Competition, predation and natural selection in island lizards

Jonathan B. Losos () and Robert M. Pringle
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Jonathan B. Losos: Harvard University
Robert M. Pringle: Society of Fellows, Harvard University

Nature, 2011, vol. 475, issue 7355, E1-E2

Abstract: Abstract Arising from R. Calsbeek & R. M. Cox Nature 465, 613–616 (2010)10.1038/nature09020 ; Calsbeek and Cox reply Discerning the relative influence of competition and predation as selective forces is an important goal of evolutionary ecology. Calsbeek and Cox1 argue that intraspecific competition outweighs predation as an agent of natural selection on island populations of the lizard Anolis sagrei. However, we identify several problems with the design and analysis of the Calsbeek and Cox1 study that we believe render its results uninterpretable.

Date: 2011
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