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What are the five species of denroica warblers?

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Cape may
myrtle
black throated green
black bumian
bay-breasted

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What is the aim of the warbler paper?

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looking at how closely related bird species coexist in the same habitat without directly outcompeting each other

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How do warblers coexist?

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by partitioning resources spatially and behavioraly
each species forages in different parts of the same trees, reducing interspecific competition

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What did MacArthur propose?

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Natural selection favoured divergence in foraging strategies to allow stable coexistence

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What is the vascular plants paper about?

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How SAR for vascular plants in North America varies along a latitudinal gradient
- How z-value changed with latitude

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What were the results of the vascular plant paper?

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Higher z-values found at lower latitudes - in tropical regions species richness increases more rapidly with area

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What do the results of SAR paper indicate?

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greater habitat heterogeneity or niche specialisation in lower latitudes

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