIZATION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PLANT;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PLANTS;

EID: 85017665515     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1782     Document Type: Article

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