Competition and phylogeny determine community structure in Müllerian co-mimics

Nature

Volumn 469, Issue 7328, 2011, Pages 84-89

  Alexandrou, Markos A ^a   Oliveira, Claudio ^b   Maillard, Marjorie ^a   McGill, Rona A R ^c   Newton, Jason ^c   Creer, Simon ^a   Taylor, Martin I ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); CONSERVATION GENETICS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; NICHE PARTITIONING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ALLOPATRY; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CATFISH; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; KNOWLEDGE; MORPHOLOGY; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE PARTITIONING;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BODY SIZE; CATFISHES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTATION; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

SILURIFORMES;

EID: 78650973877     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09660     Document Type: Article

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