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SUBMITTER: Rundle HD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC299857 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rundle Howard D HD Vamosi Steven M SM Schluter Dolph D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20031120 25
Ecological character displacement is common in nature but the mechanisms causing divergence are not well understood. The contributions of ecological interactions other than competition have received little attention. We conducted a pond experiment to explore the contribution of both competition and predation to character divergence in threespine stickleback species. We estimated the strength of divergent selection on a morphologically intermediate target population between competition treatments ...[more]