A competition–defence trade‐off both promotes and weakens coexistence in an annual plant community
Journal of Ecology, 106(5), 1806–1818.
author keywords: annual plant; coexistence; competition; competition-defence trade-off; fitness hierarchy; granivory; harvester ant; seed depot
TL;DR:
The results show that the presence of a competition–defence trade‐off in a community with stabilising niche differences does not always increase diversity and suggest that variation in consumer pressure may be an important driver of large‐scale diversity patterns.
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