Evolution of Character Displacement in Darwin's Finches

By P. Grant, B. Grant. Science, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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The problem of pattern and scale in ecology: what have we learned in 20 years? (2013, background): “Grant & Grant (2006) reported spectacular changes in beak size over a 40-year period (for a detailed review, see Grant & Grant 2008).”
Rapid Evolutionary Change and the Coexistence of Species (2011, background): “…mean beak sizes of Galápagos finches can change in matter of years (Grant & Grant 2006, Hendry et al. 2009); direct observations of character displacement in beak size have been made in one finch population only 22 years after the introduction of a competitor species (Grant & Grant 2006).”
Adaptation and diversification on islands (2009, background): “In a recent study on Darwin’s finches 43 , Peter and Rosemary Grant showed that natural selection in response to drought conditions favoured increased beak size (which is associated with eating larger seeds) in Geospiza fortis in the absence of a larger competing species, but decreased beak size…”
Evolution on ecological time‐scales (2007, background): “Specifically, selection and evolution often fluctuate dramatically in direction through time, presumably tracking fluctuating environments, so that rapid short term changes rarely accumulate into long-term directional trends (Gibbs & Grant 1987; Hairston & Dillon 1990; Ellner et al. 1999; Grant & G”
Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Species and Communities (2010, background): “…drought events differed drastically depending on the community context: In the absence of large competitors, larger body size evolved to exploit larger seeds after the drought, whereas smaller size evolved in the same circumstance but in the presence of large ground finches (Grant & Grant 2006).”
Adaptive Radiation, Ecological Opportunity, and Evolutionary Determinism (2010, background): “Field studies of natural selection (e.g., Grant and Grant 2006), sometimes experimental (e.g., Losos et al. 2006), are testing the hypothesis that interspeciﬁc interactions drive adaptive diversiﬁcation in adaptive radiations.”
Human influences on rates of phenotypic change in wild animal populations (2008, background): “Bell et al . 2004; Hargeby et al . 2004; Grant & Grant 2006 ).”
Eco-evolutionary interactions between predators and prey: can predator-induced changes to prey communities feed back to shape predator foraging traits? (2008, background): “For this system, eco-evolutionary interactions have been inferred to be important determinants of both evolutionary and ecological dynamics – beak size responds evolutionarily to changes in seed availability and seed availability responds ecologically to the intensity of finch predation (Grant and G”
Bird dietary guild richness across latitudes, environments and biogeographic regions (2012, background): “Dietary strategies are also crucial for understanding species formation because interspecific competition for similar food resources can explain character displacement and the evolutionary divergence of species (Brown & Wilson, 1956; Grant & Grant, 2006).”
The QTN Program and the Alleles That Matter for Evolution: All That’s Gold Does Not Glitter (2011, neutral): “Finch morphology is a suite of classic quantitative characters with abundant intraspecific heritable variation (Grant and Grant. 2006).”