Competition and the effect of spatial resource heterogeneity on evolutionary diversification

American Naturalist

Volumn 155, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 790-803

  Day, Troy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Character displacement; Competition; Density dependent selection; Frequency dependent selection; Lotka Volterra; Resource exploitation

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HETEROGENEITY; SELECTION;

EID: 0034121242     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/303356     Document Type: Article

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