Ecological opportunity and phenotypic plasticity interact to promote character displacement and species coexistence

Ecology

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 769-779

  Pfennig, David W ^a   Rice, Amber M ^a   Martin, Ryan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Biogeography; Competition; Competitive exclusion; Local adaptation; Resource polymorphism

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIOGEOGRAPHY; CARNIVORE; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; ECOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TOAD;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MALE; PENAEIDAE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANURA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; PENAEIDAE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PELOBATIDAE; SPEA BOMBIFRONS;

EID: 33646132044     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-0787     Document Type: Article

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