Title:

Resource partitionig among unequal competitors

Subtitle:

Resource partitionig among unequal competitors

Creator:

Uchmański, Janusz

Contributor:

Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Ekologii

Publisher:

Polish Scientific Publishers

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

1987

Description:

Pages 71-87 : illustrations ; 24 cm ; Bibliographical references (pages 86-87) ; Abstract in Polish

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

intraspecific competition ; resource partitioning ; weight distribution ; mathematical model

Abstract:

Intraspecific competition leads to unequal resource partitioning among individuals. Skewness of weight distributions in even-aged populations of plants and animals may be considered as a result of unequal resource partitioning. Properties of the function describing resource partitioning used in the mathematical model of weight differentiation, which simulate all features of weight distributions, are presented. Several experiments which concern relations between competition, resource partitioning and weight distributions are discussed, together with some population consequences of individual inequality.

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Relation:

Ekologia Polska

Volume:

35

Issue:

1

Start page:

71

End page:

87

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

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application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

ISSN 0420-9036

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Language:

eng

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pol

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