Will sympatric speciation fail due to stochastic competitive exclusion?

American Naturalist

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 572-578

  Johansson, Jacob ^a   Ripa, Jörgen ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Competitive exclusion; Extinction risk; Stochastic population dynamics; Sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MODELS, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 33750065722     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507996     Document Type: Article

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