The Effect of Competition Among Resources on Phenotypic Evolution of Consumers

dc.contributor.advisor	Wilson, William G	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Kumagai, Seiji	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2011-01-06T20:46:06Z
dc.date.available	2011-01-06T20:46:06Z
dc.date.issued	2010	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10161/3157
dc.description	Thesis	en_US
dc.description.abstract	<p>The pattern of competition among consumers</p><p>is one of the important factors that</p><p>determine if a population of the consumers</p><p>diverges or remains monomophic.</p><p>Despite its importance,</p><p>what factors can affect the pattern</p><p>has not been investigated.</p><p>One of such factors is</p><p>the shape of resource distribution.</p><p>Here I investigate the effect of</p><p>competition among resources.</p><p>Because the competition among resources</p><p>alter the resource distribution,</p><p>the evolutionary dynamics of the consumers</p><p>is also affected.</p>	en_US
dc.subject	Ecology	en_US
dc.subject	consumer-resource interactions	en_US
dc.subject	evolutionary branching	en_US
dc.subject	generalist-specialist trade-off	en_US
dc.subject	phenotypic evolution	en_US
dc.subject	resource competition	en_US
dc.title	The Effect of Competition Among Resources on Phenotypic Evolution of Consumers	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.department	Biology	en_US