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Emergent Shapes of Trait-Based Competition Functions from Resource-Based Models: A Gaussian Is Not Normal in Plant Communities.

The American naturalist - 1 Aug 2021

Falster Daniel S, Kunstler Georges, FitzJohn Richard G, Westoby Mark

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AbstractIn community ecology, it is widely assumed that organisms with similar traits compete more intensely with one another for resources. This assumption is often encoded into theory and empirical tests via a unimodal competition function, which predicts that per capita competitive effect declines with separation in traits. Yet it remains unknown how well this function represents the true effect of traits on...

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PMID: 34260875
DOI: 10.1086/714868

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