Competing species leave many potential niches unfilled

Nature Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 1495-1501

  Ashby, Ben ^a,b   Watkins, Eleanor ^c   Lourenço, José ^c   Gupta, Sunetra ^c   Foster, Kevin R ^c  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMPATRY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMPATRY;

EID: 85031896700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2397334X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0295-3     Document Type: Article

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