Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition
1960/11/01 by Nelson G. Hairston, Frederick E. Smith, Lawrence B. Slobodkin · 59 citations
Environmental Science · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
paper · doi:10.1086/282146
Abstract
In summary, then, our general conclusions are: (1) Populations of producers, carnivores, and decomposers are limited by their respective resources in the classical density-dependent fashion. (2) Interspecific competition must necessarily exist among the members of each of these three trophic levels. (3) Herbivores are seldom food-limited, appear most often to be predator-limited, and therefore are not likely to compete for common resources.
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