When can competition for resources lead to ecological equivalence?

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 843-854

  TerHorst, Casey P ^a,b   Miller, Thomas E ^a   Powell, Eric ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character displacement; Competitive exclusion; Evolution; Evolvability; Extinction; Functional groups; Neutral theory; Niche partitioning; Theoretical

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955893210     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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