Incoprea Theory
Vol. XXIX · 109

Theory 50/New analysis/Camera traps

Overlap Predicts Competition

The claim

Temporal activity overlap between species predicts competitive exclusion better than spatial overlap.

01Mechanism

Species that cannot partition time cannot coexist at the same place.

02Prediction

Exclusion should track temporal overlap.

03Refutation

Exclusion tracking spatial overlap would remove time.