Intransitivity is infrequent and fails to promote annual plant coexistence without pairwise niche differences.

Godoy, Oscar; Stouffer, Daniel B; Kraft, Nathan J B; Levine, Jonathan M

Godoy, Oscar; Stouffer, Daniel B; Kraft, Nathan J B; Levine, Jonathan M.

Affiliation

Godoy O; Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS-CSIC), Av. Reina Mercedes 10, E-41080, Sevilla, Spain.
Stouffer DB; Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, 8140, New Zealand.
Kraft NJB; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, 621 Charles E. Young Drive South, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA.
Levine JM; Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich, Universitaetstrasse 16, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.

Ecology ; 98(5): 1193-1200, 2017 May.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28241383

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Ecosystem; Plants; Models, Biological; Phenotype

Key words

California grasslands; competitive networks; functional traits; intransitive competition; rock-paper-scissors dynamics; stabilizing processes; trait dispersion patterns

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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Plants / Ecosystem Type of study: Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Language: En Journal: Ecology Year: 2017 Type: Article Affiliation country: Spain

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