Ecological Combining Ability and Competitive Combining Ability in Plants: Toward a General Evolutionary Theory of Coexistence in Systems of Competition

Population Biology of Plants

1977 • 9,036 citations

Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance

1973 • 4,709 citations

THE MAINTENANCE OF SPECIES‐RICHNESS IN PLANT COMMUNITIES: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE REGENERATION NICHE

1977 • 4,340 citations

The Limiting Similarity, Convergence, and Divergence of Coexisting Species

1967 • 4,255 citations

Resource Partitioning in Ecological Communities

1974 • 3,872 citations

BUTTERFLIES AND PLANTS: A STUDY IN COEVOLUTION

1964 • 3,741 citations

Evolution in Changing Environments

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A General Hypothesis of Species Diversity

1979 • 3,369 citations

The struggle for existence

1934 • 2,430 citations

Competitive Exclusion in Herbaceous Vegetation

1973 • 2,385 citations

GRADIENT ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION*

1967 • 1,677 citations

Diversity and the Coevolution of Competitors, or the Ghost of Competition Past

1980 • 1,512 citations

On the Measurement of Niche Breadth and Overlap

1971 • 1,451 citations

Resource Competition between Plankton Algae: An Experimental and Theoretical Approach

1977 • 1,233 citations

Niche Overlap and Diffuse Competition

1974 • 1,104 citations

Principles of Plant Breeding

1961 • 1,102 citations

The Leaching of Substances from Plants

1970 • 1,090 citations

Principles of Plant Breeding

1966 • 1,032 citations

CIRCULAR CAUSAL SYSTEMS IN ECOLOGY

1948 • 933 citations

COEVOLUTION OF MUTUALISM BETWEEN ANTS AND ACACIAS IN CENTRAL AMERICA

1966 • 873 citations

Competition Among Crop and Pasture Plants

1963 • 715 citations

Competition and the Structure of Bird Communities

1975 • 700 citations

Niche Overlap as a Function of Environmental Variability

1972 • 681 citations

Convergent and divergent character displacement

1972 • 665 citations

Growth and Regulation of Animal Populations

1963 • 596 citations

Plant Defense Guilds

1976 • 577 citations

The Controversy over Interspecific Competition

1982 • 576 citations

Pattern and Process in Competition

1967 • 574 citations

Plant communities: a textbook of plant synecology.

1968 • 558 citations

Mimicry in plants and animals

1968 • 542 citations

Predator-Mediated Coexistence: A Nonequilibrium Model

1978 • 526 citations

Competition for Hummingbird Pollination and Sequential Flowering in Two Colorado Wildflowers

1978 • 521 citations

Two Decades of Homage to Santa Rosalia: Toward a General Theory of Diversity

1981 • 494 citations

Interspecies Competition in Populations of Trilobium confusum Duval and Trilobium castaneum Herbst

1948 • 460 citations

Differential Resource Utilization by the Sexes of Dioecious Plants

1976 • 458 citations

Experimental Studies of Interspecies Competition II. Temperature, Humidity, and Competition in Two Species of Tribolium

1954 • 453 citations

Partitioning of Resources and the Outcome of Interspecific Competition: A Model and Some General Considerations

1973 • 443 citations

Resource partitioning among competing species—A coevolutionary approach

1976 • 420 citations

Competition for Pollinators between Simultaneously Flowering Species

1970 • 406 citations

Ecological Character Displacement

1980 • 405 citations

Species Diversity and Insect Population Outbreaks

1961 • 396 citations

Sexuality and the Components of Environmental Uncertainty: Clues from Geographic Parthenogenesis in Terrestrial Animals

1978 • 392 citations

Coevolution of Animals and Plants.

1977 • 363 citations

THE EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY OF CLOSELY RELATED SPECIES LIVING IN THE SAME AREA

1961 • 339 citations

Experimental Studies of the Niche

1975 • 338 citations

The Coevolution and Stability of Competing Species

1976 • 336 citations

Non-Equilibrium Coexistence of Plants

1980 • 333 citations

Bracken Versus Heather, A Study in Plant Sociology

1955 • 308 citations

Niche Shifts and the Rediscovery of Interspecific Competition

1978 • 307 citations

Competition between plants of different initial seed sizes in swards of subterranean clover (Trifolium subterraneum L.) with particular reference to leaf area and the light microclimate

1958 • 299 citations

Ecological Relationships of Co-Occurring Goldenrods (Solidago: Compositae)

1976 • 289 citations

Resource Partitioning and Competition within a Guild of Fugitive Prairie Plants

1977 • 257 citations

Reproductive Strategies and the Co-occurrence of Climax Tree Species

1975 • 242 citations

Underground Niche Separation in Successional Plants

1976 • 240 citations

The Growth, Distribution and Neighbour Relationships of Trifolium Repens in a Permanent Pasture: I. Ordination, Pattern and Contact

1979 • 230 citations

Niche Partitioning between Sexes of Dioecious Plants

1981 • 212 citations

Space-Time Structure of the Environment and the Survival of Parasite-Host Systems

1963 • 212 citations

The Competitive Displacement and Coexistence Principles

1966 • 207 citations

Resource Division in an Understory Herb Community: Responses to Temporal and Microtopographic Gradients

1976 • 198 citations

Alternation and Coexistence of Tree Species

1977 • 191 citations

Competition between plant populations with different rooting depths

1979 • 182 citations

Effects of Stand Composition on Insect Visitation in Two-Species Mixtures of Hieracium

1978 • 176 citations

POLLEN ALLELOPATHY—A NEW PHENOMENON

1980 • 176 citations

THE GROWTH, DISTRIBUTION AND NEIGHBOUR RELATIONSHIPS OF TRIFOLIUM REPENS IN A PERMANENT PASTURE

1979 • 172 citations

Competition and Coexistence in a North Carolina Grassland: III. Mixtures of Component Species

1982 • 154 citations

Niche differentiation between two rhizomatous plant species: Typha latifolia and Typha angustifolia

1982 • 153 citations

The Evolutionary Consequences of Interspecific Competition

1982 • 142 citations

Niche: Theory and Application

1977 • 134 citations

Competition and Spacing in Plant Communities: The Arizona Upland Association

1977 • 133 citations

The Input from Population Genetics: "The New Ecological Genetics"

1976 • 129 citations

Evolution of diversity in plant communities.

1969 • 128 citations

Studies in the Dynamics of Plant Populations: III. The Influence of Associated Species on Populations of Rumex Acetosa L. and R. Acetosella L. in Grassland

1970 • 122 citations

Competition theory, evolution, and the concept of an ecological niche

1982 • 121 citations

Establishment, aggression, and cohabitation in weedy species.

1965 • 121 citations

Intrinsic Rate of Increase, Saturation Density, and Competitive Ability. II. The Evolution of Competitive Ability

1974 • 117 citations

Competition and Coexistence of Similar Species

1979 • 116 citations

Influence of Soil Heterogeneity on the Coexistence of Grassland Species

1982 • 112 citations

Density-Dependent Selection and Character Displacement

1974 • 112 citations

Coexistence resulting from an alternation of density dependent and density independent growth

1974 • 102 citations

A Mathematical Model of Coevolving Populations

1977 • 99 citations

Analysis of the nature of interference between plants of different species. I. Concepts and extension of the de Wit analysis to examine effects

1974 • 99 citations

EVOLUTION UNDER INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION: FIELD EXPERIMENTS ON TERRESTRIAL SALAMANDERS

1980 • 98 citations

EVOLUTION OF THE PREDATOR ISOCLINE

1973 • 97 citations

A Theoretical Approach to Interspecific Competition in Phytoplankton Communities

1973 • 96 citations

Competitive relationships of some bog ericads for major insect pollinators

1975 • 95 citations

The Paradox of the Plankton: An Equilibrium Hypothesis

1975 • 94 citations

Selection, Spatial Distribution, and the Coexistence of Competing Fly Species

1965 • 91 citations

On the Relative Advantages of Cross-and Self-Fertilization

1976 • 91 citations

Interspecific Competition and Species' Distributions: The Ghosts of Theories and Data Past

1981 • 89 citations

MICRO‐SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY AND SEEDLING DEMOGRAPHY IN SPECIES‐RICH GRASSLAND

1981 • 86 citations

Divergence of Two Co‐Occurring Successional Annuals on a Soil Moisture Gradient

1976 • 85 citations

An organism-centered approach to some community and ecosystem concepts

1981 • 78 citations

Herbage reponse to tree and shrub thinning in Eucalyptus populnea shrub woodlands

1972 • 74 citations

Competition for Dispersal in Ant-Dispersed Plants

1981 • 67 citations

Physiological Ecology of Three Codominant Successional Annuals

1975 • 63 citations

Plant Competition Mediated by Host-Specific Parasites-a Simple Model

1972 • 59 citations

Competition and species diversity.

1969 • 58 citations

The Biological Equipment of Species in Relation to Competition

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Theory for Coexistence of Species Differing in Regeneration Properties

1979 • 56 citations

The Effects of Plant Litter on Germination in Teasel, Dipsacus sylvestris Huds

1975 • 53 citations

Competition and coexistence of species

1982 • 52 citations

Selection and Interspecific Competition

1977 • 48 citations

Competition Between Drosophila Melanogaster and Drosophila Simulans

1952 • 42 citations

Gause's Hypothesis: An Examination

1952 • 42 citations

Calluna and its Associated Species: Some Aspects of Co-Existence in Communities

1978 • 41 citations

The Comparative Biology of Closely Related Species: VI. ANALYSIS OF THE GROWTH OFTRIFOLIUM REPENSANDT. FRAGIFERUMIN PURE AND MIXED POPULATIONS

1963 • 40 citations

Competition and co‐operation

1975 • 39 citations

Competition and Coexistence: Three Annual Grass Species

1979 • 38 citations

Food-Gathering Behaviour of Honey, Bumble, and Leaf-Cutter Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in Alberta

1961 • 36 citations

Niche differentiation and maintenance of genetic identity in cohabiting Eucalyptus species

1979 • 36 citations

Selection in Contexts of Interspecific Competition

1974 • 36 citations

Interaction between rice varieties

1960 • 33 citations

Niche specification and competition modeling

1969 • 33 citations

Reversal of Dominance in Competing Species of Drosophila

1966 • 32 citations

Cohabitation and Relative Abundance of Two Species of Wild Oats

1967 • 30 citations

Niche Shape and Genetic Aspects of Character Displacement

1974 • 29 citations

Competition: A Theory Based on Realistic, General Equations of Population Growth

1974 • 29 citations

On the Covariance of the Community Matrix

1972 • 27 citations

Grassland species can influence the abundance of microbes on each other's roots

1974 • 25 citations

Ecology of the Pembrokeshire Islands: II. Skokholm, Environment and Vegetation

1954 • 25 citations

Increased or Decreased Separation of Flowering Times? The Joint Effect of Competition for Space and Pollination in Plants

1980 • 18 citations

Niche, habitat, and related ecological concepts

1975 • 17 citations

Pasture patterns and associated soil water in partially cleared woodland

1967 • 17 citations

Seasonal Changes in Competitive Ability of Contrasting Populations of Dactylis glomerata

1982 • 11 citations

Coevolution of animals and plants : Symposium V, First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, Colorado, August, 1973

1975 • 11 citations

Induced Sterility as a Factor in the Competition between Barley Varieties

1968 • 9 citations

Interactions and coexistence of species in pasture community evolution

1983 • 4 citations