Apparent signal of competition limiting diversification after ecological transitions from marine to freshwater habitats

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 822-830

  Betancur R , Ricardo ^a   Ortí, Guillermo ^a   Stein, Ariel M ^a   Marceniuk, Alexandre P ^b   Alexander Pyron, R ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Ariidae; Disparification; Diversification; Ecological opportunity; Freshwaters; Habitat transitions; Marine; Morphological evolution; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; SEA WATER;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DISPERSAL; FISH; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT TYPE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE; PHYLOGENY; SIGNAL;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CATFISH; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CATFISHES; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; NEW GUINEA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAWATER;

AUSTRALIA; NEW GUINEA;

ARIIDAE;

EID: 84863724890     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01802.x     Document Type: Article

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