Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in community and ecosystem ecology: Interactions between the ecological theatre and the evolutionary play

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1523, 2009, Pages 1629-1640

  Post, David M ^a   Palkovacs, Eric P ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Eco evolutionary feedbacks; Ecosystem ecology; Evolution; Intraspecific variation; Niche construction

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALGAE; ALOSA PSEUDOHARENGUS; AVES; POECILIA RETICULATA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 65949113564     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0012     Document Type: Article

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