Spatial and temporal niche partitioning in grassland ants

Oecologia ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 126 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Albrecht ◽  
N.J. Gotelli
Keyword(s):  
Niche Partitioning ◽  
Temporal Niche

Disease and community structure: white-nose syndrome alters spatial and temporal niche partitioning in sympatric bat species

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (9) ◽  
pp. 1002-1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David S. Jachowski ◽  
Chris A. Dobony ◽  
Laci S. Coleman ◽  
William M. Ford ◽  
Eric R. Britzke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Niche Partitioning ◽  
Temporal Niche ◽  
White Nose Syndrome

Activity patterns and temporal niche partitioning of dogs and medium-sized wild mammals in urban parks of Xalapa, Mexico

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 1061-1070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isac Mella-Méndez ◽  
Rafael Flores-Peredo ◽  
Jairo Pérez-Torres ◽  
Sergio Hernández-González ◽  
Dino Ulises González-Uribe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Niche Partitioning ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Wild Mammals ◽  
Temporal Niche

scholarly journals Temporal niche partitioning as a novel mechanism promoting co-existence of sympatric predators in marine systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 (1954) ◽  
pp. 20210816
Author(s):  
Karissa O. Lear ◽  
Nicholas M. Whitney ◽  
John J. Morris ◽  
Adrian C. Gleiss
Keyword(s):  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Interference Competition ◽  
Niche Partitioning ◽  
Common Mechanism ◽  
Multiple Predators ◽  
Temporal Partitioning ◽  
Marine Systems ◽  
Temporal Niche ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Sensory Adaptations

Niche partitioning of time, space or resources is considered the key to allowing the coexistence of competitor species, and particularly guilds of predators. However, the extent to which these processes occur in marine systems is poorly understood due to the difficulty in studying fine-scale movements and activity patterns in mobile underwater species. Here, we used acceleration data-loggers to investigate temporal partitioning in a guild of marine predators. Six species of co-occurring large coastal sharks demonstrated distinct diel patterns of activity, providing evidence of strong temporal partitioning of foraging times. This is the first instance of diel temporal niche partitioning described in a marine predator guild, and is probably driven by a combination of physiological constraints in diel timing of activity (e.g. sensory adaptations) and interference competition (hierarchical predation within the guild), which may force less dominant predators to suboptimal foraging times to avoid agonistic interactions. Temporal partitioning is often thought to be rare compared to other partitioning mechanisms, but the occurrence of temporal partitioning here and similar characteristics in many other marine ecosystems (multiple predators simultaneously present in the same space with dietary overlap) introduces the question of whether this is a common mechanism of resource division in marine systems.

scholarly journals Dynamics of bacterial community succession in a salt marsh chronosequence: evidences for temporal niche partitioning

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 1989-2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Dini-Andreote ◽  
Michele de Cássia Pereira e Silva ◽  
Xavier Triadó-Margarit ◽  
Emilio O Casamayor ◽  
Jan Dirk van Elsas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Salt Marsh ◽  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Niche Partitioning ◽  
Community Succession ◽  
Temporal Niche

Temporal niche segregation in two rodent assemblages of subtropical Mexico

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 593-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Castro-Arellano ◽  
Thomas E. Lacher
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Forest ◽  
Niche Partitioning ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Rodent Species ◽  
Niche Segregation ◽  
Semideciduous Forest ◽  
Niche Complementarity ◽  
Temporal Niche ◽  
Temporal Segregation ◽  
Neotropical Rodents

Abstract:Temporal niche partitioning can be a viable mechanism for coexistence, but has received less attention than other niche axes. We characterized and compared patterns of activity, and overlap of temporal activity among the five common rodent species from a tropical semideciduous forest (TSF) and between the two common rodent species from cloud forest (CF) at El Cielo Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. Capture frequencies over 2-h intervals, obtained via live trapping (6850 trap-nights) in chosen months over 3 y formed the empirical basis for analyses. Trap transects were set from 19h00 to 07h00 and checked every 2 h. Analyses of 484 captures evinced two distinct assemblages. The TSF assemblage was diverse and with non-random temporal niche segregation, whereas the CF assemblage was depauperate with its two dominant species evincing the same activity pattern. Predator avoidance between open- and closed-microhabitat species, as well as niche complementarity may explain temporal segregation at TSF. This is the first documentation of assemblage-wide non-random temporal segregation of neotropical rodents. Time of activity may be a largely under-appreciated mechanism in other species-rich tropical rodent assemblages as well as in other species-rich biotas.

scholarly journals Adult—Juvenile interactions and temporal niche partitioning between life-stages in a tropical amphibian

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. e0238949
Author(s):  
Diana Székely ◽  
Dan Cogălniceanu ◽  
Paul Székely ◽  
Mathieu Denoël
Keyword(s):  
Niche Partitioning ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Temporal Niche

scholarly journals Temporal niche partitioning of Swiss black scavenger flies in relation to season and substrate age (Diptera, Sepsidae)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick T. Rohner ◽  
Jean-Paul Haenni ◽  
Athene Giesen ◽  
Juan Pablo Busso ◽  
Martin A. Schäfer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Related Species ◽  
Species Coexistence ◽  
Species Turnover ◽  
Niche Partitioning ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Niche Differentiation ◽  
Ecological Niches ◽  
Phylogenetic Distance ◽  
Closely Related Species ◽  
Temporal Niche

Understanding why and how multiple species manage to coexist represents a primary goal of ecological and evolutionary research. This is of particular relevance for communities that depend on resource rich ephemeral habitats that are prone to high intra- and interspecific competition. Black scavenger flies (Diptera: Sepsidae) are common and abundant acalyptrate flies associated with livestock dung decomposition in human-influenced agricultural grasslands worldwide. Several widespread sepsid species with apparently very similar ecological niches coexist in Europe, but despite their ecological role and their use in evolutionary ecological research, our understanding of their ecological niches and spatio-temporal distribution is still rudimentary. To gain a better understanding of their ecology, we here investigate niche partitioning at two temporal scales. First, we monitored the seasonal occurrence, often related to thermal preference, over multiple years and sites in Switzerland that differ in altitude. Secondly, we also investigate fine-scale temporal succession on dairy cow pastures. In accordance with their altitudinal and latitudinal distribution in Europe, some species were common over the entire season with a peak in summer, hence classified as warm-loving, whereas others were primarily present in spring or autumn. Phenological differences thus likely contribute to species coexistence throughout the season. However, the community also showed pronounced species turnover related to cow pat age. Some species colonize particularly fresh dung and are gradually replaced by others. Furthermore, the correlation between co-occurrence and phylogenetic distance of species revealed significant under-dispersion, indicating that more closely related species are frequently recovered at the same location. As a whole, our data suggests temporal niche differentiation of closely related species that likely facilitates the rather high species diversity on Swiss cattle pastures. The underlying mechanisms allowing close relatives to co-occur however require further scrutiny.

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