Niche expansion: Coupled evolutionary branching of niche position and width

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 675-695

  Ito, Hiroshi C ^a   Shimada, Masakazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Evolutionary branching; Niche width; Resource competition; Resource utilization pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347248331     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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