Review Article

The Fluctuation Niche in Plants

Figure 1

Fluctuation environments (a) allow alternate dominance (considered as growth rate) of different species A and B (b), while constant environments may lead to a permanent higher growth rate of a given species, allowing competitive exclusion. In the figure, constant resource availability around 4 (logarithm scaled) represents a permanent higher growth of species B.
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