Studying animal niches using bulk stable isotope ratios: an updated synthesis

ON Shipley, P Matich - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
The development of the isotopic niche, an n-dimensional hypervolume (with n being the
number of isotopes) occupied by a population in delta space, has revolutionized the study of …

The ecology and evolution of the monito del monte, a relict species from the southern South America temperate forests

FE Fontúrbel, LM Franco, F Bozinovic… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The arboreal marsupial monito del monte (genus Dromiciops, with two recognized species)
is a paradigmatic mammal. It is the sole living representative of the order Microbiotheria, the …

Trophic ecology of large herbivores in a reassembling African ecosystem

J Pansu, JA Guyton, AB Potter, JL Atkins… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Megafauna assemblages have declined or disappeared throughout much of the world, and
many efforts are underway to restore them. Understanding the trophic ecology of such …

DNA metabarcoding and spatial modelling link diet diversification with distribution homogeneity in European bats

A Alberdi, O Razgour, O Aizpurua… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Inferences of the interactions between species' ecological niches and spatial distribution
have been historically based on simple metrics such as low-resolution dietary breadth and …

Are you really what you eat? Stomach content analysis and stable isotope ratios do not uniformly estimate dietary niche characteristics in three marine predators

JC Petta, ON Shipley, SP Wintner, G Cliff, ML Dicken… - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
Calculation of dietary niche characteristics using stable isotopes has become a popular
approach to understand the functional role of taxa across food webs. An underlying …

Foraging history of individual elephants using DNA metabarcoding

BA Gill, G Wittemyer, TE Cerling… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Individual animals should adjust diets according to food availability. We used DNA
metabarcoding to construct individual-level dietary timeseries for elephants from two family …

The dimensionality of individual niche variation

T Ingram, R Costa‐Pereira, MS Araújo - Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The inherently multidimensional nature of the niche has not yet been integrated into the
investigation of individual niche specialization within populations. We propose a framework …

Are stable isotope ratios suitable for describing niche partitioning and individual specialization?

P Matich, JJ Bizzarro, ON Shipley - Ecological Applications, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As concerns about anthropogenic and natural disturbance grow, understanding animal
resource use patterns has been increasingly prioritized to predict how changes in …

Competition shapes individual foraging and survival in a desert rodent ensemble

PJ Manlick, K Maldonado… - Journal of Animal …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Intraspecific variation, including individual diet variation, can structure populations and
communities, but the causes and consequences of individual foraging strategies are often …

Interspecific and interpopulation variation in individual diet specialization: Do environmental factors have a role?

E Lunghi, R Manenti, F Cianferoni, F Ceccolini… - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Individual diet specialization (IS) has important community‐and population‐level
implications and its ecological drivers are actively investigated. Here, to test the hypothesis …