Life-history variation, environmental fluctuations and competition in ecologically similar species: modeling the case of rotifers

Competition for resources can lead to species exclusion. However, this exclusion may be avoided if species show differential adaptation to physical environment. Empirical studies on competition are difficult when species are phylogenetically close and have complex life cycles. This is the case of B. plicatilis and B. manjavacas, two cryptic rotifer species differing in their salinity niches and in life-history traits related to sex and diapause....