Niche Overlap as a Function of Environmental Variability
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Niche overlap as a function of environmental variability.
The relationship between environmental variability and niche overlap is studied for a class of model biological communities in which several species compete on a one-dimensional continuum of resources, e.g., food size. In a strictly unvarying (deterministic) environment, there is in general no limit to the degree of overlap, short of complete congruence. However, in a fluctuating (stochastic) e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.69.5.1109