Evolution of niche width and adaptive diversification

Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2599-2612

  Ackermann, Martin ^a,c   Doebeli, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Competition; Diversification; Fitness minimum; Frequency dependent selection; Niche width; Sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EVOLUTION; NICHE BREADTH; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

EID: 11444251038     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01614.x     Document Type: Article

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