| scramble or contest competition over food in solitarily foraging mouse lemurs (microcebus spp.): new insights from stable isotopes. | the relationships between resource distribution, type of competition, and consequences for social organization have been formalized in the socioecological model (sem) which predicts that ecological factors are the main determinants of female distribution. we tested this basic prediction in two solitary primates (microcebus berthae and m. murinus) which differ in female association patterns. using stable nitrogen and carbon isotope data of hair samples and food sources we quantified inter-specifi ... | 2010 | 19591211 |
| small-scale coexistence of two mouse lemur species (microcebus berthae and m. murinus) within a homogeneous competitive environment. | understanding the co-occurrence of ecologically similar species remains a puzzling issue in community ecology. the species-rich mouse lemurs (microcebus spec.) are distributed over nearly all remaining forest areas of madagascar with a high variability in species distribution patterns. locally, many congeneric species pairs seem to co-occur, but only little detailed information on spatial patterns is available. here, we present the results of an intensive capture-mark-recapture study of sympatri ... | 2008 | 18574599 |