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Ecological Character Displacement in Darwin's Finches
Abstract
Character displacement resulting from interspecific competition has been extremely difficult to demonstrate. The problem was addressed with a study of Darwin's ground finches (Geospiza). Beak sizes of populations of G. fortis and G. fuliginosa in sympatry and allopatry were compared by a procedure that controls for any possible effects on morphology of variation among locations in food supply. The results provide strong evidence for character displacement. Measurement of natural selection in a population of G. fortis on an island (Daphne) lacking a resident population of G. fuliginosa shows how exploitation of G. fuliginosa foods affects the differential survival of G. fortis phenotypes .
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The measurement of selection on correlated characters
Lande, R., & Arnold, S. J. (1983) · Evolution · doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.1983.tb00236.x · Cited by 5,437
Natural selection and random genetic drift in phenotypic evolution
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- Authors
- Schluter, D., Price, T. D., & Grant, P. R.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1985-03
- Volume
- 227
- Issue
- 4690
- Pages
- 1056-1059
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2074414753
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- 218
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 18.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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