Patterns and Processes in Ecology

Lecture 3 – How Species Coexist

by Robert M. Pringle, PhD

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1. Introduction and start of Lecture Two
2. Community ecology and the competitive coexistence paradox
3. Spatial niche partitioning avoids competitive exclusion
4. Dietary niche partitioning in browser/grazer continuum
5. Niche partitioning based on browsing height
6. Successive grazing allows temporal partitioning
7. Do herbivores partition by eating different plant species?
8. Herbivore diet preferences identified by DNA barcoding
9. How to collect herbivore dung for DNA barcoding
10. Using DNA barcoding data to untangle the herbivore food web
11. Herbivore niches are partitioned by plant species eaten
12. The conventional view of niche partitioning is incomplete
13. Real-time DNA sequencing technology in the field
14. Q&A: Does herbivore diet choice depend on rainfall?
15. Q&A: What are the limits of DNA barcoding?
16. Q&A: Are there types of niche partitioning we don't know about yet?

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