Editing Nocturnality (section)

===Resource competition===
[[File:Honey Badger (Mellivora capensis) (17425848662).jpg|thumb|The [[honey badger]], a nocturnal animal.]]
Being active at night is a form of [[niche differentiation]], where a species' niche is partitioned not by the amount of resources but by the amount of time (i.e. temporal division of the [[ecological niche]]). [[Hawk|Hawks]] and [[owl|owls]] can hunt the same field or meadow for the same rodents without conflict because hawks are diurnal and owls are nocturnal.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-19 |title=Are All Owls Nocturnal? All the Best FACTS Here! |url=https://birdsatfirstsight.com/are-all-owls-nocturnal/ |access-date=2023-09-14 |website=Birds At First Sight |language=en-US}}</ref> This means they are not in competition for each other's prey. Another niche that being nocturnal lessens competition within is [[pollination]] - nocturnal pollinators such as moths, beetles, thrips, and bats have a lower risk of being seen by predators, and the plants evolved temporal scent production and ambient heat to attract nocturnal pollination. <ref>{{cite journal |title=Nocturnal pollination: an overlooked ecosystem service vulnerable to environmental change |journal=Emerging Topics in Life Sciences |date=2020-06-01 |last1=Macgregor |first1=Callum J. |last2=Scott-Brown |first2=Alison S. |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=19–32 |doi=10.1042/ETLS20190134 |pmid=32478390 |pmc=7326339 |url=https://portlandpress.com/emergtoplifesci/article/4/1/19/225093/Nocturnal-pollination-an-overlooked-ecosystem |accessdate=2021-08-28 }}</ref> Like with predators hunting the same prey, some plants such as apples can be pollinated both during the day and at night. <ref>{{cite journal |title=Nocturnal Pollinators Significantly Contribute to Apple Production |journal=Journal of Economic Entomology |date=2021-07-02 |last1=Robertson |first1=Stephen |last2=Dowling |first2=Ashley |last3=Wiedenmann |first3=Robert |last4=Joshi |first4=Neelendra |last5=Westerman |first5=Erica |volume=114 |issue=5 |pages=2155–2161 |doi=10.1093/jee/toab145 |pmid=34293132 |doi-access=free }}</ref>