Sibling-like habitat specialization lets closely related species coexist in one genus

Evidence

The same specialization has taken place in Dicranum . By sidestepping competition, numerous species can coexist, each in a habitat that they don’t have to share with a sibling species, the mosses’ equivalent of “A Room of One’s Own.” — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 145

Categorization

• XREF: This is niche partitioning — the reader maps it onto the disturbance-history and ecosystem thread of the polyad. — connects to: Similar species can only coexist by diverging in some essential ecological way — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 362; Species in a habitat partition acoustic space into distinct non-overlapping bandwidths. — Bernie Krause and Almo Farina, Using Ecoacoustic Methods to Survey the…, 39; Closely related beetle species can differ sharply in horn possession — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 193
• CANDY: ‘A Room of One’s Own’ applied to moss niche partitioning is a light, quotable bridge between Woolf and ecology.

Broader Connections

• Species in a habitat partition acoustic space into distinct non-overlapping bandwidths. #exemplifies (0.80) — Bernie Krause and Almo Farina, Using Ecoacoustic Methods to Survey the…, 39
• Closely related beetle species can differ sharply in horn possession #exemplifies (0.78) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 193