Adaptive diversification and niche packing on rugged fitness landscapes.

Abstract excerpt

Explaining the emergence of diversity and the coexistence of competing types has long been one of the main goals of ecological theory. Rugged fitness landscapes have often been used to explain diversity through the presence of local peaks, or adaptive zones, in the fitness landscape acting as available niches for different species. Alternatively, niche-packing and theories based on limiting similarity describe...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Biological Evolution
• Share to Genetic Fitness
• Share to Phenotype