Schoener's model and Drosophila competition.

Schoener (1973) has recently discussed a simple model of growth and competition. It is one that we did not include in the list of models we (Ayala, Gilpin and Ehrenfeld, 1973; Gilpin and Ayala, 1973), fitted to data on interspecies competition between Drosophila willistoni and D. pseudoobscura. Since we were striving there for completeness, we should like in this note to treat Schoener’s model in the spirit of our earlier work. Schoener’s single-species growth model is:

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[2]  T. Schoener,et al.  Competition and the form of habitat shift. , 1974, Theoretical population biology.

[3]  M E Gilpin,et al.  Competition between species: theoretical models and experimental tests. , 1973, Theoretical population biology.

[4]  M. Gilpin,et al.  Global models of growth and competition. , 1973, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.