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Niche Partitioning

Topic
  • Anatomy & Physiology
  • Animal Behavior
  • Ecology
  • Communities
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  • Videos
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High School — GeneralHigh School — AP/IBCollege
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00:04:13
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This video introduces the concept of niche partitioning with examples drawn from the African savanna.

Ecologist Robert Pringle explains the main ways in which large mammalian herbivores that coexist in the African savanna — including giraffes, zebras, and wildebeest — partition their habitat to reduce competition. He provides examples of herbivores partitioning their habitat by space (spatial niche partitioning) and diet (dietary niche partitioning), the latter of which may involve dividing food resources based on time or height.

This clip is from a 2015 Holiday Lecture Series, Patterns and Processes in Ecology.

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Key Terms

biodiversity, browser, competition, facilitation, grazer, grazing succession, Serengeti, species coexistence

Primary Literature

Kartzinel, Tyler R., Patricia A. Chen, Tyler C. Coverdale, David L. Erickson, W. John Kress, Maria L. Kuzmina, Daniel I. Rubenstein, et al. “DNA metabarcoding illuminates dietary niche partitioning by African large herbivores.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, 26 (2015): 8019–8024. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1503283112.

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Version History
Date Published 05.15.16
Date Updated 05.15.16
Materials
HD (M4V) 137 MB
HD (WMV) 132 MB
SD (M4V) 35 MB
SD (WMV) 36 MB

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