Fig. 1: Niche partitioning of Pipistrellus kuhlii and P. nathusii across habitat, time and resource use.
From: How individual variation shapes ecological niches in two Pipistrellus bat species
Orange colours indicate P. kuhlii (n = 34), and green colours indicate P. nathusii (n = 24). Points refer to posterior means and lines to 95% credible intervals (CIs). Panel A shows the selection of six different land cover categories by P. nathusii compared to P. kuhlii (vertical orange line). “Complex CPs” refers to the land cover category “Complex Cultivation Patterns”. CIs indicate significant differences in the selection of forests and arable land between P. nathusii and P. kuhlii. Panel B focuses on the interaction between time and habitat type of P. kuhlii and P. nathusii. Note that the x-axis in this panel has a finer scale (0.01 units) compared to the upper panel (0.1 units). Pipistrellus kuhlii selected reed beds, vineyards and arable land significantly earlier than P. nathusii. Panel C shows a non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination of insect genera detected in the guano of 15 P. kuhlii (orange points) and 15 P. nathusii (green triangles). The ellipses around each species represent the 95% confidence ellipses of the NMDS. The icons are hand-drawn and vectorised in Inkscape 1.2.
