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Plants partition the pollinator niche by depositing pollen on different parts of the pollinator body.

PLoS ONE
Niche partitioning of pollinators promotes the maintenance of high plant diversity in tropical environments. The role of animal pollinators in this partitioning has been evaluated predominantly at individual and species levels.
William A Arteaga-Chávez, Catherine H Graham, Esteban A Guevara, Boris A Tinoco   +3 more
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Historical niche partitioning and long‐term trophic shifts in Laurentian Great Lakes deepwater coregonines

Ecosphere, 2018
Over the last 100 yr, anthropogenic stressors have decimated the assemblage of deepwater coregonines that once underpinned the food webs of the Laurentian Great Lakes.
Chelsey Blanke, Yoshito Chikaraishi, M. Jake Vander Zanden   +2 more
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Intersexual trophic niche partitioning in an ant-eating spider (Araneae: Zodariidae). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Divergence in trophic niche between the sexes may function to reduce competition between the sexes ("intersexual niche partitioning hypothesis"), or may be result from differential selection among the sexes on maximizing reproductive output ("sexual ...
Stano Pekár, Martina Martišová, Trine Bilde   +2 more
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Niche partitioning of a pathogenic microbiome driven by chemical gradients [PDF]

Science Advances, 2018
Chemical gradients shape the cystic fibrosis lung microbiome, with marked effects on the outcome of antimicrobial treatments.
Robert A. Quinn, William Comstock, Tianyu Zhang, James T. Morton, Ricardo da Silva, Alda Tran, Alexander Aksenov, Louis-Felix Nothias, Daniel Wangpraseurt, Alexey V. Melnik, Gail Ackermann, Douglas Conrad, Isaac Klapper, Rob Knight, Pieter C. Dorrestein   +14 more
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Coexistence mechanisms and individual trophic niche variation between functionally analogous non-native and native carp species

Scientific Reports
Understanding the mechanisms that promote coexistence between functionally analogous non-native and native species that share similar prey is important for predicting the ecological consequences of their competitive interactions.
Yingqiu Zhang, J. Robert Britton, Daotian Huang, Yujie He, Yuefei Li, Weitao Chen, Jie Li   +6 more
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Ontogenetic dietary variation and niche partitioning in Bothrops moojeni across a Cerrado–Amazon ecotone [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology
We investigated ontogenetic dietary variation and trophic niche partitioning in Bothrops moojeni, a Neotropical pitviper inhabiting an ecotone between the Cerrado savanna and the Amazon rainforest in Mid-North Mato Grosso, Brazil.
D. J. Silva, V. D. Silva-Alves, G. L. Silva, J. S. Hall Silva, M. I. Santos, G. R. Canale, V. A. S. Campos, M. Santos-Filho   +7 more
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Niche partitioning in the coevolution of 2 distinct RNA enzymes [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009
Organisms that compete for limited resources within a common environment may evolve traits that allow them to exploit distinct ecological niches, thus enabling multiple species to coexist within the same habitat. The process of niche partitioning now has been captured at the molecular level, employing the method of continuous in vitro evolution.
Sarah B, Voytek, Gerald F, Joyce
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Oribatid mites reveal that competition for resources and trophic structure combine to regulate the assembly of diverse soil animal communities

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
The role of niche partitioning in structuring species‐rich soil animal communities has been debated for decades and generated the “enigma of soil animal diversity.” More recently, resource‐based niche partitioning has been hypothesized to play a very ...
Matthew Magilton, Mark Maraun, Mark Emmerson, Tancredi Caruso   +3 more
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Trophic niche similarities of sympatric Turdus thrushes determined by fecal contents, stable isotopes, and bipartite network approaches

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
An ecological niche has been defined as an n‐dimensional hypervolume formed by conditions and resources that species need to survive, grow, and reproduce.
Camila Bosenbecker, Leandro Bugoni
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Different coexistence patterns between apex carnivores and mesocarnivores based on temporal, spatial, and dietary niche partitioning analysis in Qilian Mountain National Park, China

eLife
Carnivores play key roles in maintaining ecosystem structure and function as well as ecological processes. Understanding how sympatric species coexist in natural ecosystems is a central research topic in community ecology and biodiversity conservation ...
Wei Cong, Jia Li, Charlotte Hacker, Ye Li, Yu Zhang, Lixiao Jin, Yi Zhang, Diqiang Li, Yadong Xue, Yuguang Zhang   +9 more
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