Interspecific competition among Hawaiian forest birds
- Author:
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Mountainspring, Stephen, Scott, J. Michael
- Title:
- Interspecific competition among Hawaiian forest birds
- Periodical:
- Ecological Monographs
- Year:
- 1985
- Volume:
- 55
- Pages:
- 219-239
- Subject:
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Competition
Exotic species
Habitat response
Interspecific competition
Passerine birds
Taxon cycle
- Summary:
- The effect of inter-specific competition on the geographic and landscape distribution of species has proved to be difficult to demonstrate in natural populations as is the case among Hawaiian forest birds. Even though two scientists regarded competition as pervasive, others felt that it occurred rarely with weather, predation, and spatial heterogeneity, exerting a greater influence on species response. It was also suggested that competition was uncommon in a varying environment since populations would seldom be at carrying capacity and resources were often superabundant. As a result, the objective of this study was to determine whether inter-specific competition modified local geographic distribution, after taking into account the effect of habitat structure.
- Label:
- Birds - General
- URL:
- http://cletus.uhh.hawaii.edu:2074/10.2307/1942558
- Collection:
- Periodicals