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Sexual selection enables long-term coexistence despite ecological equivalence

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  • Leithen K. M’Gonigle

    (University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4
    Present address: Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, 130 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.)

  • Rupert Mazzucco

    (Evolution and Ecology Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria)

  • Sarah P. Otto

    (University of British Columbia, 6270 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4)

  • Ulf Dieckmann

    (Evolution and Ecology Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria)

Abstract

A theoretical model shows how sexual selection, on its own, can maintain biodiversity, provided that two realistic assumptions are met: that carrying capacity varies spatially, and that females searching for mates incur costs in doing so.

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  • Leithen K. M’Gonigle & Rupert Mazzucco & Sarah P. Otto & Ulf Dieckmann, 2012. "Sexual selection enables long-term coexistence despite ecological equivalence," Nature, Nature, vol. 484(7395), pages 506-509, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:484:y:2012:i:7395:d:10.1038_nature10971
    DOI: 10.1038/nature10971
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    1. Costa, Carolina L.N. & Marquitti, Flavia M.D. & Perez, S. Ivan & Schneider, David M. & Ramos, Marlon F. & de Aguiar, Marcus A.M., 2018. "Registering the evolutionary history in individual-based models of speciation," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 510(C), pages 1-14.

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