Size assortment in new world bat communities

Richard D. Stevens; Michael R. Willig

doi:10.2307/1383309

Size assortment in new world bat communities

Richard D. Stevens, Michael R. Willig

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Abstract

We evaluated ubiquity of morphological overdispersion, which is characteristic of competitive interactions, in feeding guilds from 15 bat communities from North, Central, and South America. Overdispersion was detected in 10 of 15 communities and 4 of 5 feeding guilds. Although overdispersed morphological patterns exist, they are not a consistent attribute of the structure of feeding guilds within bat communities. Because of factors ranging from environmental attributes such as heterogeneity to species-specific attributes such as high mobility, morphological overdispersion in bats may at best only be a transitory outcome of the effect of competitive interactions on community structure.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	644-658
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Mammalogy
Volume	80
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/1383309
State	Published - May 1999

Keywords

Bats
Community structure
Competition
Ecomorphology
Feeding guild
Meta-analysis
Morphometrics
Null model

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