Balance of terror: an alternative mechanism for competitive trade-offs and its implications for invading species

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Publication Type Journal Article
School or College College of Science
Department Biology
Creator Adler, Frederick R.
Title Balance of terror: an alternative mechanism for competitive trade-offs and its implications for invading species
Date 1999
Description This article uses models to propose an explanation for three observations in community ecology: the apparent overreaction of prey to attack by specialist predators, the existence of a common trade-off among components of competitive ability in communities of unrelated competitors, and the ability of invading species to break the native trade-off. Strategies that increase resource collection ability are assumed to increase vulnerability to attack by specialist consumers according to a vulnerability function.
Type Text
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Volume 154
Issue 5
First Page 497
Last Page 509
Subject Models; Curve; Native
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Adler, F. R. (1999). Balance of terror: an alternative mechanism for competitive trade-offs and its implications for invading species. American Naturalist, 154(5), 497-509. Nov.
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