Possible Explanations
A suite of possible explanations have been proposed to describe why positive intra- and interspecific O–A relationships are observed. Following Gaston et al. 1997 Gaston and Blackburn 2000 Gaston et al. 2000, and Gaston 2003 these reasons include:
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