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Article: Researchers at University of British Columbia target ecology.
- Article from:
- Ecology, Environment & Conservation
- Article date:
- September 18, 2009
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According to recent research from Vancouver, Canada, "If natural communities are assembled according to deterministic rules, coexisting species will represent a nonrandom subset of the potential species pool. We tested for signatures of assembly rules in the distribution of species' traits in Pacific rockfish (Sebastes spp.) assemblages."
"We used morphology, dietary niche (estimated with stable nitrogen isotopes), and distribution data to identify traits that relate to local-scale resource use (the alpha-niche) and to environmental gradients (the beta-niche). We showed that gill raker morphology was related to trophic position (an alpha-niche axis), while ...
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