Soil preference in blind mole rats in an area of supposed sympatric speciation: do they choose the fertile or the familiar?

Agriculture & Biology

• sympatric speciation 100%
• mole rats 99%
• soil 35%
• burrows 23%
• basaltic soils 19%
• reproductive isolation 11%
• Spalax 8%
• burrowing 6%
• habitats 6%
• sympatry 5%
• soil types 5%
• breeding season 4%
• biomass 3%
• animals 2%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• Rendzina 33%
• soil 29%
• burrow 22%
• reproductive isolation 15%
• natal dispersal 8%
• olfactory cue 8%
• hard soil 7%
• sympatry 7%
• habitat 6%
• burrowing 5%
• food supply 5%
• soil type 4%
• energetics 4%
• food 3%
• animal 3%
• biomass 3%
• cost 2%