SIZE-DEPENDENT MORTALITY AND COMPETITION INTERACTIVELY SHAPE COMMUNITY DIVERSITY
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Size-dependent mortality and competition interactively shape community diversity.
Body size is recognized as a major factor in evolutionary processes mediating sympatric diversification and community structuring. Life-history types with distinct body sizes can result from two fundamental mechanisms, size-dependent competition and size-dependent mortality. While previous theoretical studies investigated these two processes in separation, the model analyzed here allows both se...
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عنوان ژورنال: Evolution
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0014-3820
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01692.x