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resource partitioning

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  • maryw commented on the word resource partitioning

    When wolves disappeared from Yellowstone decades ago, coyotes would eat food normally eaten by wolves. When wolves were returned to Yellowstone, the coyotes went back to eating coyote-sized food. In the behavioral ecology trade, this is called resource partitioning.
    Raymond Coppinger & Lorna Coppinger, What Is a Dog? (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2016), p. 82

    February 21, 2025