Sean T. Giery

Nov 14, 2024 | nature.com | James Stroud |Michael Yuan |Kenneth J. Feeley |Sean T. Giery

AbstractEcological character displacement, whereby shifts in resource use in the presence of competing species leads to adaptive evolutionary divergence, is widely considered an important process in community assembly and adaptive radiation. However, most evidence for character displacement has been inferred from macro-scale geographic or phylogenetic patterns; direct tests of the underlying hypothesis of divergent natural selection driving character displacement in the wild are rare.