Behavioral niche partitioning in a sympatric tiger beetle assemblage and implications for the endangered Salt Creek tiger beetle

How behavioral patterns are related to niche partitioning is an important question in understanding how closely related species within ecological communities function. Behavioral niche partitioning associated with thermoregulation is well documented in tiger beetles as a group. Co-occurring species...

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Main Authors: Tierney R. Brosius, Leon G. Higley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2013-09-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/169.pdf