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Character Displacement

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Character displacement is evolutionary divergence of a trait, such as beak size, in two competing species where ranges overlap, reducing niche overlap beyond behavioral resource partitioning, per Bio 3607.

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Two finch species show more different beak sizes where both occur together than where either occurs alone.

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Character displacement is evolved morphological divergence, not the behavioral partitioning, per Bio 3607, it builds on.