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Background Coexistence is enabled by ecological differentiation of the cooccurring species. One possible mechanism thereby is resource partitioning, where each species utilizes a distinct subset of the most limited resource. This resource partitioning is difficult to investigate using empirical research in nature, as only a few species are primarily limited by solely one resource, rather than a combination of multiple factors.
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Steibl, S. (2020). Shell Resource Partitioning as a Mechanism of Coexistence in two Co-occurring Terrestrial Hermit Crab Species. In: Terrestrial Hermit Crab Populations in the Maldives. BestMasters. Springer Spektrum, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29541-7_2
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