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FACETS, 2023 Animal populations take advantage of environmental heterogeneity to partition themselves into microhabitat niches. Such partitioning plays an important role in regulating interspecific competition and community structure by allowing multiple species to ...
Sara C. Bellefontaine, Diana J. Hamilton
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Bird activity patterns in the understorey of an evergreen forest in Oaxaca, Mexico [PDF]
Neotropical Biology and Conservation, 2021 Activity patterns of species are related to their physiology, their behaviour and the environment and can change in response to different factors, such as interactions between species.
Gabriela Pérez-Irineo +1 more
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Spatial distribution and ecological niches of non-breeding planktivorous petrels [PDF]
, 2015 According to niche theory, mechanisms exist that allow co-existence of organisms that would otherwise compete for the same prey and other resources.
Brown, Ruth +3 more
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Microbial minorities modulate methane consumption through niche partitioning [PDF]
The ISME Journal, 2013 Abstract Microbes catalyze all major geochemical cycles on earth. However, the role of microbial traits and community composition in biogeochemical cycles is still poorly understood mainly due to the inability to assess the community members that are actually performing biogeochemical conversions in complex environmental samples. Here we
Bodelier, P. +8 more
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Ecological niche partitioning in two Pacific puffins
Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2023 Ecological theory predicts that closely related species can coexist if they segregate in space, time, or diet to reduce competitive overlap when resources are limited. These differences in ecological niche are presumably driven by concomitant differences in morphology.
A Shoji +6 more
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Limited trophic partitioning among sympatric delphinids off a tropical oceanic atoll. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Understanding trophic relationships among marine predators in remote environments is challenging, but it is critical to understand community structure and dynamics.
Hillary Young +5 more
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Does residence time affect responses of alien species richness to environmental and spatial processes? [PDF]
, 2012 One of the most robust emerging generalisations in invasion biology is that the probability of invasion increases with the time since introduction (residence time). We analysed the spatial distribution of alien vascular plant species in a region of north-
Dainese, Matteo, Poldini, Livio
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Can diet niche partitioning enhance sexual dimorphism?
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Abstract 1. Classic evolutionary theory suggests that sexual dimorphism evolves primarily via sexual and fecundity selection. However, theory and evidence is beginning to accumulate suggesting that resource competition can drive the evolution of sexual dimorphism, via ecological character displacement between sexes.
Joshua T. Bauld +5 more
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Small differences in root distributions allow resource niche partitioning [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Abstract Deep roots have long been thought to allow trees to coexist with shallow‐rooted grasses. However, data demonstrating how root distributions affect water uptake and niche partitioning are uncommon. We describe tree and grass root distributions using a depth‐specific tracer experiment six times over two years in a subtropical savanna, Kruger ...
Andrew Kulmatiski +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Ecological niche theory predicts that coexistence is facilitated by resource partitioning mechanisms that are influenced by abiotic and biotic interactions.
Wilbert T. Kadye +2 more
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