Local community size mediates ecological drift and competition in metacommunities
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Local community size mediates ecological drift and competition in metacommunities.
The outcome of competitive interactions is likely to be influenced by both competitive dominance (i.e. niche-based dynamics) and ecological drift (i.e. neutral dynamics governed by demographic stochasticity). However, spatial models of competition rarely consider the joint operation of these two processes. We develop a model based on the original competition-colonization trade-off model that in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.2344