Similar species commonly use limiting resources in different ways. Such resource partitioning helps to explain how seemingly similar species can coexist in the same ecological community without one ...

Species-rich plant communities seemingly contradict the competitive exclusion principle, a fundamental tenet of ecology that predicts that species occupying the same niche cannot coexist, or that the ...

Woodpeckers are a good example of resource partitioning: they share physical similarities but have specialized adaptations to let them coexist in a forest without competing for the same food. This ...