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

Competition for prey is thought to be important in structuring snake assemblages. However,
due in part to the secretive behavior and low detectability of many snake species, this …

Patterns of species coexistence in seasonally dynamic ecosystems have long been of
interest to ecologists. Freshwater ecosystems containing several ecologically similar …

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 …

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 …

Investigating dietary resource utilization and head morphology of gape-limited predators can
provide a basis for understanding interspecific competition and species coexistence. For …

The structure of animal communities has long been of interest to ecologists. Two different
hypotheses have been proposed to explain origins of ecological differences among species …

Introduction, The scientific literature on foraging biology in lizards has tended to ignore
intraspecific variation. Thus, the species is treated as the unit of analysis, under the implicit …

In many populations of terrestrial snakes, the phenotype of an individual (eg body size, sex,
colour) affects its habitat use. One cause for that link is gape limitation, which can result in …

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