Size patterns among competitors: ecological character displacement and character release in mammals, with special reference to island populations

Mammal Review

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 99-124

  Dayan, Tamar ^a   Simberloff, Daniel ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODYSIZE; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; ISLAND POPULATION; MAMMAL;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031715815     PISSN: 03051838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2907.1998.00029.x     Document Type: Article

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