Anthony Clarke

Apr 2, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Bianca J. Kay |Colin Harris |Anthony Clarke

INTRODUCTION Competition is one of the key biotic factors influencing organismal distribution, abundance and diversity in ecological communities (Kaplan & Denno 2007). A common hypothesis associated with the role of competition in community assembly is that closely related species compete more intensely than distantly related species, reducing the ability of those species to coexist (Webb 2000).