Adaptive Dynamics of Competition for Nutritionally Complementary Resources: Character Convergence, Displacement, and Parallelism

American Naturalist

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 501-514

  Vasseur, David A ^a   Fox, Jeremy W ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive dynamics; Character convergence; Coexistence; Competition; Complementary resources; Stoichiometry

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; COEXISTENCE; COMPLEMENTARITY; FITNESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESOURCE USE; STOICHIOMETRY; SYMPATRY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80053293890     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661896     Document Type: Article

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