Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition

作者：Nelson G. Hairston, Frederick E. Smith, Lawrence B. Slobodkin · 发表于：The American Naturalist · 年份：1960 · DOI：10.1086/282146 · 被引用次数：3490 · 研究领域：Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies、Evolution and Paleontology Studies、Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

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.