Ecological and community-wide character displacement: The next generation

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 875-894

  Dayan, Tamar ^a   Simberloff, Daniel ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Community structure; Community wide character displacement; Competition; Ecological character displacement; Functional morphology; Phylogenetic analyses; Resource partitioning; Species assortment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; NICHE PARTITIONING;

EID: 22544470624     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00791.x     Document Type: Review

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