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Ecology: mechanisms for consumer diversity.

Nature - 5 Jan 2006

Yoshida Takehito, Jones Laura E, Ellner Stephen P, Hairston Nelson G

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A variety of mechanisms can theoretically produce competitive coexistence in nature, making it hard to identify a single explanation for the maintenance of diversity in any particular system. Based on laboratory experiments with a consumer-resource system of crustacean Daphnia eating algae, Nelson et al. suggest that maintenance of genetic diversity in the consumer populations they studied depends only on the...

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PMID: 16397458
DOI: 10.1038/nature04526

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