Is competition needed for ecological character displacement? Does displacement decrease competition?
Interspecific competition for resources is generally considered to be the selective force driving ecological character displacement, and displacement is assumed to reduce competition. Skeptics of the ...
Vol. 156, No. S4, SPECIES INTERACTIONS AND ADAPTIVE RADIATION A Symposium Organized by Dolph Schluter (October 2000), pp. S17-S34 (18 pages) abstract: We describe a phylogenetic and spatial approach ...
We have shown that uncorrected patterns of phenotypic variation are confounded by biases in the time available for trait differences to evolve, and exaggerate the role of character displacement at ...
A large new study of ovenbird lineages questions the extent to which competing species push each other to evolve. In 1982, a few large ground finches took up residence on the tiny island of Daphne ...
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