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Functional Ecology 2003 17 , 276–287 ? 2003 British Ecological Society 276 Blackwell Science, LtdForum Testing performance rank reversals among coexisting species: crossover point irradiance analysis by Sack Grubb (2001) and alternatives ???????????? Two potentially competing species can coexist when their relative fitness ranks reverse at different points in a spatially or temporally heterogeneous landscape (Chesson 1985). Trade-offs between components of fitness, such as between survival and growth rates, or between fecundity and survival, may lead to rank reversals