Resource CompetitionAs one of the most quantitative of ecological subdisciplines, resource competition is an important, central area of ecology. Recently research into this area has increased dramatically and resource competition models have become more complex. The characterisation of this phenomenon is therefore the aim of this book. Resource Competition seeks to identify the unifying principles emerging from experimental and theoretical approaches as well as the differences between organisms, illustrating that greater knowledge of resource competition will benefit human and environmental welfare. This book will serve as an indispensable guide to ecologists, evolutionary biologists and environmental managers, and all those interested in resource competition as an emerging discipline. |
Contents
Theoretical and experimental foundations | 17 |
Experimental studies of resource competition | 48 |
Critiques | 89 |
Nonequilibrium resource competition | 100 |
Spatial heterogeneity | 172 |
Competition for light | 207 |
Resource competition and evolution | 233 |
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abiotic abiotic resource algae algal allelopathy bacteria biological biomass capita carnivore Chapter chemostat competing competition for light competitive ability competitive exclusion competitive outcomes consumer consumption vectors cultures curve Daphnia depends diatoms dominance Ecology edible equation system equilibrium eutrophication experimental experiments food chain food web freshwater functional response Grover growth function habitat herbivore increase inhibitor interactions interspecific competition invasion isocline K-selected Kilham limiting Limnology loss rate Lotka-Volterra equations mathematical maximal growth rate MBC lines microbial microorganisms models Monod N₁ nitrogen nutrient concentration nutrient supply occur organisms P₁ parameters parasitoid patterns persist phenotype phosphorus phytoplankton plankton plant isoclines plant species population density population growth predator predictions prey priority effects quota R*-rule region resource availability resource competition theory resource supply resource-ratio hypothesis silicon simple simulation Sommer spatial heterogeneity stable coexistence strategies studies superior competitor supply points supply ratio theoretical Tilman time¯¹ tion total nutrient variability zooplankton
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