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Beyond Pairwise Interactions: Multispecies Character Displacement in Mexican Freshwater Fish Communities.
The American naturalist - 1 Jun 2020
Roth-Monzón Andrea J, Belk Mark C, Zúñiga-Vega J Jaime, Johnson Jerald B
Abstract excerpt
Competition has long been recognized as a central force in shaping evolution, particularly through character displacement. Yet research on character displacement is biased, as it has focused almost exclusively on pairs of interacting species while ignoring multispecies interactions. Communities are seldom so simple that only pairs of species interact, and it is not clear whether inferences from pairwise...
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