Distinguished Professor at Princeton University
Princeton University researchers deployed a new tool to help solve an old puzzle: How can multiple animals coexist while eating the same resources? They used "DNA metabarcoding" to determine the specific plants that herbivores inhabiting the Kenyan savanna eat. They found that the animals have distinct diets that allow them to inhabit in the same area without strong competition. This correlation of animal diets with specific plant compositions is already changing how people think about biodiversity and species conservation.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." —Carl Sagan