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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.