Performance in a novel environment subject to ghost competition

• Published in: bioRxiv
• Main Authors: Bisschop, Karen, Mortier, Frederik, Bonte, Dries, Rampal Etienne
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 22.10.2019; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Edition: 1.2
• Subjects: Competition; Evolution; Evolutionary Biology; Fecundity; Host plants; Interspecific; Oviposition; Reproductive fitness; Species; local adaptation; interspecific competition; experimental evolution; spider mites; intraspecific competition

A central tenet of the evolutionary theory of communities is that competition impacts evolutionary processes such as local adaptation. Species in a community exert a selection pressure on other species and may drive them to extinction. We know, however, very little about the influence of unsuccessfu...