Food webs reveal coexistence mechanisms and community organization in carnivores
Jan. 20, 2023
Dr. Meng Yao published a paper in Current Biology.
•Dietary niche partitioning is widespread among sympatric large and mesocarnivores
•Body masses of the carnivores and their prey showed a hump-shaped correlation
•Network analysis uncovered pikas, bharal, and yak as keystone prey in the food webs
•Dietary metabarcoding integrated with network framework helps understand ecosystems
Original link: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gS6d3QW8R%7EfqS.