Resource Switching and Species Coexistence in Guenons: A Community Analysis of Dietary Flexibility

Abstract

Summary Competition is generally viewed to be an important variable in structuring communities of closely related species occupying similar trophic space and may be most intense over limiting resources. Here, I have evaluated how cercopithecoids with extensive dietary overlap coexist. I examined species patterns of resource switching and expected species differences that relate to differences in digestive strategies between colobines and cercopithecines. Overall, the three cercopithecines had higher frequencies of resource …