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Effects of landscape pattern on competitive interactions

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Mosaic Landscapes and Ecological Processes

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Interspecific competition for shared and limiting resources is widely thought to be one of the forces, perhaps even the main force, that has shaped biodiversity in the past and continues to shape it in the present. In the course of evolution, new taxa have replaced old ones (Simpson, 1949; Stanley, 1979; for a particular taxon, see e.g. Cambefort, 1991a), and although we remain largely ignorant about the actual mechanisms, competition is most likely involved. Natural invasions and human introductions of alien species have often led to a significant reduction in abundances (Elton, 1958) or complete elimination of native species (Greenway, 1967; Ebenhard, 1988), although how frequently aliens have competitively eliminated natives remains a matter of debate (e.g. Simber-loff, 1981, versus Herbold and Moyle, 1986). One likely reason why aliens do not routinely cause a rapid extinction of native species is the arena of their competition, a diverse landscape mosaic, which in various ways helps species to coexist — the subject matter of this chapter.

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    Lennart Hansson (Professor of Population Ecology) (Professor of Population Ecology)

  2. Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, K1S 5B6, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Lenore Fahrig (Associate Professor of Biology) & Gray Merriam (Professor of Biology) (Associate Professor of Biology) &  (Professor of Biology)

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Hanski, I. (1995). Effects of landscape pattern on competitive interactions. In: Hansson, L., Fahrig, L., Merriam, G. (eds) Mosaic Landscapes and Ecological Processes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0717-4_9

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