But how do such niche differences maintain species diversity? Envision a scenario ... routes must be sufficiently different, which in ecological language would be expressed as the need for the ...

Niche differences ... of species in neutral models fluctuate randomly over time leading to ecological drift, where diversity is due to unstable coexistence and the balance between extinction ...

As Peters (1991) piercingly explains (see Overview) the ecological diversity debates have been plagued by imprecise ... interspecific competition and niche partitioning results in high diversity), and ...