Coexistence of insect species competing for a pulsed resource: toward a unified theory of biodiversity in fluctuating environments.

One major challenge in understanding how biodiversity is organized is finding out whether communities of competing species are shaped exclusively by species-level differences in ecological traits (niche theory), exclusively by random processes (neutral theory of biodiversity), or by both processes s...

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Main Authors: Samuel Venner, Pierre-François Pélisson, Marie-Claude Bel-Venner, François Débias, Etienne Rajon, Frédéric Menu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3061935?pdf=render