Trade-Offs and Coexistence in Fluctuating Environments: Evidence for a Key Dispersal-Fecundity Trade-Off in Five Nonpollinating Fig Wasps

The ecological principle of competitive exclusion states that species competing for identical resources cannot coexist, but this principle is paradoxical because ecologically similar competitors are regularly observed. Coexistence is possible under some conditions if a fluctuating environment change...

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Published in:The American naturalist 2015-07, Vol.186 (1), p.151-158
Main Authors: Duthie, A. Bradley, Abbott, Karen C., Nason, John D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animal Distribution
Animals
California
Coexistence
Competition
Competitive exclusion
Density
Dispersal
Ecological competition
Ecology
Ecosystem
Eggs
Fecundity
Fertility
Ficus - parasitology
Hymenoptera
Insect eggs
Insects
Introduced species
Ovules
Population Dynamics
Predictions
Resource availability
Species
Wasps - physiology
Wing loading
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