Intraspecific phenotypic variation in a fish predator affects multitrophic lake metacommunity structure.

ABSTRACT: Contemporary insights from evolutionary ecology suggest that population divergence in ecologically important traits within predators can generate diversifying ecological selection on local community structure. Many studies acknowledging these effects of intraspecific variation assume that local populations are situated in communities that are unconnected to similar communities within a shared region. Recent work from metacommunity ecology suggests that species dispersal among communities can also influence species diversity and composition but can depend upon the relative importance of the local environment. Here, we study the relative effects of intraspecific phenotypic variation in a fish predator and spatial processes related to plankton species dispersal on multitrophic lake plankton m

SUBMITTER: Howeth JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3892366 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature