Understanding the significance of trophic links has been of interest to ecologists for
decades, likely because food web studies have the potential to reveal a considerable …

The trophic niche width of a species varies depending on the foraging strategy employed by
the individuals within a population. Among reptiles, the niche breadth of many species of …

Snakes can respond to variation in resource availability through changes in diet and species
interactions. For many species, however, patterns of variation in diet are poorly known …

Wild snake diets are difficult to study using traditional methods, but stable isotopes offer
several advantages, including integrating dietary information over time, providing data from …

Niche partitioning is an important mechanism for allowing ecologically similar species to
coexist, contributing to biodiversity and the functioning of ecological communities. Species …

Quantifying diet is essential for understanding the functional role of species with regard to
energy processing, transfer, and storage within ecosystems. Recently, variance structure in …

The coexistence of similar species may be related to a variety of resource utilization
differences. Dietary resource utilization variation may be the most important difference …

Amidst massive losses in biodiversity, it is vital to identify the factors driving species
declines. The main objective of this research was to assess dietary differences between …

Communities are complex and dynamic systems that change with time. The first attempts to
explain how they were structured involve contemporary phenomena like ecological …

Snakes often occur in species‐rich assemblages, and sympatry is thought to be facilitated
primarily by low diet overlap, not interspecific interactions. We selected, a priori, three …