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Does Competition Drive Community Structure? An Analysis Of Grasshopper Competition, H. Joseph Lachowski
Does Competition Drive Community Structure? An Analysis Of Grasshopper Competition, H. Joseph Lachowski
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lnterspecific competition has been broadly defined as a negative-negative relationship between species that share a limiting resource. The impact of competition on ecological communities is a widely debated topic (Schoener 1982). Thus community structure is very complex and, in addition to competition, can be influenced by many factors, including climate, disease, parasites, and predation (Hairston et al. 1960; Stower & Greathead 1969; Wiens 1977). The importance of competition depends upon the importance of other processes (Welden & Slauson 1986).