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Phenotypic plasticity promotes species coexistence.
Nature ecology & evolution - 1 Sept 2022
Hess Cyrill, Levine Jonathan M, Turcotte Martin M, Hart Simon P
Abstract excerpt
Ecological explanations for species coexistence assume that species' traits, and therefore the differences between species, are fixed on short timescales. However, species' traits are not fixed, but can instead change rapidly as a consequence of phenotypic plasticity. Here we use a combined experimental-theoretical approach to demonstrate that plasticity in response to interspecific competition between two...
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