Trait-based life strategies, ecological niches, and niche overlap in the nekton of the data-poor Mediterranean Sea - Figure 5

Frequencies of species distributed in Posidonia beds (a1 and a2), coralligène formations (b), and lagoons (c) according to the pairs of distances with the other species of the same habitat based on the 10 traits used. (d) Frequencies of the average distances of the Lessepsian species according to the pairs of distances with all the indigenous species of the dataset based on the 10 traits used. The smaller the distance was between two species, the highest niche overlap they were considered to have and thus the highest competition for all resource types.