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Observing character displacement from process to pattern in a novel vertebrate community.
Nature communications - 14 Nov 2024
Stroud James T, Giery Sean T, Heathcote Robert J P, Tiatragul Sarin, Yuan Michael L, Feeley Kenneth J, Losos Jonathan B
Abstract excerpt
Ecological character displacement, whereby shifts in resource use in the presence of competing species leads to adaptive evolutionary divergence, is widely considered an important process in community assembly and adaptive radiation. However, most evidence for character displacement has been inferred from macro-scale geographic or phylogenetic patterns; direct tests of the underlying hypothesis of divergent...
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