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Morphological diversity of mole vole mono- and polymorphic populations: Does Chernov's "compensation principle" work
A G Vasil'ev1, V N Bolshakov2, N G Evdokimov2
1Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia. vag@ipae.uran.ru.
Abstract:
The ecological "compensation principle" enunciated by Yu.I. Chernov, who suggested a higher level of compensatory diversity in communities depleted in composition, proved to be also applicable to a single population, as demonstrated in a model rodent species, mole vole with mono- and polymorphic coat color, using the methods of geometric morphometrics. The mandible shape diversity was significantly increased in the monomorphic as compared to polymorphic populations, in which the division of foraging activities between animals of different morphs led to a suppression of general morphological diversity.
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