Field and experimental evidence for competition's role in phenotypic divergence

Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 257-271

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Character displacement; Directional selection; Disruptive selection; Divergent selection; Phenotypic plasticity; Resource polymorphism; Stabilizing selection

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DIVERGENCE; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLYMORPHISM; RESOURCE USE; TOAD; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TOAD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BUFONIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC SPECIATION;

ANURA; PELOBATIDAE; SPEA BOMBIFRONS;

EID: 33947142818     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2007.00034.x     Document Type: Article

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