Ecological opportunity and levels of morphological variance within freshwater stickleback populations

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Sympatric diversification as influenced by ecological opportunity and historical contingency in a young species lineage of whitefish (2010, unknown): “Lake size is generally a good predictor of inter- and intraspecific fish diversity (Barbour and Brown, 1974; Tonn and Magnuson, 1982; Nosil and Reimchen, 2005), as expected from the widely applicable species–area relationship (MacArthur and Wilson, 1967; Lawton, 1999; Losos and Schluter, 2000).”
Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations (2010, background): “…of natural selection (Roughgarden, 1972; Lister, 1976a), population increase owing to density compensation (Wilson, 1961; MacArthur et al., 1972), broader habitat or resource use (Lister, 1976b; Robertson, 1996), and increased trait variation (Da Cunha & Dobzhansky, 1954; Nosil & Reimchen, 2005).”
The ecological causes of individual specialisation. (2011, background): “Typically, interspecific competition is presumed to reduce ecological opportunity, but opportunity also depends on factors such as patch size, microhabitat diversity, resource diversity and environmental stability (Nosil & Reimchen 2005; Parent & Crespi 2009).”