Journal article
Competing species leave many potential niches unfilled
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A cornerstone of biology is that coexisting species evolve to occupy separate ecological niches. Classical theory predicts that interspecific competition should lead to all potential niches being occupied, yet observational data suggest that many niches are unfilled. Here we show that theory can be reconciled with observational data by reconceptualizing competition in the Hutchinsonian niche space to distinguish between substitutable and non-substitutable resources. When resources are substit...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
+ European Research Council
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Watkins, E
Grant:
268904-DIVERSITY
+ European Research Council
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Lourenço, J
Grant:
268904-DIVERSITY
+ European Research Council
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Gupta, S
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268904-DIVERSITY
+ Calleva Research Centre for Evolution and Human Science (Magdalen College, Oxford)
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Foster, K
Grant:
242670
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Nature Ecology and Evolution Journal website
- Volume:
- 1
- Pages:
- 1495–1501
- Publication date:
- 2017-09-18
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-07-26
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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2397-334X
- Source identifiers:
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709446
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pubs:709446
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uuid:d56cabd8-915e-411c-81ce-591755fb9379
- Local pid:
- pubs:709446
- Deposit date:
- 2017-07-27
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- Copyright holder:
- © Ashby, et al 2017
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from Nature Publishing Group at: 10.1038/s41559-017-0295-3
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