Niche partitioning in a sympatric cryptic species complex
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Niche partitioning in a sympatric cryptic species complex.
Competition theory states that multiple species should not be able to occupy the same niche indefinitely. Morphologically, similar species are expected to be ecologically alike and exhibit little niche differentiation, which makes it difficult to explain the co-occurrence of cryptic species. Here, we investigated interspecific niche differentiation within a complex of cryptic bumblebee species ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2045-7758,2045-7758
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1965