Contrasting impacts of competition on ecological and social trait evolution in songbirds.

Competition between closely related species has long been viewed as a powerful selective force that drives trait diversification, thereby generating phenotypic diversity over macroevolutionary timescales. However, although the impact of interspecific competition has been documented in a handful of i...

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Main Authors: Jonathan P Drury, Joseph A Tobias, Kevin J Burns, Nicholas A Mason, Allison J Shultz, Hélène Morlon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5809094?pdf=render