A specter of coexistence: Is centrifugal community organization haunted by the ghost of competition?
Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution
By: Gideon Wasserberg, B.P. Kotler, D.W. Morris, and Z. Abramsky
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Abstract
In a centrifugally organized community species prefer the same habitat (called "core") but differ in their secondary habitat preferences. The first model of centrifugal community organization (CCO) predicted that optimally foraging, symmetrically competing species would share use of the core habitat at all density combinations. But one might also assume that the competition in the core habitat is asymmetrical, that is, that one of the species (the dominant) has a behavioral advantage therein. In this study, we asked how should habitat use evolve in a centrifugally organized community if its species compete asymmetrically in the core habitat? To address this question we developed an "isoleg model". The model predicts that in a centrifugally organized community, asymmetric competition promotes the use of the core habitat exclusively by the dominant species at most points in the state space. The separation of the core habitat use by the species ("the ghost of competition past") may be either complete or partial ("partial ghost"), and behavior at the stable competitive equilibrium between the species could determine whether coexistence should occur at the "complete-" or the "partial ghost" regions. This version of CCO should be a common feature of competitive systems.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | A specter of coexistence: Is centrifugal community organization haunted by the ghost of competition? |
| Series title | Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year Published | 2006 |
| Language | English |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution |
| First page | 123 |
| Last page | 140 |
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