Community Ecology Processes, Models, and Applications
morphological transformation into bacteroids. Rhizo- bia can fix nitrogen only in this transformed state, which is reached throu ...
supporting those that are fixing more nitrogen with increased resources, then cooperation will tend to be favoured. This has bee ...
available to the host. As nitrogen is depleted, the non-legumes are excluded and the legumes estab- lish on the basis of a regul ...
and form typical fungus–root structures that are referred to as mycorrhizas (Smith and Read 1997). In this section, we largely f ...
(1988) predicts that, if two plant species compete for resources, the one with the lowest zero popula- tion growth isocline, i.e ...
individuals can be interconnected to these hyphal networks. Such networks not only connect indivi- duals of the same plant speci ...
interactions such as competition and facilitate the coexistence of competing species. However, in some cases, mutualist interact ...
CHAPTER 14 Emerging frontiers of community ecology Peter J. Morin 14.1 Introduction Speculation about the future direction of an ...
constrained by dynamics continue to figure promi- nently in our ways of attempting to understand food web patterns. The various ...
same spatial scale for species drawn from the same species pool of bacterivorous microorganisms, it is clear that factors like h ...
the reliable maintenance of critical ecosystem services (see Chapters 7, 9 and 10). 14.2 Future directions Of the various topics ...
to concerns over the loss of species to human- caused extinctions (Macket al. 2000; Lockwood et al. 2007; van der Weijdenet al. ...
they are more productive. It would be very interest- ing to see whether similar patterns would hold in the data used to infer la ...
could enhance invasion by increasing the likelihood that a suitable prey species would support the growth of the invader. Conver ...
R’ S’ C’ R’’ S’’ C’’ R S C 1 2 3 Competition subnetworks within functional groups/ trophic levels: Mutualism networks: Trophic n ...
the mechanism of competition, or the competitive hierarchy among these species, is not so easy. The other important feature that ...
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