Journal article
Species partitioning in a temperate mountain chain: Segregation by habitat vs. interspecific competition
Giulia Bastianelli, Brendan A Wintle, Elizabeth H Martin, Javier Seoane, Paola Laiolo
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION | WILEY | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2883
Abstract
Disentangling the relative influence of the environment and biotic interactions in determining species coexistence patterns is a major challenge in ecology. The zonation occurring along elevation gradients, or at bioclimatic contact zones, offers a good opportunity to improve such understanding because the small scale at which the partitioning occurs facilitates inference based on experiments and ecological modelling. We studied the influence of abiotic gradients, habitat types, and interspecific competition in determining the spatial turnover between two pipit and two bunting species in NW Spain. We explored two independent lines of evidence to draw inference about the relative importance o..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion, Grant/Award Number: BES-2012-053472, CGL2008-02749, CGL2011-28177 and CGL2014-53899-P; Fundacion Biodiversidad; ARC Future Fellowship, Grant/Award Number: FT100100819; REMEDINAL3-CM, Grant/Award Number: P2013/MAE-2719