Niche overlap and resource partitioning among five sympatric bufonids (Anura, Bufonidae) from northeastern Argentina
Citations
9 citations
8 citations
8 citations
Cites background from "Niche overlap and resource partitio..."
...The lack of a significant relationship between number of prey items and SVL detected for R. hoogmoedi has been observed in other species (Duré et al., 2009; Lima et al., 2010)....
[...]
...hoogmoedi has been observed in other species (Duré et al., 2009; Lima et al., 2010)....
[...]
7 citations
7 citations
Cites background from "Niche overlap and resource partitio..."
...Amphibians play important roles in the food webs of ecosystems because they represent a link between terrestrial and aquatic environments [2,3]....
[...]
References
10,215 citations
5,689 citations
"Niche overlap and resource partitio..." refers methods in this paper
...Relationships between microhabitat and diet and foraging strategy for these five species were tested through a canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) (Ter Braak 1986, 1987)....
[...]
3,628 citations
"Niche overlap and resource partitio..." refers methods in this paper
...For numerical data we calculated niche breadth using the Levins Index (Levins 1968): Nb Pij= ∑ −( )2 1 , where Pij represents the probability of finding the item i in the sample j....
[...]
...For numerical data we calculated niche breadth using the Levins Index (Levins 1968):...
[...]
3,626 citations
"Niche overlap and resource partitio..." refers background in this paper
...The degree of niche differentiation among species in the same trophic level depends on many factors, been prey availability one of the most relevant (Pianka 1969, Schoener 1974, 1989)....
[...]
2,406 citations
"Niche overlap and resource partitio..." refers methods in this paper
...We calculated dietary overlaps in two ways by considering the food proportions and the volume of each prey with the formula (Pianka 1973): O P P P P jk ij ik i n ij ik i n i n = = == ∑ ∑∑ 1 2 2 11 , where Pij and Pik are the proportions of utilization of the ith food resource by the jth and kth…...
[...]
...We calculated dietary overlaps in two ways by considering the food proportions and the volume of each prey with the formula (Pianka 1973):...
[...]