Niche breadth and resource partitioning
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T. D. Paine; M. C. Birch; P. Ε vihra
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Article
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1981
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Springer-Verlag
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English
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Standing loblolly pines in southeastern North America are colonized by four sympatric species of bark beetles: Dendroctonus frontalis (Zimm.), Ips calligraphus (Germ.), I. grandicollis (Eichh.) and I. avulsus (Eichh.). The beetles compete for the limited amount of phloem tissue used as a site for re