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1. Full Text Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data
by Olivier Broennimanna and Matthew C. Fitzpatrick and Peter B. Pearman and Blaise Petitpierre and Loïc Pellissier and Nigel G. Yoccoz and Wilfried Thuiller and Marie-Josée Fortin and Christophe Randin and Niklaus E. Zimmermann and Catherine H. Graham and Antoine Guisan
Global Ecology and Biogeography, ISSN 1466-822X, 3/2012, Volume 21, Issue 3/4, pp. 481 - 497
Aim: Concerns over how global change will influence species distributions, in conjunction with increased emphasis on understanding niche dynamics in... 
Invasive species | Ecological modeling | Ecological genetics | Ecological niches | Ordination | Ecological invasion | Biogeography | Environmental space | Ecology | Species | niche similarity | niche conservatism | Centaurea stoebe | ordination | ecological niche model | kernel density | species distribution model | Solenopsis invicta | virtual species | niche equivalency | Species distribution model | Ecological niche model | Kernel density | Niche conservatism | Niche equivalency | Virtual species | Niche similarity | GLOBAL LAND AREAS | SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS | CLIMATE-CHANGE | PREDICTION | INVASION | GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL | EVOLUTION | GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS | MODELS | CONSERVATISM | DATA SETS MATTER | ECOLOGY | Measurement | Marine biology | Evolutionary biology | Niche (Ecology) | Analysis | Methods
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2. Full Text A new probabilistic method for quantifying n-dimensional ecological niches and niche overlap
by Swanson, Heidi K and Lysy, Martin and Power, Michael and Stasko, Ashley D and Johnson, Jim D and Reist, James D
Ecology, ISSN 0012-9658, 02/2015, Volume 96, Issue 2, pp. 318 - 324
Considerable progress has been made in the development of statistical tools to quantify trophic relationships using stable isotope ratios, including tools that... 
arctic fish | stable isotopes | spp | Bayesian probabilistic analysis | Beaufort Sea, Yukon Territory, Canada | niche overlap | niche quantification | Coregonus | nicheROVER | Population ecology | Ecological niches | Marine ecology | Animal ecology | Sample size | Reports | Ecology | Ellipses | Isotopes | Species | Isotope ratios | Coregonus spp | Yukon territory | Canada | NicheROVER | Niche overlap | Niche quantification | Stable isotopes | Arctic fish | Beaufort sea | LAKE | STABLE-ISOTOPES | Yukon Territory | MODELS | Beaufort Sea | ECOLOGY | BREADTH | Probability | Animals | Models, Statistical | Models, Biological | Ecosystem | Research | Niche (Ecology) | Ecological research | Methods
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3. Trophic overlap in mobulid rays: Insights from stable isotope analysis
by Stewart, Joshua D and Rohner, Christoph A and Araujo, Gonzalo and Avila, Jose and Fernando, Daniel and Forsberg, Kerstin and Ponzo, Alessandro and Rambahiniarison, Joshua M and Kurle, Carolyn M and Semmens, Brice X
Marine Ecology Progress Series, ISSN 0171-8630, 09/2017, Volume 580, pp. 131 - 151
Mobulid rays, a group of closely related filter-feeders, are threatened globally by bycatch and targeted fisheries. Their habitat use and feeding ecology are... 
Bycatch risk | Mixing model | Niche overlap | Feeding ecology | DEVIL RAYS | ANIMAL ECOLOGY | MANTA RAYS | HABITAT USE | EASTERN AUSTRALIA | MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY | OCEANOGRAPHY | SEASONAL-CHANGES | ECOLOGY | DISCRIMINATION FACTORS | MARINE PREDATORS
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4. Full Text Individual‐based analyses reveal limited functional overlap in a coral reef fish community
by Brandl, Simon J and Bellwood, David R and Hays, Graeme
Journal of Animal Ecology, ISSN 0021-8790, 05/2014, Volume 83, Issue 3, pp. 661 - 670
Summary Detailed knowledge of a species’ functional niche is crucial for the study of ecological communities and processes. The extent of niche overlap,... 
functional diversity | biodiversity | ecosystem function | community ecology | herbivory | niche partitioning | functional group | Eltonian niche | Siganidae | Community ecology | Ecosystem function | Herbivory | Biodiversity | Functional diversity | Niche partitioning | Functional group | BEHAVIOR | RESILIENCE | PATTERNS | HERBIVOROUS FISHES | REDUNDANCY | PARROTFISHES | ZOOLOGY | SPECIES RICHNESS | ECOLOGY | DIVERSITY | EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY | Ecology - methods | Animals | Models, Biological | Ecosystem | Sensitivity and Specificity | Conservation of Natural Resources | Fishes - physiology | Coral Reefs | Queensland | Coral reefs and islands | Corals | Ecosystems | Analysis | Fishes | Coral reefs | Marine biology | Fish | Marine ecology | Foraging behavior
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5. Full Text The geography and ecology of plant speciation: Range overlap and niche divergence in sister species
by Anacker, Brian L and Strauss, Sharon Y
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, ISSN 0962-8452, 01/2014, Volume 281, Issue 1778, p. 20132980
A goal of evolutionary biology is to understand the roles of geography and ecology in speciation. The recent shared ancestry of sister species can leave a... 
Niche conservatism | Age-range correlation | Allopatric and ecological speciation | Sister species | Ecological niche | Community phylogenetics | niche conservatism | age-range correlation | allopatric and ecological speciation | sister species | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | CALIFORNIA FLORA | CLARKIA-LINGULATA | ORIGIN | EVOLUTION | SYMPATRIC SPECIATION | PHYLOGENETIC-RELATIONSHIPS | CONSERVATISM | BIOLOGY | CHARACTER DIVERGENCE | FLOWERING PLANTS | ECOLOGY | DIVERSITY | ecological niche | community phylogenetics | Biological Evolution | Reproduction | Plants - genetics | Species Specificity | Ecosystem | Genetic Speciation | Phylogeography | Phylogeny | Population Dynamics | 1001
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6. Full Text Resource partitioning between kit foxes (Vulpes macrotis) and coyotes (Canis latrans): a comparison of historical and contemporary dietary overlap
by Waits, L.P and Lonsinger, R.C and Kozlowski, A.J and Byerly, P.A and Gese, E.M
Canadian Journal of Zoology, ISSN 0008-4301, 2018, Volume 96, Issue 5, pp. 497 - 504
Range expansions by generalists can alter communities and introduce competitive pressures on native species. In the Great Basin Desert, USA, coyotes (Canis... 
concurrence | coyote | intraguild predation | competition | prédation intraguilde | diet | Canis latrans | renard nain | régime alimentaire | Vulpes macrotis | kit fox | Competition | Diet | Kit fox | Coyote | Intraguild predation | SOUTH-AFRICA | NICHE OVERLAP | SWIFT FOXES | CLIMATE-CHANGE | CARNIVORES | COMMUNITIES | ZOOLOGY | GREAT-BASIN DESERT | ECOLOGY | Coyotes | Resource partitioning (Ecology) | Observations
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7. Full Text Limited dietary overlap amongst resident Arctic herbivores in winter: complementary insights from complementary methods
by Schmidt, Niels M and Mosbacher, Jesper B and Vesterinen, Eero J and Roslin, Tomas and Michelsen, Anders
Oecologia, ISSN 0029-8549, 7/2018, Volume 187, Issue 3, pp. 689 - 699
Snow may prevent Arctic herbivores from accessing their forage in winter, forcing them to aggregate in the few patches with limited snow. In High Arctic... 
Life Sciences | Competition | Metabarcoding | Hydrology/Water Resources | Stable isotopes | Ecology | Plant Sciences | Tundra | Greenland | PLANT BIOMASS | NICHE OVERLAP | FOOD-WEB | MUSKOXEN | MAMMALIAN HERBIVORES | NORTHEAST GREENLAND | SNOW COVER | STABLE-ISOTOPE | ECOLOGY | SEASONAL ENVIRONMENT | OVIBOS-MOSCHATUS | Snow | Niche overlap | Snowpack | Plant resources | Data processing | Niche breadth | Isotope ratios | Contraction | Feeding | Taxa | Ratios | Diet | Winter | Polar environments | Herbivores | Flowers & plants | Foraging behaviour | Niches
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8. Full Text Estimating Overlap of Daily Activity Patterns From Camera Trap Data
by M. S. Ridout and M. Linkie
Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, ISSN 1085-7117, 9/2009, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 322 - 337
Data from camera traps that record the time of day at which photographs are taken are used widely to study daily activity patterns of photographed species. It... 
Density estimation | Cats | Estimation bias | Cameras | Animal traps | Tigers | Coefficients | Density | Estimators | Estimation methods | Biostatistics | Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences | Overlap coefficient | Circular data | Agriculture | Sumatran tiger ( Panthera Tigris ) | Trigonometric sum distribution | Kernel density estimation | Statistics | Clouded leopard ( Neofelis diardi ) | Environmental Monitoring/Analysis | Golden cat ( Catopuma Temminckii ) | Sumatran tiger (Panthera Tigris) | Clouded leopard (Neofelis diardi) | Golden cat (Catopuma Temminckii) | Golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) | NICHE OVERLAP | ABSOLUTELY CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTIONS | STATISTICS & PROBABILITY | DENSITY | PREY | COEFFICIENT | Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris) | NONPARAMETRIC-ESTIMATION | AFFINITY | BIOLOGY | MATHEMATICAL & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY | SELECTION
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9. Full Text The relationship between intra–guild diet overlap and breeding in owls in Israel
by Charter, Motti and Izhaki, Ido and Roulin, Alexandre
Population Ecology, ISSN 1438-3896, 10/2018, Volume 60, Issue 4, pp. 397 - 403
Even though intra-guild predators frequently prey on the same species, it is unclear whether diet overlap between two predators is a source of interspecific... 
Zoology | Behavioral Sciences | Diet overlap | Ecology | Life Sciences | Forestry | Breeding success | Interspecific competition | Tyto alba | Evolutionary Biology | Plant Sciences | Asio otus | Relative and fundamental niche | POPULATION | SUCCESS | TYTO-ALBA | PATTERNS | NORTHERN | REPRODUCTIVE OUTPUT | ASIO-OTUS | LONG-EARED OWLS | ECOLOGY | KESTRELS | Owls | Competition | Hunting | Sympatric populations | Breeding | Niche overlap | Population number | Birds | Interspecific | Prey | Diets | Predators | Diet | Rodents | Small mammals | Species | Niches
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10. Full Text Dynamic range boxes – a robust nonparametric approach to quantify size and overlap of n‐dimensional hypervolumes
by Junker, Robert R and Kuppler, Jonas and Bathke, Arne C and Schreyer, Manuela L and Trutschnig, Wolfgang and Orme, David
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, ISSN 2041-210X, 12/2016, Volume 7, Issue 12, pp. 1503 - 1513
Summary n‐dimensional hypervolumes are commonly applied in ecology and evolutionary studies to describe and compare niches, trait spaces characterizing... 
quantiles | trait space | Hutchinson | multivariate range boxes | niche | morphospace | FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY | TIME | NICHE-BREADTH | HABITAT | FRAMEWORK | ECOLOGY | TRAITS
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11. Full Text Metabolic Overlap in Environmentally Diverse Microbial Communities
by Hester, Eric R and Jetten, Mike S.M and Welte, Cornelia U and Lucker, Sebastian
Frontiers in Genetics, ISSN 1664-8021, 10/2019, Volume 10
The majority of microbial communities consist of hundreds to thousands of species, creating a massive network of organisms competing for available resources... 
metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) | niche | functional redundancy | microbial communities | metagenomics | bioinformatics
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12. Full Text Resource partitioning and niche hyper-volume overlap in free-living Pygoscelid penguins
by Rory P. Wilson
Functional Ecology, ISSN 0269-8463, 6/2010, Volume 24, Issue 3, pp. 646 - 657
1. Species potentially competing for the same resource are considered to be able to co-exist if they occupy different niches. In an apparent example of this,... 
Population ecology | Marine ecology | Krill | Foraging | Ecological competition | Interspecific competition | Birds | Human ecology | Penguins | Sea birds | Behavioural ecology | interspecific competition | area utilization | ecological segregation | Pygoscelis papua | Antarctica | Pygoscelis antarctica | foraging ecology | Pygoscelis adeliae | diving behaviour | temporal differences | Temporal differences | Ecological segregation | Diving behaviour | Area utilization | Foraging ecology | DIVING BEHAVIOR | CHINSTRAP PENGUINS | ANTARCTIC KRILL | ADELIE PENGUINS | SEABIRDS | ECOLOGY | SOUTH-SHETLAND ISLANDS | OPTIMAL ALLOCATION | KING-GEORGE-ISLAND | FIELD EXPERIMENTS | Analysis | Competition | Integration | Sympatric populations | Night | Breeding | Niche overlap | Migration | Morning | Mobility | Sympatry | Feeding | Forages | Exploitation | Prey | Partitioning | Efficiency | Surface water | Diving | Physiology | Mathematical models | Resource partitioning | Niches
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13. Predicting trophic guild and diet overlap from functional traits: Statistics, opportunities and limitations for marine ecology
by Albouy, C and Guilhaumon, F and Villéger, S and Mouchet, M and Mercier, L and Culioli, J.M and Tomasini, J.A and Le Loc'h, F and Mouillot, D
Marine Ecology Progress Series, ISSN 0171-8630, 08/2011, Volume 436, pp. 17 - 28
Fish diets provide information that can be used to explore and model complex ecosystems, and infer resource partitioning among species. The exhaustive sampling... 
Non-linear model | Mediterranean | Fish | Generalized dissimilarity modeling | Random forest | Versatility | CENTRAL CHILE | RANDOM FORESTS | NICHE OVERLAP | ASSEMBLAGES | CORAL-REEF | CONTINENTAL-SHELF | MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY | OCEANOGRAPHY | NATIVE FISHES | LACUSTRINE FISH COMMUNITIES | ECOLOGY | ECOSYSTEM | MORPHOLOGY
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14. Full Text Trophic overlap between non‐native brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus) and native shortfin eel (Anguilla australis) in shallow lakes
by Collier, Kevin J and Pingram, Michael A and Francis, Laura and Garrett‐Walker, Jeremy and Melchior, Michele
Ecology of Freshwater Fish, ISSN 0906-6691, 10/2018, Volume 27, Issue 4, pp. 888 - 897
We quantified trophic overlap between the invasive, non‐native catfish brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus) and the New Zealand native shortfin eel (Anguilla... 
δ13C | δ15N | trophic niche | diet | isotope | gut content | invasive species | STABLE-ISOTOPE RATIOS | NICHE OVERLAP | NEW-ZEALAND | CARBON | N-15 | FOOD-HABITS | FRESH-WATER FISH | FISHERIES | COMPETITION | MARINE & FRESHWATER BIOLOGY | DIET OVERLAP | CONSEQUENCES | NITROGEN | delta C-13 | Larvae | Composition | Nutrition | Omnivores | Eels | Peat | Ingestion | Inland waters | Prey | Catfish | Stable isotopes | Lakes | Fish | Mathematical models | Marine fish | Freshwater fish | Sampling | Invertebrates | Catadromous species | Niches
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