The ecology of individuals: Incidence and implications of individual specialization

American Naturalist

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-28

  Bolnick, Daniel I ^a   Svanbäck, Richard ^b,c   Fordyce, James A ^a   Yang, Louie H ^a   Davis, Jeremy M ^a   Hulsey, C Darrin ^a   Forister, Matthew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive variation; Frequency dependence; Individual ecology; Individual specialization; Niche variation hypothesis; Niche width; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; NICHE; NICHE PARTITIONING; SPECIALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0346664358     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/343878     Document Type: Article

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