#sympatry — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sympatry, aggregated by home.social.
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Some findings show that speciation rates and the degree of sympatry increase with latitude, while species richness decreases. Harmáčková & Remeš find that syntopy is higher but is unrelated to local species richness. Read now for free ahead of print!
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#Human #activity can be a factor in allowing #sympatry of similar #species. Case-in-point, giant and neotropical otters in the #Amazon.
In this new study, Norris and Michalski (2023) observed that #giant #otters tended to avoid human activity while #neotropical otters did not.
OA 🔗 https://peerj.com/articles/15742/
We #influence our #ecosystems in many ways. While not always and inevitably detrimental, we need to be aware of our #impacts.