Individual diet specialization (IS) has important community‐and population‐level
implications and its ecological drivers are actively investigated. Here, to test the hypothesis …

The trophic niche is a life trait that identifies the consumer's position in a local food web.
Several factors, such as ontogeny, competitive ability and resource availability contribute in …

Relationships between species and their habitats are not always constant. Different
processes may determine changes in species-habitat association: individuals may prefer …

Eastern Red-backed Salamanders are colour polymorphic and have become a model
system for examining ecological separation and the mechanisms for potential divergence in …

European cave salamanders of the genus Hydromantes are a group of eight species
endemic to Italy and south-eastern France. Knowledge on the trophic niche of European …

Information on individual trophic specialization may be relevant to better understand the
ecological adaptation of populations to their environment and the evolution of their realized …

Identifying the historical processes that drive microhabitat transitions across deep time is of
great interest to evolutionary biologists. Morphological variation can often reveal such …

Specialization is typically inferred at population and species level but in the last decade
many authors highlighted this trait at the individual level, finding that generalist populations …

Biological diversity is distributed across the planet in non-random, organised ways. At the
species level, numerous environmental variables have been proposed to explain this non …

Trophic niche may be the most important ecological dimension for some vertebrate groups
and in particular for terrestrial amphibians, that are important predators of soil invertebrates …