Habitat selection and the scale of ghostly coexistence among Arctic rodents

• Published in: Oikos
• Main Authors: Ale, Som B., Morris, Douglas W., Dupuch, Angélique, Moore, Debra E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2011
• Subjects: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Herschel Island; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18933.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1600-0706.2010.18933.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18933.x

Competition between coexisting species existing near their stable equilibrium can be obscured if they occupy separate habitats. Theories of habitat selection promise an ability to reveal the underlying ghost of competition by using isodars to infer the behavioural map of habitat selection. We tested...