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Diversity of larger consumers enhances interference competition effects on smaller competitors

Competition between large and small species for the same food is common in a number of ecosystems including aquatic ones. How diversity of larger consumers affects the access of smaller competitors to a limiting resource is not well understood. We tested experimentally how species richness (0–3 spp....

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Autores principales: Nascimento, Francisco J. A., Karlson, Agnes M. L., Näslund, Johan, Elmgren, Ragnar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21161548
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-010-1865-0