Intraspecific competition drives increased resource use diversity within a natural population

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1611, 2007, Pages 839-844

  Svanbäck, Richard ^a,c   Bolnick, Daniel I ^b  

^a Department of Zoology ^*  (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diversification; Gasterosteus aculeatus; Individual specialization; Intraspecific competition; Negative frequency dependence; Optimal foraging theory

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER DISPLACEMENT; COEXISTENCE; CONSPECIFIC; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEEDING ECOLOGY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREY AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE USE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TELEOST;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIODIVERSITY; COEVOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FISH; FORAGING; GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SMEGMAMORPHA;

GASTEROSTEUS ACULEATUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DENSITY; SMEGMAMORPHA;

EID: 34247265586     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0198     Document Type: Article

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