Ecological opportunity and levels of morphological variance within freshwater stickleback populations

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 297-308

  Nosil, P ^a   Reimchen, T E ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Character release; Competition; Defence morphology; Gasterosteus; Natural selection; Niche availability; Niche width; Predation; Trait variance

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; NICHE; PREDATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

GASTEROSTEUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 27744495774     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00517.x     Document Type: Article

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