Interspecific competition restricts species to disturbances where their growth efficiency is highest

Evidence

A woody plant with a maximum growth efficiency for a particular combination of resources may well have a higher rate of growth in a larger disturbance because of an increase in the availability of one or more of those resources. But if the overall growth efficiency is lower, there is a greater chance that there is another species with physiological and morphological traits that are more efficient in exploiting the increased concentration of resources in the larger disturbance. — S. T. A. Pickett and P. S. White, eds., The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and…, 1332

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Grass grows faster when grazed, a mutualism with the grazers — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 576