Local adaptation along a continuous coastline: Prey recruitment drives differentiation in a predatory snail

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 891-901

  Sanford, Eric ^a,b   Worth, David J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottom up effects; Coastal oceanography; Divergent; Geographic variation; Larval recruitment; Local adaptation; Mytilus; Natural selection; Nucella; Reciprocal transfer experiment; Rocky intertidal communities

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; COASTAL ZONE; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; PREY PREFERENCE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SNAIL;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; MYTILUS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SNAIL; THORACICA; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; MYTILUS; OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SNAILS; THORACICA;

CALIFORNIA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

BALANIDAE; BALANUS GLANDULA; GASTROPODA; MYTILUS; MYTILUS CALIFORNIANUS; MYTILUS EDULIS; MYTILUS TROSSULUS; NUCELLA; NUCELLA CANALICULATA;

EID: 77950441814     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0536.1     Document Type: Article

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