This occurs because plants over-proliferate roots (sensu 25) in order to pre-empt competitor resource supply, but when competitors are absent this over-proliferation is not advantageous.
"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.
In r/K selection theory, environmental conditions such as disturbance or high rates of predation are thought to favor individuals with rapid development rate and high fecundity, with a general trade-off in that they are weak competitors when resources become limiting [14].
In the Pacific, S. droebachiensis is embedded in a complex community that includes 2 4 congeners, some of which may act as competitors for resources.
The ecological community of fresh water stickleback is relatively simple, with no close heterospecific vertebrate competitors for resources (but see Gray et al. 2005).
Under conditions of high population density, species that overlap in their ecological niches may experience increased resource competition; thus, during these times infanticide could conceivably be used as a strategy to eliminate potential future competitors for resources or space.
The number of offspring produced by a female is determined by the number of competitors for resources within her home range (local density) and by the match between her visual properties and the environmental light color.
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.
