Asymmetric Competition Among Distant Taxa

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For purposes of theoretical analysis, competition between distantly related taxa is interpreted as asymmetric competition. Several kinds of situations are examined: A predator competes with one of its prey species for a second resource; competitors utilize successive stages in the life cycles of prey; one predator facilitates the resource utilization of its competitor; competitors differ in their vulnerability to predation. Methods of signed digraphs (loop analysis) and statistics over time are used to predict the qualitative consequences of the different interaction patterns.

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