RT Journal Article
T1 Evolution  of  community  composition  in  several  carnivore  palaeoguilds  from  the  European  Pleistocene:  the  role  of  interspecific  competition
A1 García García, Nuria
A1 Virgós, Emilio
AB This study focuses on ecological processes such as competition or predation from an evolutionary perspective. First, we attempt to test the idea that species with similar feeding requirements tend to coexist by separating morphologically or behaviourally. Then, the Barton–David test was applied to several carnivore communities (felids and canids) separated in time. Although the preservation bias of the fossil record renders our conclusions tentative, the general equal size–ratio pattern in most of the guilds examined indicates that inter‐specific competition for prey species seems to be a good candidate to explain the evolution of guild composition and morphological traits throughout the Pleistocene for the two groups considered, felids and canids.
PB Scandinavian University Press
SN 0024-1164
YR 2007
FD 2007
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/103277
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/103277
LA eng
NO Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica
NO Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 15 jun 2025