Ecological opportunity and adaptive radiations reveal eco-evolutionary perspectives on community structure in competitive communities.

ABSTRACT: It is well known that ecological and evolutionary processes act in concert while shaping biological communities. Diversification can, for example, arise through ecological opportunity and adaptive radiations and competition play an essential role in such diversification. Eco-evolutionary components of competition are thus important for our understanding of community assembly. Such understanding in turn facilitates interpretation of trait- and phylogenetic community patterns in the light of the processes that shape them. Here, I investigate the link between competition, diversification, and trait- and phylogenetic- community patterns using a trait-based model of adaptive radiations. I evaluate the paradigm that competition is an ecological process that drives large trait- and phylogenetic c

SUBMITTER: Pontarp M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8486866 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature