Field-based insights to the evolution of specialization: Plasticity and fitness across habitats in a specialist/generalist species pair

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 778-791

  Griffith, Timothy ^a   Sultan, Sonia E ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalization; Niche breadth; Phenotypic plasticity; Shade tolerance; Specialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890044387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.202     Document Type: Article

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