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Moving to the ideal free home

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Pike move between two basins of a British lake to maximize their evolutionary fitness. This adaptive behaviour suggests that habitat selection is more significant in population dynamics than was thought.

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Figure 1: Testing for an ideal free distribution.
Figure 2: Divided lake.

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