%0 Journal Article
%T ThecoexistenceofsevensympatricfulvettasinAilaoMountains,EjiaTown,YunnanProvince
%A Ji XIA
%A Fei WU
%A Wan-Zhao HU
%A Jian-Ling FANG
%A Xiao-Jun YANG
%J 动物学研究
%P 18-28
%D 2015
%R 10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2015.1.18
%X Thecoexistenceofecologicallysimilarspeciessharingsympatricareasisacentralissueofcommunityecology.Nichedifferentiationisrequiredatleastinonedimensiontoavoidcompetitiveexclusion.From2012-2014,byadoptingthemethodsofmist-netsandpointcountstoevaluatespatialnichepartitioningandmorphologicaldifferentiations,weexploredthecoexistencemechanismsofsevensympatricfulvettasinAilaoMountains,Ejiatown,YunnanProvince,China.Themicrohabitatsofthesesevenfulvettasweresignificantlydifferentinelevation,roostsiteheightandvegetationcoverage,indicatingaspatialnichesegregationindifferentlevels.Approximately,90.30%ofthesampleswerecorrectlyclassifiedbylineardiscriminantanalysis(LDA)withcorrectratesat91.20%-100%,excepttheWhite-browedfulvetta(Alcippevinipectus)(65.4%)andtheStreak-throatedfulvetta(A.cinereiceps)(74.6%).Thesevenfulvettaswereclassifiedintofourguildsbasedontheirspecificmorphologicalcharacters,suggestingthatthespeciesineachguildusetheiruniquefeedingwaystorealizeresourcepartitioningintheoverlappedareas.Thesefindingindicatethatthroughmulti-dimensionalspatialnichesegregationanddivergenceinresourceutilizing,theinter-specificcompetitionamongthesesevenfulvettasisminimized,whereas,coexistenceispromoted.
%K Fulvettas
%K Coexistence
%K Nichesegregation
%K AilaoMountains
%U http://www.zoores.ac.cn/CN/abstract/abstract3558.shtml