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A general framework for the aggregation model of coexistence
Article first published online: 12 JUL 2002
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2002.00628.x
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Hartley, S. and Shorrocks, B. (2002), A general framework for the aggregation model of coexistence. Journal of Animal Ecology, 71: 651–662. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2002.00628.x
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- Issue published online: 12 JUL 2002
- Article first published online: 12 JUL 2002
- Received 25 June 2001; accepted 11 March 2002
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Keywords:
- clutch-laying;
- competition;
- mean crowding;
- patchy resources;
- spatial model
Summary
- 1The aggregation model of coexistence has been used widely to explain the coexistence of competing species that utilize patchy and ephemeral resources. Over the years, it has been reformulated in many different ways, using different assumptions, indices and analyses, leading sometimes to contradictory conclusions. We present a general framework, from which many of the alternative approaches are derived as special cases.
- 2A generalized distribution, composed of the distribution of visits across patches and the distribution of eggs per visit, is used to model changes in the mean individual-level experience of density that occur at different population-level densities.
- 3New and more general criteria for coexistence are derived, based upon standard invasability analysis of Lotka–Volterra competition equations applied to a patchy system.
- 4An important parameter in the new coexistence criteria is the mean per capita density of individuals in a single clutch (
). Until now this measure has been relatively ignored, experimentally and theoretically. - 5We confirm earlier findings that the random distribution of clutches may be a sufficient cause of aggregated egg distributions to allow coexistence between species of unequal competitive ability, but only if the product of competition coefficients is less than one.