character displacement
character displacement The principle that two species are more different where they occur together (i.e. are sympatric) than where they are separated geographically (i.e. are allopatric). See allopatry and sympatry. Compare character release.
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Allopatry , allopatry The occurrence of species or other taxa in different geographical regions. Subspecies are allopatric by definition. Compare SYMPATRY.
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1. The set of characters that is handled by a specified machine or allowed by a given programming language or protocol. The set usually… Phylogeny , Before the mid-1800s, classification of organisms into groups, called taxa , was generally based on overall similarity of physical appearance. There… Character , In the world of the early Republic, every man active in politics worried obsessively about his "character," although not in the sense in which one wo… Cladistics , cladistics (klədĬs´tĬks) or phylogenetic systematics (fī´lōjənĕt´Ĭk), an approach to the classification of living things in which organisms are defin… Competitive Exclusion Principle , competitive exclusion principle(exclusion principle, Gause principle) The principle that two or more resource-limited species, having identical patte…
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