The Ecological Significance of Sexual Dimorphism in Size in the Lizard Anolis conspersus.
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...Previous studies have found evidence for intersexual niche partitioning in some cases (e.g. Anolis conspersus: Schoener 1967) and not in others (e.g. Carlia skinks: Manicom et al. 2014) based on prey size alone....
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...For example, precise diet profiles for sympatric male and female lizards would aid in evaluating the hypothesis that sexual size dimorphism evolved in part to minimize intraspecific resource overlap (Schoener 1967; Shine 1989; Manicom et al. 2014)....
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...Most of what is known about lizard diets has been learned by sacrificing and dissecting animals (Wolcott 1923; Schoener 1967, 1968; Andrews 1979; Spiller & Schoener 1990; Huang et al. 2008), which is problematic in the context of longitudinal field studies....
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...On the basis of essentially the same pattern of staining, other investigators have reached the same conclusion (3, 4), or have attributed staining additionally or alternatively to the processes of the bipolar cells (5, 6), the ganglion cells (4, 5), or centrifugal fibers from the optic nerve (7)....
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...A greater proportion of large insects were found in larger adult males than in adult females of Anolis lineatopus and Agama agama (4, 5); similarly, juveniles take smaller food than adults (5-7)....
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