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the adaptive characters that evolve and enable one species to exclude another from its ecological niche. See also competitive exclusion, under exclusion.
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| character displacement |
Usually refers to a pattern of geographic variation, in which a character differs more greatly between sympatric than between allopatric populations of two species; sometimes used for the evolutionary process of accentuation of differences between sympatric populations of two species, owing to reproductive or ecological interactions between them.
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| character displacement |
variation of traits due to the presence of competing species. Example, three species of finches have different beak sizes on 4 different islands (AD) where the other species are present (Lack, 1947).
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