Data from: Isotopic and dietary niches as indicators for resource partitioning in the gleaner bats M. bechsteinii, M. nattereri, and P. auritus ...
The n-dimensional ecological niche summarizes all living requirements of a species. According to the competition and niche theory, co-occurring species have to differ in at least one dimension to live in stable coexistence. Measuring the overall ecological niche within natural ecosystems is probably...
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Dryad
2018
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.pr78v https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.pr78v |
| Summary: | The n-dimensional ecological niche summarizes all living requirements of a species. According to the competition and niche theory, co-occurring species have to differ in at least one dimension to live in stable coexistence. Measuring the overall ecological niche within natural ecosystems is probably impossible but methods that describe several dimensions at once like the isotopic niche are good approximations. However, the impact of each factor contributing to the isotopic niche might be difficult to estimate. The dietary niche, as one part of the isotopic niche, can be examined with high resolution using molecular techniques. In this study we aimed to improve our understanding of species coexistence. We outlined the importance of the isotopic and dietary niches in the context of resource partitioning using the bat species M. bechsteinii, M. nattereri, and P. auritus of the gleaner guild as examples. The dietary and isotopic niches were estimated with stable isotope analysis and molecular fecal analysis. We ... : Roswag_etal_sequencesThe file contains sequences from feces of M. bechsteinii, M. nattereri and P. auritus. The study was conducted in a deciduous forest in Central Germany (Hesse) where all three species coexist on a small spatial scale. ... |
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