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Community Assembly Through Adaptive Radiation in Hawaiian Spiders

Gillespie, Rosemary·2004·Science

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Communities arising through adaptive radiation are generally regarded as unique, with speciation and adaptation being quite different from immigration and ecological assortment. Here, I use the chronological arrangement of the Hawaiian Islands to visualize snapshots of evolutionary history and stages of community assembly. Analysis of an adaptive radiation of habitat-associated, polychromatic spiders shows that (i) species assembly is not random; (ii) within any community, similar sets of ecomorphs arise through both dispersal and evolution; and (iii) species assembly is dynamic with maximum species numbers in communities of intermediate age. The similar patterns of species accumulation through evolutionary and ecological processes suggest universal principles underlie community assembly.

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Authors
Gillespie, R.
Venue
Science
Published
2004-01-16
Volume
303
Issue
5656
Pages
356-359
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
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628
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21.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
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