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Resource Partitioning in Ecological Communities: Research on how similar species divide resources helps reveal the natural regulation of species diversity.
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To understand resource partitioning, essentially a community phenomenon, we require a holistic theory that draws upon models at the individual and population level. Yet some investigators are still content mainly to document differences between species, a procedure of only limited interest. Therefore, it may be useful to conclude with a list of questions appropriate for studies of resource partitioning, questions this article has related to the theory in a preliminary way. 1) What is the mechanism of competition? What is the relative importance of predation? Are differences likely to be caused by pressures toward reproductive isolation? 2) Are niches (utilizations) regularly spaced along a single dimension? 3) How many dimensions are important, and is there a tendency for more dimensions to be added as species number increases? 4) Is dimensional separation complementary? 5) Which dimensions are utilized, how do they rank in importance, and why? How do particular dimensions change in rank as species nuimber increases? 6) What is the relation of dimensional separation to difference in phenotypic indicators? To what extent does the functional relation of phenotype to resource characteristics constrain partitioning? 7) What is the distance between mean position of niches, what is the niche standard deviation, and what is the ratio of the two? What is the niche shape?
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- Authors
- Schoener, T. W.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Schoener, Thomas W.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1974-07-05
- Volume
- 185
- Issue
- 4145
- Pages
- 27-39
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2034690972
- Cited by
- 4,129
- References
- 141
- Citations by year
- 2026: 174 · 2025: 168 · 2024: 149 · 2023: 162 · 2022: 176 · 2021: 181 · 2020: 177 · 2019: 168 · 2018: 149 · 2017: 140 · 2016: 136 · 2015: 139 · 2014: 108 · 2013: 128 · 2012: 114
- FWCI
- 49.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Applied Mathematics › Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Keywords
- resource partitioning, ecological communities, interspecific competition, niche overlap, niche breadth, predation, reproductive isolation, phenotypic variability, species number, community theory
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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