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SUBMITTER: Start D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6235045 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Start Denon D De Lisle Stephen S
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20181107 1890
Intraspecific variation can have important consequences for the structure and function of ecological communities, and serves to link community ecology to evolutionary processes. Differences between the sexes are an overwhelmingly common form of intraspecific variation, but its community-level consequences have never been experimentally investigated. Here, we manipulate the sex ratio of a sexually dimorphic predacious newt in aquatic mesocosms, then track their impact on prey communities. Female ...[more]