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gleaner-opportunist trade-off: a standalone construct

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Biological oceanography

a trade-off between phytoplankton that grow well at low resource levels and those that grow fast when resources pulse, allowing coexistence under fluctuation.

In biological oceanography, gleaner-opportunist trade-off refers to a trade-off between phytoplankton that grow well at low resource levels and those that grow fast when resources pulse, allowing coexistence under fluctuation. This meaning comes from Grover (1991) in The American Naturalist.[1]

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coexistence3 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs fluctuation4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs pulse3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

Grover, J. P. (1991). Resource Competition in a Variable Environment: Phytoplankton Growing According to the Variable-Internal-Stores Model. The American Naturalist, 138(4), 811-835. https://doi.org/10.1086/285254

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