Oribatid mites reveal that competition for resources and trophic structure combine to regulate the assembly of diverse soil animal communities

Abstract The role of niche partitioning in structuring species‐rich soil animal communities has been debated for decades and generated the “enigma of soil animal diversity.” More recently, resource‐based niche partitioning has been hypothesized to play a very limited role in the assembly of soil ani...

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Main Authors: Matthew Magilton, Mark Maraun, Mark Emmerson, Tancredi Caruso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-07-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5409