A core driving force behind this behavior is the heterogeneity of resources, as each competitor holds unique resources that are best utilized in combination with other competitors' resources.
He also picked up lesser-known small caps like Iridium Communications, a satellite communications network company which trades at about a third the multiple of its competitors, and Resource America, a small equipment leasing company that is poised to do well as companies looking to expand post-recession opt to lease equipment like fax machines and computers rather than buy them.
At high density, the partner species becomes a competitor for resources needed by both species.
Specifically, that amino acid nutrition might not necessarily be an adaptation to enhance nitrogen uptake per se, but rather it might be an adaptation to enhance nitrogen uptake relative to potential competitors through resource partitioning.
Focus common vole mothers (Microtus arvalis) were either caged with a greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) as a potential nest predator, with an herbivorous field vole (Microtus agrestis) as a heterospecific resource competitor, or with a conspecific resource competitor.
It's better than competitors' similar resources.
We found that aggression increased as the competitor-to-resource ratio increased.
Even more critically, Americans can no longer count on abundant supplies of cheap fossil fuels, because developing nations like China and India are emerging as major competitors for resources.
"Our competitors have resources to make available six-figure start-up packages for relatively junior staff; we can only do that, and at a stretch, for professorial staff," a Cambridge spokesman said.
The Time Warner Cable acquisition would further expand the company's reach -- Comcast would have about a third of broadband subscribers and 30 million pay TV subscribers in the U.S. A Comcast-Time Warner could behemoth couse use its muscle -- not unlike Standard Oil -- to wield power over related industries, potentially starving competitors of resources, antitrust experts said.
