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Aggregate competition #15

Closed richfitz closed 9 years ago

richfitz commented 9 years ago

Rather than think of competition as 1-on-1, or as a fixed aspect of a species (which is not going to be common with the sorts of frequency dependent competition that all the models we've looked at show), think about how to show the "overall" competition exerted by a community on an individual, and v.v.

@markwestoby and I talked about this with respect to communities reorganising after glacial cycles: even though the identities of the community change, the overall competitive effects might not change that much: plants are still shading each other, etc.

richfitz commented 9 years ago

Basically - are there different incompatible ways of thinking about kernels that we just conflate?

dfalster commented 9 years ago

see relevant section in discussion https://github.com/richfitz/competition-kernels/blob/4d73a772ce5d8539bbecc520db2e9b1497ca76f4/ms/competition-kernels.tex#L525