Nonrandom co-occurrence patterns of rainforest chameleons

African Journal of Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 336-346

  Luiselli, Luca ^a  

^a FIZV   (Italy)

Author keywords

Africa; Chameleon; Community structure; Ecology; Lizard; Null models

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; LIZARD; MONTANE FOREST; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RAINFOREST;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

CHAMAELEONIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 34547265361     PISSN: 01416707     EISSN: 13652028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2006.00715.x     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Akani, G.C., Capizzi, D. Luiselli, L. (2002a) Community ecology of scincid lizards in a swamp rainforest of south-eastern Nigeria. Russ. J. Herp. 9, 125 134.
2. Akani, G.C., Ogbalu, O.K. Luiselli, L. (2002b) Life-history and ecological distribution of chameleons (Reptilia, Chamaeleonidae) from the rain forests of Nigeria: conservation implications. Anim. Biodiv. Cons. 24, 1 15.
3. Barbault, R. (1987) Pression de predation et évolution des stratégies démographiques en zone tropicale: le cas des lézards et des amphibiens. Rev. Zool. Afr. 101, 301 327.
4. Barbault, R. (1991) Ecological constraints and community dynamics: linking community patterns to organismal ecology. The case of tropical herpetofaunas. Acta Oecol. 12, 139 163.
5. Feinsinger, P., Spears, E.E. Poole, R.W. (1981) A simple measure of niche overlap. Ecology 62, 27 32.
6. Friggens, M.H. Brown, J.H. (2005) Niche partitioning in the cestode communities of two elasmobranches. Oikos 108, 76 84.
7. Gotelli, N.J. (2000) Null model analysis of species co-occurrence patterns. Ecology 81, 2606 2621.
8. Gotelli, N.J. Ellison, A.M. (2002) Assembly rules for New England ant assemblages. Oikos 99, 591 599.
9. Gotelli, N.J. Entsminger, E.J. (2003) Ecosim: Null Model Software for Ecology. Aquired Intelligence Inc., New York.
10. Gotelli, N.J. Graves, G.R. (1996) Null Models in Ecology. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
11. Gotelli, N.J. McCabe, D.J. (2002) Species co-occurrence: a meta-analysis of J.M. Diamond's assembly rule. Ecology 83, 2091 2096.
12. Gotelli, N.J. Rohde, K. (2002) Co-occurrence of ectoparasites of marine fishes: a null model analysis. Ecol. Lett. 5, 86 94.
13. Gotelli, N.J., Buckley, N.J. Wiens, J.A. (1997) Co-occurrence of Australian land-birds: Diamond's assembly rules revisited. Oikos 80, 311 324.
14. Hofer, U., Bersier, L.-F. Borcard, D. (1999) Spatial organization of a herpetofauna on a altitudinal gradient revealed by null model tests. Ecology 80, 976 988.
15. Hofer, U., Baur, H. Bersier, L.-F. (2003) Ecology of three sympatric species of the genus Chamaeleo in a tropical upland forest in Cameroon. J. Herpetol. 37, 203 207.
16. Howard, K.E. Hailey, A. (1999) Microhabitat separation among diurnal saxicolous lizards in Zimbabwe. J. Trop. Ecol. 15, 367 378.
17. Huey, R.B. Pianka, E.R. (1977) Patterns of niche overlap among broadly sympatric versus narrowly sympatric Kalahari lizards (Scincidae: Mabuya). Ecology 58, 119 128.
18. Klaver, C. Böhme, W. (1992) The species of the Chamaeleo cristatus species-group from Cameroon and adjacent countries, West Africa. Bonn. Zool. Beitr. 43, 433 476.
19. Klaver, C. Böhme, W. (1997) Chamaeleonidae. Tierreich 112, 1 85.
20. Lawlor, L.R. (1980) Structure and stability in natural and randomly constructed competitive communities. Am. Nat. 116, 394 408.
21. Luiselli, L. (2006a) Resource partitioning and inter-specific competition in snakes: the search for general geographical and guild patterns. Oikos 114, 193 211.
22. Luiselli, L. (2006b) Resource partitioning in the communities of terrestrial turtles: a review of the evidences. Rev. Ecol. (Terre et Vie) 61, in press.
23. Luiselli, L. (2006c) Site occupancy and density of sympatric Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica) and nose-horned viper (Bitis nasicornis). J. Trop. Ecol. 22, 555 564.
24. Luiselli, L. (2006d) Inter-specific relationships between two species of sympatric Afrotropical water snake in relation to a seasonally fluctuating food resource. J. Trop. Ecol. 22, 91 100.
25. Luiselli, L. (2006e) Food niche overlap between sympatric potential competitors increases with habitat alteration at different trophic levels in rain-forest reptiles (omnivorous tortoises and carnivorous vipers). J. Trop. Ecol. 22, 695 704.
26. Luiselli, L. Akani, G.C. (2002) An investigation into the composition, complexity and functioning of snake communities in the mangroves of south-eastern Nigeria. Afr. J. Ecol. 40, 220 227.
27. Luiselli, L., Akani, G.C. Capizzi, D. (1998) Food resource partitioning of a community of snakes in a swamp rainforest of south-eastern Nigeria. J. Zool. (Lond.) 246, 125 133.
28. Luiselli, L., Eniang, E.A. Akani, G.C. (2007) Non-random structure of a guild of geckos in a fragmented, human altered, African rainforest. Ecol. Res., in press.
29. Moore, R.D. (1996) Diet and niche differentiation in sympatric and parapatric chameleons of the Kupe and Manenguba Mountains, Cameroon. Unpublished Honours Thesis, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland.
30. Mouillot, D., George-Nascimento, M. Poulin, R. (2005) Richness, structure and functioning in metazoan parasite communities. Oikos 109, 447 460.
31. Necas, P. (2004) Chameleons. Chimaira Edition, Frankfurt am Main.
32. Necas, P. Schmidt, W. (2004) Stump-tailed Chameleons. Chimaira Edition, Frankfurt am Main.
33. Pianka, E.R. (1973) The structure of lizard communities. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 4, 53 74.
34. Pianka, E.R. (1986) Ecology and Natural History of desert lizards. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
35. Simbotwe, M.P. (1984) Resource partitioning in a woodland reptile community of the Kafue flats, Zambia. Afr. J. Ecol. 22, 281 287.
36. Stone, L. Roberts, A. (1990) The checkerboard score and species distributions. Oecologia 85, 74 79.
37. Tilbury, C.R. (1997) African chameleons: an overview of systematics and biology. In: Herpetology '97, Prague (Ed. Z. Rocek S. Hart) Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
38. Toft, C.A. (1985) Resource partitioning in amphibians and reptiles. Copeia, 1985, 1 21.
39. Wahungu, G.M., Mumia, E.N. Nzau, V.N. (2004) An analysis of the niche of two sympatric lizard species Gerrhosaurus flavigularis and Latastia longicauda at an arid savannah habitat in Kenya. Afr. J. Ecol. 42, 368 371.
40. Western, D. (1974) The distribution, density and biomass density of lizards in a semi-arid environment of northern Kenya. East Afr. Wildl. J. 12, 49 62.
41. Wild, C. (1993) Notes on the rediscovery and congeneric associations of the pfeffer's chameleon Chamaeleo pfefferi Tornier, 1900 (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae) with a brief description of the hitherto unknown female of the species. Br. Herp. Soc. Bull. 45, 25 32.
42. Wild, C. (1994a) Ecology of the western pygmy chameleon Rhampholeon spectrum Buchholz 1874 (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae). Br. Herp. Soc. Bull. 49, 29 35.
43. Wild, C. (1994b) The status and ecology of the montane herpetofauna of Mt. Oku, Cameroon, Africa. ASRA J. 1994, 73 91.
44. Winemiller, K.O. Pianka, E.R. (1990) Organization in natural assemblages of desert lizards and tropical fishes. Ecol. Monogr. 60, 27 55.
45. Znari, M., Mouden, E.E., Benfaida, H. Boumezzough, A. (2000) Spatial and trophic resource partitioning among an insectivorous lizard community in the central Jbilet mountains (Western Morocco). Rev. Ecol. (Terre et Vie) 55, 141 160.