Journal
LETHAIA
Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 33-44Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2006.00004.x
Keywords
Barton-David test; body size estimation; canids; character displacement; felids; size-ratios
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
This study focuses on ecological processes such as competition or predation from an evolutionary perspective. First, we attempt to test the idea that species with similar feeding requirements tend to coexist by separating morphologically or behaviourally. Then, the Barton-David test was applied to several carnivore communities (felids and canids) separated in time. Although the preservation bias of the fossil record renders our conclusions tentative, the general equal size-ratio pattern in most of the guilds examined indicates that inter-specific competition for prey species seems to be a good candidate to explain the evolution of guild composition and morphological traits throughout the Pleistocene for the two groups considered, felids and canids.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available