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| Title |
Mutual interference is common and mostly intermediate in magnitude
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, January 2011
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6785-11-1 |
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| Authors |
John P DeLong, David A Vasseur |
| Abstract |
Interference competition occurs when access to resources is negatively affected by the presence of other individuals. Within a species or population, this is known as mutual interference, and it is often modelled with a scaling exponent, m, on the number of predators. Originally, mutual interference was thought to vary along a continuum from prey dependence (no interference; m = 0) to ratio dependence (m = -1), but a debate in the 1990's and early 2000's focused on whether prey or ratio dependence was the better simplification. Some have argued more recently that mutual interference is likely to be mostly intermediate (that is, between prey and ratio dependence), but this possibility has not been evaluated empirically. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 48 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2 | 4% |
| United States | 2 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Argentina | 1 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 41 | 85% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 14 | 29% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 6% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 6 | 13% |
| Unknown | 6 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 28 | 58% |
| Environmental Science | 7 | 15% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 4% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 10 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 October 2012.
All research outputs
#6,440,242
of 25,374,917 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#1,407
of 3,714 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#44,427
of 190,888 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ecology and Evolution
#21
of 46 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,917 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,714 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its peers.
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