Models Suggesting Field Experiments to Test Two Hypotheses Explaining Successional Diversity
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Models suggesting field experiments to test two hypotheses explaining successional diversity.
A simple mathematical model of competition is developed that includes two alternative mechanisms promoting successional diversity. The first underpins the competition-colonization hypothesis in which early successional species are able to persist because they colonize disturbed habitats before the arrival of late successional dominant competitors. The second underpins the niche hypothesis, in w...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Naturalist
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0003-0147,1537-5323
DOI: 10.1086/286203