Article
Local adaptation when competition depends on phenotypic similarity.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2013
Burgess Scott C, Waples Robin S, Baskett Marissa L
Abstract excerpt
Recent work incorporating demographic-genetic interactions indicates the importance of population size, gene flow, and selection in influencing local adaptation. This work typically assumes that density-dependent survival affects individuals equally, but individuals in natural population rarely compete equally. Among-individual differences in resource use generate stronger competition between more similar...
Topics
- Adaptation, Biological
- Competitive Behavior
- Computer Simulation
- Gene Flow
- Genetics, Population
- Models, Genetic
- Phenotype
- Population Density
- Selection, Genetic