Complex species interactions lead to unpredictable outcomes in Plethodon

Herpetologica

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Deitloff, Jennifer ^a,c   Petersen, Jessica D ^a,b   Adams, Dean C ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character divergence; Competition; Competitive exclusion; Plethodon; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; AMPHIBIAN; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DIVERGENCE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MORPHOLOGY; NICHE PARTITIONING; RELATEDNESS; RESOURCE USE; SYMPATRY;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

PLETHODON; PLETHODON CINEREUS; PLETHODON ELECTROMORPHUS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 84873546969     PISSN: 00180831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-12-00032     Document Type: Article

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