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The authors suggest competitive exclusion is probably rare in natural habitat.
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e0“in the natural habitat, where interactions are further weakened by microtopographic niche separation and interrupted by fine-scale disturbances, competitive exclusions are probably rare, if they occur at all.”
t0“bryophytes”
Title
Competitive hierarchy, but no competitive exclusions in experiments with rich fen bryophytes
Kalle Mälson; Håkan Rydin Journal of Bryology 2009. doi:10.1179/174328209x404916
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation The three bryophytes differed in spatial expansion into competitors’ areas.
- Observation Campylium stellatum and Scorpidium cossonii had similar spatial expansion.
- Observation Scorpidium scorpioides had very low spatial expansion.
- Association Spatial expansion depended on the identity of the paired species.
- Observation All three pairwise interactions were strongly asymmetric.
- Observation The interactions formed a competitive hierarchy.
- Observation No competitive exclusion occurred over the two-year experiment.