Declining interspecific competition during character displacement: Summoning the ghost of competition past

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 209-220

  Pritchard, John R ^a   Schluter, Dolph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Character displacement; Competition; Sticklebacks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001305798     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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