Carving out turf in a biodiversity hotspot: multiple, previously unrecognized shrew species co‐occur on Java Island, Indonesia

In theory, competition among species in a shared habitat results in niche separation. In the case of small recondite mammals such as shrews, little is known about their autecologies, leaving open questions regarding the degree to which closely related species co-occur and how or whether ecological niches are partitioned. The extent to which species are able to coexist may depend on the degree to which they exploit different features of their …