Experimental evidence that evolutionary relatedness does not affect the ecological mechanisms of coexistence in freshwater green algae

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1373-1381

  Narwani, Anita ^a   Alexandrou, Markos A ^b   Oakley, Todd H ^b   Carroll, Ian T ^c   Cardinale, Bradley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Coexistence; Community phylogenetics; Competition; Evolutionary ecology; Niche differences; Phytoplankton; Relative fitness differences

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA;

BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY PHYLOGENETICS; COMPETITION; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY; GENETICS; GREEN ALGA; LAKE; LETTER; NICHE DIFFERENCES; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RELATIVE FITNESS DIFFERENCES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY PHYLOGENETICS; COMPETITION; EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY; NICHE DIFFERENCES; PHYTOPLANKTON; RELATIVE FITNESS DIFFERENCES;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHLOROPHYTA; ECOSYSTEM; LAKES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84885948475     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12182     Document Type: Article

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