MacArthur's consumer-resource model

Peter Chesson

doi:10.1016/0040-5809(90)90025-Q

MacArthur's consumer-resource model

Peter Chesson

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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MacArthur's consumer-resource model is reviewed and new ways of understanding it are presented. Statistical measures of association between the utilization functions of different species are developed to show how coexistence conditions can be expressed in simple and understandable ways without the need to introduce strong symmetry assumptions. It is hoped that this new analysis will encourage both the use of the model in its full form without special simplifying assumptions, and the development of competition models of similar biological richness but different basic assumptions.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	26-38
Number of pages	13
Journal	Theoretical Population Biology
Volume	37
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-5809(90)90025-Q
State	Published - Feb 1990

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Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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