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Rapid evolution in response to introduced predators I: rates and patterns of morphological and life-history trait divergence.
BMC evolutionary biology - 14 Feb 2007
Fisk Debra L, Latta Leigh C, Knapp Roland A, Pfrender Michael E
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BACKGROUND: Introduced species can have profound effects on native species, communities, and ecosystems, and have caused extinctions or declines in native species globally. We examined the evolutionary response of native zooplankton populations to the introduction of non-native salmonids in alpine lakes in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. We compared morphological and life-history traits in populations of...
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