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Ecological opportunity and phenotypic plasticity interact to promote character displacement and species coexistence.

Ecology - 1 Mar 2006

Pfennig David W, Rice Amber M, Martin Ryan A

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We investigated the roles of resource availability and phenotypic plasticity in promoting ecological character displacement (i.e., trait evolution stemming from resource competition between species). Because ecological character displacement generates new populations that differ in resource use, this process should only occur when exploitable resources are available. We tested this hypothesis in two species of...

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PMID: 16602305
DOI: 10.1890/05-0787

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