Evolution restricts the coexistence of specialists and generalists: The role of trade-off structure

American Naturalist

Volumn 163, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 518-531

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Evolution; Foraging behavior; Specialization; Temporal heterogeneity; Trade off structure

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; EVOLUTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENERALIST; SPECIALIST; TRADE-OFF;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 2442552886     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382599     Document Type: Article

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