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dominance-discovery trade-off

Scope: community ecology
Papers: 2 | Mentions: 3

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Knowledge graph centered on dominance-discovery trade-off with 24 nodes and 42 connections. Top connected: pitfall trapping (Formicidae), NDVI, meta-analysis, Cariveau allometric conversion (Apidae), dominance hierarchy.

Definition

The hypothesis that species that are competitively dominant have reduced ability to discover new resources quickly

Related Terms (2)

competition-colonization trade-offdominance-discovery trade-off

Publications (2)

article

Different aspects of dominance are not equivalent when testing for trade-offs in ant communities

2025Ecology and Evolutioncentral
article

Testing trade-offs and the dominance–impoverishment rule among ant communities

2020Journal of Biogeographytested

Related Concepts (10)

ecological dominance

measurement2 shared papers

dominance hierarchy

phenomenon2 shared papers

dominance-generalism trade-off

hypothesis1 shared paper

resource monopolization

measurement1 shared paper

meta-analysis

methodology1 shared paper

behavioral dominance

measurement1 shared paper

numerical dominance

measurement1 shared paper

discovery ability

measurement1 shared paper

numerical dominance

measurement1 shared paper

NDVI

metric1 shared paper