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When sources become sinks: migrational meltdown in heterogeneous habitats.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Aug 2001
Ronce O, Kirkpatrick M
Abstract excerpt
We consider the evolution of ecological specialization in a landscape with two discrete habitat types connected by migration, for example, a plant-insect system with two plant hosts. Using a quantitative genetic approach. we study the joint evolution of a quantitative character determining performance in each habitat together with the changes in the population density. We find that specialization on a single...
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