Competitive exclusion among fig wasps achieved via entrainment of host plant flowering phenology.

Competitive exclusion among fig wasps achieved via entrainment of host plant flowering phenology.

Molecular techniques are revealing increasing numbers of morphologically similar but co-existing cryptic species, challenging the niche theory. To understand the co-existence mechanism, we studied phenologies of morphologically similar species of fig wasps that pollinate the creeping fig (F. pumila)...

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Main Authors: Min Liu, Rui Zhao, Yan Chen, Jian Zhang, Stephen G Compton, Xiao-Yong Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4029822?pdf=render

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