Ecological and evolutionary causes and consequences of intra-population variability in foraging niche: predator and prey in a marine archipelago

• Main Author: Darimont, Christopher Tod
• Other Authors: Reimchen, Thomas
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: niche; ecology; wolves; salmon; marine; UVic Subject Index::Sciences and Engineering::Biology::Ecology; Outer Island; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/955

The niche concept, which provides a tractable measure of the environment encountered by organisms, figures prominently in ecological and evolutionary theory. Although neglected, valuable information may be gained by examining niche variation at hierarchies nested within its historical roots at the s...