Measuring individual-level resource specialization

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2936-2941

  Bolnick, Daniel I ^a   Yang, Louie H ^a   Fordyce, James A ^a   Davis, Jeremy M ^a   Svanbäck, Richard ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive variation; Diet analysis; Gut contents; Individual specialization; Niche variation; Proportional similarity; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

INTRAPOPULATION VARIATION; NICHE PARTITIONING; RESOURCE USE; SPECIALIST; SPECIALIZATION;

EID: 0012775617     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2936:MILRS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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