Character Displacement: Ecological And Reproductive Responses To A Common Evolutionary Problem
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Character displacement: ecological and reproductive responses to a common evolutionary problem.
Character displacement is the process by which traits evolve in response to selection to lessen resource competition or reproductive interactions between species. Although character displacement has long been viewed as an important mechanism for enabling closely related species to coexist, the causes and consequences of character displacement have not been fully explored. Moreover, character di...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Quarterly Review of Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0033-5770,1539-7718
DOI: 10.1086/605079