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Species across these communities fit within the same trophic guilds and families and can be found at the same sites, raising the question of how these species can coexist.<\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>We calculated mean isotopic niche breadth and overlap of the communities at these sites and used general linear models to test two hypotheses: in communities with greater species richness, (1) populations will be (a) more specialized and\/or (b) overlap between populations will increase (sensu niche packing), or (2) community niche space will increase (sensu niche expansion).<\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>We found significant heterogeneity in niche breadth at the population level and significant heterogeneity in overlap across sites. Jamaican cave\u2010roosting bat communities achieve coexistence through niche packing and not through niche expansion. We found support for niche packing through increasing overlap in some groups and no evidence for niche packing through specialization. More speciose sites had greater overlap among populations within the same cave and lower nearest neighbour distance, suggesting packing within the community niche space.<\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>Our results demonstrate niche packing as the operative mechanism of coexistence among diverse Jamaican bat caves.<\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:list-item>\n                    <\/jats:list>\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/1365-2656.70349","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,21]],"date-time":"2026-09-21T12:20:29Z","timestamp":1789993229000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Niche occupancy of Jamaican bat caves: Diversity increases isotopic niche packing"],"prefix":"10.1111","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9152-1658","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Phillip J.","family":"Oelbaum","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cell and Systems Biology University of Toronto  Toronto Ontario Canada"},{"name":"Department of Biological Sciences University of Toronto Scarborough  Toronto Ontario Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ronald P.","family":"Hall","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Natural Sciences University of California Merced  Merced California USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Damion L.","family":"Whyte","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life Sciences University of the West Indies Mona  Kingston Jamaica"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nicholas A.","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Life Sciences University of the West Indies Mona  Kingston Jamaica"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ronald S.","family":"Stewart","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Jamaican Caves Organisation  Ewarton Jamaica"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jerrica M.","family":"Jamison","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cell and Systems Biology University of Toronto  Toronto Ontario Canada"},{"name":"Department of Biological Sciences University of Toronto Scarborough  Toronto Ontario Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"suffix":"Jr.","given":"Kenneth C.","family":"Welch","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cell and Systems Biology University of Toronto  Toronto Ontario Canada"},{"name":"Department of Biological Sciences University of Toronto Scarborough  Toronto Ontario Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,21]]},"reference":[{"issue":"1","key":"e_1_2_13_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"44","DOI":"10.2307\/1937153","article-title":"Some comments on measuring niche overlap","volume":"61","author":"Abrams P.","year":"1980","journal-title":"Ecology"},{"key":"e_1_2_13_3_1","volume-title":"Bats","author":"Allen G. 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