Evolution of specialization and ecological character displacement of herbivores along a gradient of plant quality

Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 507-520

  Egas, Martijn ^a,b   Sabelis, Maurice W ^a   Dieckmann, Ulf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Adaptive radiation; Coevolutionary niche shift; Ecological character displacement; Foraging behavior; Herbivorous arthropods; Resource gradient

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; HOST SPECIFICITY;

ARTHROPODA;

EID: 15944369657     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2005.tb01011.x     Document Type: Article

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