Dominance-discovery and discovery-exploitation trade-offs promote diversity in ant communities.

In ant communities, species coexist by using different foraging strategies. We developed an adaptive dynamics model to gain a better understanding of the factors that promote the emergence and maintenance of strategy diversity. We analysed the consequences of both interspecific competition and resou...

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Main Authors: Louise van Oudenhove, Xim Cerdá, Carlos Bernstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209596

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