Experimentally assessing the relative importance of predation and competition as agents of selection

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7298, 2010, Pages 613-616

  Calsbeek, Ryan ^a   Cox, Robert M ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY SIZE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; PERCHING BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION;

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIZARD; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; BAHAMAS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; EXTREMITIES; GEOGRAPHY; LIZARDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RUNNING; SELECTION, GENETIC; SNAKES; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANOLIS; ANOLIS SAGREI; AVES; SQUAMATA;

EID: 77953229491     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09020     Document Type: Article

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