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priority effect

Scope: community ecology

Papers: 1 | Mentions: 1

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 34 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on priority effect with 34 nodes and 115 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Beetles, Engelmann Spruce, Pekania pennanti, Colorado East River Valley.

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Competitive advantage afforded to early discoverers that arrive at and modify a resource first

Publications (1)

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Out of sight, out of mind: The role of carcass burial and maintenance in reducing competition in Nicrophorus investigator

2025

priority effect

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 34 entities)

Definition

Publications (1)

Out of sight, out of mind: The role of carcass burial and maintenance in reducing competition in Nicrophorus investigator

Related Concepts (7)

Land burial

Interspecies competition

Interference competition

biparental care

behavioral interference

volatile organic compounds

carcass maintenance behaviors

Frequently Associated Species

Engelmann Spruce

Nicrophorus investigator

Nicrophorus defodiens

Nicrophorus guttula

Peromyscus maniculatus

Coleoptera

Nicrophorus marginatus

Strix varia

Sus domesticus

Thanatophilus lapponicus