Experimental evidence that competition between stickleback species favours adaptive character divergence

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 264-272

  Gray, Suzanne M ^a   Robinson, Beren W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive divergence; Culaea inconstans; Ecological character displacement; Field experiment; Frequency dependent selection; Interspecific competition; Pungitius pungitius

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; DIVERGENCE; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION;

CULAEA INCONSTANS; PUNGITIUS PUNGITIUS;

EID: 0036129751     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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