Size asymmetry of resource competition and the structure of plant communities: Commentary on DeMalach et al. 2016
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F16%3A10329023" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/16:10329023 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12591" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12591</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12591" target="_blank" >10.1111/1365-2745.12591</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Size asymmetry of resource competition and the structure of plant communities: Commentary on DeMalach et al. 2016
Original language description
The hump-back relationship between diversity and productivity is one of the well-known patterns in ecology that have defied unequivocal explanation (Mittelbach et al. 2001; Sımova, Li & Storch 2013). While it has often been argued that the decline of species richness under high productivity is due to more intense competition, it has never been made fully clear why extinction under high productivity should be more likely compared to low productivity. DeMalach et al. (2016) present a simple and elegant explanation: it is due to asymmetry in competition for light. Competitive asymmetry means that resources (light in this case) are not divided among competing individuals in proportions corresponding to the size of their resource-acquiring organs, but a bigger individual gets disproportionately more. It means that the bigger individual gets more also in relative terms, that is per unit biomass.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EF - Botany
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Ecology
ISSN
0022-0477
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
104
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
2
Pages from-to
911-912
UT code for WoS article
000379015400002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84974708390