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Article: Analysis of larval trematode communities.
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- Ecology
- Article date:
- December 1, 1994
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INTRODUCTION
Considerable debate centers around whether communities are more than just random assemblages of species (Strong et al. 1984, Sih et al. 1985, Sale 1991). Although disturbance, physical stress, recruitment dynamics, predation, and competition all might alter the distribution and composition of species in a community, the role of interspecific competition is at the center of the community structure debate (e.g., Diamond 1975, Connor and Simberloff 1979, Connell 1980, 1983, Schoener 1983, Gurevitch et al. 1992). To resolve this issue, we must explicitly and consistently define "community structure," find tractable systems for study, and use analytical ...