Table 1.

Integration's typical impacts on competitive (a) effect and (b) response.

(a) integration's typical effect on a species' ability to resist invasion
in a more productive (richer) patch		in less productive (poorer) patch
when patch resource supply ratios are similar	when patches are highly complementary	when patch resource supply ratios are similar	when patches are highly complementary
−	+	+	+

(b) integration's effect (if any) on a species' ability to invade
patches relatively poorer in the resource for which the resident competitor has a lower R*		patches relatively richer in the resource for which the resident competitor has a lower R*
+		−