Competitive exclusion over broad spatial extents is a slow process evidence and implications for species distribution modeling

• Published in: Ecography (Copenhagen) Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 305 - 313
• Main Author: Yackulic, Charles B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Nordic Society Oikos 01.02.2017; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: biogeography; Competition; competitive exclusion; Ecologists; environmental factors; extinction; paleoecology; prediction; Review & synthesis

There is considerable debate about the role of competition in shaping species distributions over broad spatial extents. This debate has practical implications because predicting changes in species’ geographic ranges in response to ongoing environmental change would be simpler if competition could be...