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Table 1 Summary of the results from the trait and community experiments

From: The relative importance of competition and predation in environment characterized by resource pulses – an experimental test with a microbial community

 

Predator absent

Predator present

Resource level

Best competitive ability

Dominant species in the community experiment

Best grazing resistance

Dominant species in the community experiment

Low

N. c

N. c

B. c / S. m

N. c

Intermediate

N. c

N. c

B. c / N. c

B. c

High

S. m

N. c

B. c / N. c

B. c

  1. Species codes: B. cereus (B. c), S. marcescens (S. m) and N. capsulatum (N. c).
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BMC Ecology

ISSN: 1472-6785

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