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Originally posted by burgermeister:
Seriously, when natural hybrids occur I wonder if it is due to lack of numbers of 1 species, if the milt goes astray in tight spaces, or other causes.
ewest (who else) found a study on natural hybridization in a large (many 100's of acres or bigger) lake with about a half-dozen Lepomis species. The fewer of each species there were in the lake, the larger number of hybrids there were having that species for one parent.

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