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Competition-mediated Divergence

Competition-Mediated Divergence is a theoretical framework in community ecology that explains the evolutionary or ecological differentiation of species' niches as a direct consequence of competitive interactions, thereby reducing resource overlap and promoting coexistence.

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14.2K

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159

Authors

109

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2017–2026

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Publications

70

The Limiting Similarity, Convergence, and Divergence of Coexisting Species

Robert H. MacArthur, Richard Levins · The American Naturalist · 1967 · 4.6K citations

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Diversity and the Coevolution of Competitors, or the Ghost of Competition Past

Joseph H. Connell · Oikos · 1980 · 1.5K citations

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Evolution of Character Displacement in Darwin's Finches

Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant · Science · 2006 · 996 citations

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Intraspecific competition drives increased resource use diversity within a natural population

Richard Svanbäck, Daniel I. Bolnick · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2006 · 900 citations · Full text

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Ecological and community‐wide character displacement: the next generation

Tamar Dayan, Daniel Simberloff · Ecology Letters · 2005 · 613 citations

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Authors

159

  1. DW
    David W. Pfennig

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    6 publications · 540 citations

    6

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  2. MD
    Michael Doebeli

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    3 publications · 290 citations

    3

    h-index

  3. JR
    Jiří Reif

    Charles University, Czechia

    3 publications · 106 citations

    3

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  4. RR
    Radka Reifová

    Charles University, Czechia

    3 publications · 106 citations

    3

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  5. DS
    Dolph Schluter

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    3 publications · 625 citations

    3

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Institutions

109

  1. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    8 h-index

    11 publications

    2.2K citations

  2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    13 publications

    1.2K citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    581 citations

  5. University of Wyoming

    Laramie, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    226 citations

  6. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    494 citations

  7. Palacký University Olomouc

    Olomouc, Czechia

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    106 citations

  8. Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

    Poznan, Poland

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    174 citations

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Venues

  1. Evolution

    15 publications · 958 citations

    14

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  2. The American Naturalist

    AN · 6 publications · 5.1K citations

    6

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  3. Ecology

    5 publications · 943 citations

    5

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  4. 4

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  5. Science

    3 publications · 1.6K citations

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