Amanda Kaylyn Matthews's research while affiliated with Angelo State University and other places

... Niche theory predicts that the stable coexistence of morphologically and ecologically similar species in a community depends on resource partitioning to minimize competition (Hutchinson, 1959;Schoener, 1974;Chesson, 2000;Letten et al., 2017). In recent years, numerous studies have shown that trophic niche differentiation often plays a key role in shaping the structure of animal communities (Holt, 2009;Matthews et al., 2010;Codron et al., 2015;Novella-Fernandez et al., 2020), especially for sympatric closely related species. This knowledge can be vital to the understanding of diet composition, interspecific competition, and the mechanism of trophic niche differentiation (Salinas-Ramos et al., 2015;Arrizabalaga-Escudero et al., 2018). ...

... for example, N. macrotis displayed a unimodal pattern with an extended peak covering midnight and Table 1.-Unimodal and multimodal departures from a uniform or random distribution within a 12-h night evaluated through Rayleigh and Hermans-Rasson tests, respectively. Rayleigh test statistic (mean resultant length: r), Hermans-Rasson test statistic (V), P-value (P), and statistical significancy (Sig.) are presented: *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001. is known to feed primarily on moths (Easterla and Whitaker 1972;Sparks and Valdez 2003;Debelica et al. 2006), suggesting a unimodal activity period for moths (Rydell et al. 1996). Unfortunately, information on diet is also largely unknown for several Neotropical species that have none or only one dietary study with insufficient sampling, and others have locally variable consumption rates (Supplementary Data SD2). ...