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Cooper, Natalie, Rob P. Freckleton, and Walter Jetz. "Phylogenetic conservatism of environmental niches in mammals." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278, no. 1716 (2011): 2384–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2207.

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Phylogenetic niche conservatism is the pattern where close relatives occupy similar niches, whereas distant relatives are more dissimilar. We suggest that niche conservatism will vary across clades in relation to their characteristics. Specifically, we investigate how conservatism of environmental niches varies among mammals according to their latitude, range size, body size and specialization. We use the Brownian rate parameter, σ 2 , to measure the rate of evolution in key variables related to the ecological niche and define the more conserved group as the one with the slower rate of evoluti

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Figueiredo, Giovanna Corrêa e., Karina Bohrer do Amaral, and Marcos César de Oliveira Santos. "Cetaceans along the southeastern Brazilian coast: occurrence, distribution and niche inference at local scale." PeerJ 8 (October 5, 2020): e10000. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10000.

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It is deemed important to understand cetacean occurrence and distribution to comprehend their ecological roles. The geographical occurrence of species’ niche can be used to better describe their potential distribution. The niche can be defined using environmental variables. Those variables are considered static and not affected by biological activities. The present study goal was to assess the occurrence and distribution of cetaceans along the southeastern Brazilian coast, as well as to define the fundamental and realized niche of each species and to investigate niche overlap at local scale. T

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Russell, Vanessa L., M. Henry H. Stevens, Addison A. Zeisler, and Tereza Jezkova. "Identifying regional environmental factors driving differences in climatic niche overlap in Peromyscus mice." Journal of Mammalogy 103, no. 1 (2021): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyab126.

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Abstract Different groups of taxa exhibit varying degree of climatic niche conservatism or divergence due to evolutionary constraints imposed on taxa and distributional relationships among them. Herein, we explore to what extent regional environmental conditions that taxa occupy affect climatic niche overlap between pairs of congeneric species of Peromyscus mice exhibiting allopatric, parapatric, or sympatric distributions. We used Bayesian generalized linear mixed models to identify environmental variables that best explain differences in climatic niche overlap between species. Our results su

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Litsios, Glenn, Loïc Pellissier, Félix Forest, et al. "Trophic specialization influences the rate of environmental niche evolution in damselfishes (Pomacentridae)." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, no. 1743 (2012): 3662–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1140.

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The rate of environmental niche evolution describes the capability of species to explore the available environmental space and is known to vary among species owing to lineage-specific factors. Trophic specialization is a main force driving species evolution and is responsible for classical examples of adaptive radiations in fishes. We investigate the effect of trophic specialization on the rate of environmental niche evolution in the damselfish, Pomacentridae, which is an important family of tropical reef fishes. First, phylogenetic niche conservatism is not detected in the family using a stan

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Stukenholtz, Erin E., and Richard D. Stevens. "The Relationship between Grinnellian and Eltonian Niche Characteristics and Passerine Distribution across a Latitudinal Gradient." Diversity 16, no. 6 (2024): 352. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d16060352.

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The degree to which Grinnellian and Eltonian niche characteristics influence species distribution may depend on latitude. Tropical regions are environmentally stable and resource-rich, whereas temperate regions are comparatively less environmentally stable (e.g., environmental filtering). Moreover, phylogenetic niche conservatism could influence distributions by inhibiting the ability for species to colonize environmentally different locations. Herein, we examine relationships between niche characteristics, passerine distributions, and phylogenetic niche conservatism across the latitudinal gra

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Ramírez-Albores, Jorge E., Gustavo Bizama, Ramiro O. Bustamante, and Ernesto I. Badano. "Niche conservatism in a plant with long invasion history: the case of the Peruvian peppertree (Schinus molle, Anacardiaceae) in Mexico." Plant Ecology and Evolution 153, no. 1 (2020): 3–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2020.1562.

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Background and aim – Invasive plants should only colonize habitats meeting the environmental conditions included in their native niches. However, if they invade habitats with novel environmental conditions, this can induce shifts in their niches. This may occur in plants with long invasion histories because they interacted with the environmental conditions of invaded regions over long periods of time. We focused on this issue and evaluated whether the niche of the oldest plant invader reported in Mexico, the Peruvian peppertree, is still conserved after almost 500 years of invasion history. Me

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Pagel, Jörn, Martina Treurnicht, William J. Bond, et al. "Mismatches between demographic niches and geographic distributions are strongest in poorly dispersed and highly persistent plant species." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 7 (2020): 3663–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908684117.

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The ecological niche of a species describes the variation in population growth rates along environmental gradients that drives geographic range dynamics. Niches are thus central for understanding and forecasting species’ geographic distributions. However, theory predicts that migration limitation, source–sink dynamics, and time-lagged local extinction can cause mismatches between niches and geographic distributions. It is still unclear how relevant these niche–distribution mismatches are for biodiversity dynamics and how they depend on species life-history traits. This is mainly due to a lack

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Ramírez-Albores, Jorge, Gustavo Bizama, Ramiro Bustamante, and Ernesto I. Badano. "Niche conservatism in a plant with long invasion history: the case of the Peruvian peppertree (Schinus molle, Anacardiaceae) in Mexico." Plant Ecology and Evolution 153, no. (1) (2020): 3–11. https://doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2020.1562.

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<b>Background and aim</b> – Invasive plants should only colonize habitats meeting the environmental conditions included in their native niches. However, if they invade habitats with novel environmental conditions, this can induce shifts in their niches. This may occur in plants with long invasion histories because they interacted with the environmental conditions of invaded regions over long periods of time. We focused on this issue and evaluated whether the niche of the oldest plant invader reported in Mexico, the Peruvian peppertree, is still conserved after almost 500 years of invasion hist

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Shenbrot, G., and B. Kryštufek. "Relation between the habitat niche breadth and the geographic range size: A case study on palearctic voles (Mammalia: Rodentia: Arvicolinae)." Povolzhskiy Journal of Ecology, no. 1 (May 18, 2021): 79–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.35885/1684-7318-2021-1-79-88.

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Habitat niche breadth for Palearctic Arvicolinae species was estimated at both local (α- niche) and global (the entire geographic range, γ-niche) scales using occurrence records of species and environmental (climate, topography, and vegetation) data. Niche breadth was estimated in the space of the first two principal components of environmental variables using kernel smoothing of the densities of species occurrence points. The breadth of α-niches was estimated for a set of random points inside the geographic range in a series of buffers of increasing size around these points. Within each buffe

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Walker, Richard. "“Niche Selection” and the Evolution of Complex Behavior in a Changing Environment—A Simulation." Artificial Life 5, no. 3 (1999): 271–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/106454699568782.

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One of the key problems in theoretical biology is the identification of the mechanisms underlying the evolution of complexity. This paper suggests that some difficulties in current models could be avoided by taking account of “niche selection” as proposed by Waddington [21] and subsequent authors [2]. Computer simulations, in which an evolving population of artificial organisms “selects” the niche(s) that maximize their fitness, are compared with a Control Model in which “Niche Selection” is absent. In the simulations the Niche Selection Model consistently produced a greater number of “fit” or

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Srivastava, Vivek, Wanwan Liang, Melody A. Keena, Amanda D. Roe, Richard C. Hamelin, and Verena C. Griess. "Assessing Niche Shifts and Conservatism by Comparing the Native and Post-Invasion Niches of Major Forest Invasive Species." Insects 11, no. 8 (2020): 479. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11080479.

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Invasive species experience biotic and abiotic conditions that may (or may not) resemble their native environment. We explored the methodology of determining climatic niches and compared the native and post-invasion niches of four invasive forest pests to determine if these species experienced shifts or changes in their new climatic niches. We used environmental principle components analysis (PCA-env) method to quantify climatic niche shifts, expansions, and temporal changes. Furthermore, we assessed the effect of variable selection in the delineation and comparison of niche space. We found th

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Lizardo, Viridiana, Erick Alejandro García Trejo, and Juan J. Morrone. "Niche conservatism and convergence in birds of three cenocrons in the Mexican Transition Zone." PeerJ 12 (January 2, 2024): e16664. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16664.

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Background The niche conservatism hypothesis postulates that physiological and phylogenetic factors constrain species distributions, creating richness hotspots with older lineages in ancestral climatic conditions. Conversely, niche convergence occurs when species successfully disperse to novel environments, diversifying and resulting in areas with high phylogenetic clustering and endemism, low diversity, and lower clade age. The Mexican Transition Zone exhibits both patterns as its biotic assembly resulted from successive dispersal events of different biotic elements called cenocrons. We test

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Johnston, T. A., A. D. Ehrman, G. L. Hamilton, B. K. Nugent, P. A. Cott, and J. M. Gunn. "Plenty of room at the bottom: niche variation and segregation in large-bodied benthivores of boreal lakes." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 76, no. 8 (2019): 1411–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0180.

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Realized trophic niches of aquatic consumers are expected to reflect the particular abiotic and biotic conditions of the ecosystems they occupy. We examined patterns in the position, size, and shape of trophic niches of two common benthivorous fishes, white sucker (Catostomus commersonii) and lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis), across boreal lakes using a stable isotope approach. In sympatry, white sucker niche positions reflected greater benthic reliance (higher δ13C) and lower trophic elevation (lower δ15N) compared with lake whitefish, and white sucker niche sizes (dispersion in δ13C–δ

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Bar-Massada, Avi. "Complex relationships between species niches and environmental heterogeneity affect species co-occurrence patterns in modelled and real communities." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282, no. 1813 (2015): 20150927. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0927.

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Species co-occurrence analysis is commonly used to assess how interspecific interactions dictate community assembly. Non-random co-occurrences, however, may also emerge from niche differences as well as environmental heterogeneity. The relationships between species co-occurrence patterns, environmental heterogeneity and species niches are not fully understood, due to complex interactions among them. To analyse the relationships among these patterns and processes, I developed synthetic community models and analysed a large dataset of tree species across the conterminous United States. Niche ove

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Hiller, Anna E., Michelle S. Koo, Kari R. Goodman, Kerry L. Shaw, Patrick M. O’Grady, and Rosemary G. Gillespie. "Niche conservatism predominates in adaptive radiation: comparing the diversification of Hawaiian arthropods using ecological niche modelling." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 127, no. 2 (2019): 479–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz023.

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Abstract The role of the environmental niche in fostering ecological divergence during adaptive radiation remains enigmatic. In this study, we examine the interplay between environmental niche divergence and conservatism in the context of adaptive radiation on oceanic islands, by characterizing the niche breadth of four Hawaiian arthropod radiations: Tetragnatha spiders (Tetragnathidae Latreille, 1804), Laupala crickets (Gryllidae Otte, 1994), a clade of Drosophila flies (Drosophilidae Fallén, 1823) and Nesosydne planthoppers (Delphacidae Kirkaldy, 1907). We assembled occurrence datasets for t

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Terradas, Jaume, Josep Peñuelas, and Francisco Lloret. "The Fluctuation Niche in Plants." International Journal of Ecology 2009 (2009): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/959702.

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Classical approaches to niche in coexisting plants have undervalued temporal fluctuations. We propose that fluctuation niche is an important dimension of the total niche and interacts with habitat and life-history niches to provide a better understanding of the multidimensional niche space where ecological interactions occur. To scale a fluctuation niche, it is necessary to relate environmental constrictions or species performance not only to the absolute values of the usual environmental and ecophysiological variables but also to their variances or other measures of variability. We use Medite

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Acanski, Jelena, Marija Milicic, Laura Likov, Dubravka Milic, Snezana Radenkovic, and Ante Vujic. "Environmental niche divergence of species from Merodon ruficornis group (Diptera: Syrphidae)." Archives of Biological Sciences 69, no. 2 (2017): 247–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/abs160303095a.

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In this paper we analyzed environmental differentiation of closely related species from the Merodon ruficornis group. By applying principal component analysis (PCA) and environmental niche modelling (ENM)-based techniques, we estimated the level of niche divergence of closely related species. Our results indicate that ecology has an important role in the diversification process in related species from the M. ruficornis group. Distribution patterns of all analyzed species are mainly affected by the limiting effects of the temperature of the coldest quarter and month, as well as by the precipita

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Sillero, Neftalí, Elena Argaña, Cátia Matos, Marc Franch, Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou, and Miguel A. Carretero. "Local Segregation of Realised Niches in Lizards." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 12 (2020): 764. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9120764.

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Species can occupy different realised niches when sharing the space with other congeneric species or when living in allopatry. Ecological niche models are powerful tools to analyse species niches and their changes over time and space. Analysing how species’ realised niches shift is paramount in ecology. Here, we examine the ecological realised niche of three species of wall lizards in six study areas: three areas where each species occurs alone; and three areas where they occur together in pairs. We compared the species’ realised niches and how they vary depending on species’ coexistence, by q

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Viana, Matheus Cavalcante, Andressa Duran, and Rodolpho Santos Telles Menezes. "Unraveling climatic niche evolution: Insights into the geographical distribution of the neotropical social wasp genus Synoeca (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Epiponini)." PLOS ONE 19, no. 6 (2024): e0306204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306204.

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Niche evolution refers to the process by which species undergo changes in ecological interactions, as well as their ability to disperse over time. Our study focuses on the widely distributed neotropical genus of social wasps, Synoeca (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Epiponini). We use ecological niche modeling to investigate the niche evolution of this insects, to explore how species have evolved within and across distinct environmental boundaries, as well as to explore the overlap, equivalence, and similarity between their niches. Our analysis of Predicted Niche Occupancy reveals that species occupy h

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Luna-Aranguré, Carlos, and Ella Vázquez-Domínguez. "Bears into the Niche-Space: Phylogeography and Phyloclimatic Model of the Family Ursidae." Diversity 16, no. 4 (2024): 223. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d16040223.

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Assessing niche evolution remains an open question and an actively developing area of study. The family Ursidae consists of eight extant species for which, despite being the most studied family of carnivores, little is known about the influence of climate on their evolutionary history and diversification. We evaluated their evolutionary patterns based on a combined phylogeography and niche modeling approach. We used complete mitogenomes, estimated divergence times, generated ecological niche models and applied a phyloclimatic model to determine the species evolutionary and diversification patt

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Ačanski, Jelena, Marija Miličić, Laura Likov, Dubravka Milić, Snežana Radenković, and Аnte Vujić. "Environmental niche divergence of species from Merodon ruficornis group (Diptera: Syrphidae)." Archives of Biological Sciences 69, no. 2 (2017): 247–59. https://doi.org/10.2298/ABS160303095A.

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In this paper we analyzed environmental differentiation of closely related species from the <em>Merodon ruficornis</em> group. By applying principal component analysis (PCA) and environmental niche modelling (ENM)-based techniques, we estimated the level of niche divergence of closely related species. Our results indicate that ecology has an important role in the diversification process in related species from the <em>M. ruficornis</em> group. Distribution patterns of all analyzed species are mainly affected by the limiting effects of the temperature of the coldest quarter

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Liu, Chunlong, Christian Wolter, Weiwei Xian, and Jonathan M. Jeschke. "Most invasive species largely conserve their climatic niche." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 38 (2020): 23643–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004289117.

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The ecological niche is a key concept for elucidating patterns of species distributions and developing strategies for conserving biodiversity. However, recent times are seeing a widespread debate whether species niches are conserved across space and time (niche conservatism hypothesis). Biological invasions represent a unique opportunity to test this hypothesis in a short time frame at the global scale. We synthesized empirical findings for 434 invasive species from 86 studies to assess whether invasive species conserve their climatic niche between native and introduced ranges. Although the ni

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Warren, Dan L., Richard E. Glor, and Michael Turelli. "ENVIRONMENTAL NICHE EQUIVALENCY VERSUS CONSERVATISM: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO NICHE EVOLUTION." Evolution 62, no. 11 (2008): 2868–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00482.x.

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Brame, Hannah-Maria R., and Alycia L. Stigall. "Controls on niche stability in geologic time: congruent responses to biotic and abiotic environmental changes among Cincinnatian (Late Ordovician) marine invertebrates." Paleobiology 40, no. 1 (2014): 70–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/13035.

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The set of environmental conditions under which a taxon can survive and maintain viable populations, known as the ecological niche, is a fundamental determinant of a taxon's distribution. Because of the central importance of ecological niches, they have been assumed to remain relatively stable during intervals of morphological stasis. However, the assumption of niche stability has rarely been tested directly with fossil data spanning multiple temporal intervals. Thus, the conditions under which this assumption is likely to be accurate are not well understood. In this study, we use ecological n

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Suárez-Mota, Mario, José Villaseñor, and Lauro López-Mata. "Ecological niche similarity between congeneric Mexican plant species." Plant Ecology and Evolution 148, no. (3) (2015): 318–28. https://doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2015.1147.

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<b>Background and aims</b> – Ecological niche conservatism describes the tendency of phylogenetically related species to maintain the characteristics of their ancestral fundamental niches. Our aim was to assess niche conservatism of species belonging to two plant genera of the Family Asteraceae endemic to Mexico: <i>Dyscritothamnus</i> includes two woody species restricted to the dry scrublands of central Mexico and <i>Loxothysanus</i> includes two herbaceous species distributed mostly in temperate environments from central Mexico southward. <b>Methods</b> – Using geographical distribution dat

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Yañez, Carlos, Gerardo Martín, Luis Osorio-Olvera, et al. "The Abundant Niche-centroid Hypothesis: Key Points About Unfilled Niches and the Potential Use of Supraspecfic Modeling Units." Biodiversity Informatics 15, no. 3 (2020): 92–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/bi.v15i2.13218.

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Correlative estimates of fundamental niches are gaining momentum as an alternative to predict species’ abundances, particularly via the abundant niche-centroid hypothesis (an expected inverse relationship between species’ abundance variation across its range and the distance to the geometric centroid of its multidimensional ecological niche). The main goal of this review is to recapitulate what has been done, where we are now, and where should we move towards in regards to this hypothesis. Despite evidence in support of the abundance-distance to niche centroid relationship, its usefulness has

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Evans, Alexandra, and Hans Jacquemyn. "Impact of mating system on range size and niche breadth in Epipactis (Orchidaceae)." Annals of Botany 126, no. 7 (2020): 1203–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaa142.

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Abstract Background and Aims The geographical distribution of plant species is linked fundamentally not only to environmental variables, but also to key traits that affect the dispersal, establishment and evolutionary potential of a species. One of the key plant traits that can be expected to affect standing genetic variation, speed of adaptation and the capacity to colonize and establish in new habitats, and therefore niche breadth and range size, is the plant mating system. However, the precise role of the mating system in shaping range size and niche breadth of plant species remains unclear

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Bloxham, Blox, Hyunseok Lee, and Jeff Gore. "Biodiversity is enhanced by sequential resource utilization and environmental fluctuations via emergent temporal niches." PLOS Computational Biology 20, no. 5 (2024): e1012049. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012049.

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How natural communities maintain their remarkable biodiversity and which species survive in complex communities are central questions in ecology. Resource competition models successfully explain many phenomena but typically predict only as many species as resources can coexist. Here, we demonstrate that sequential resource utilization, or diauxie, with periodic growth cycles can support many more species than resources. We explore how communities modify their own environments by sequentially depleting resources to form sequences of temporal niches, or intermediately depleted environments. Biod

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Wu, Hao, Sijin Dong, Yanyan Wang, Li Wang, and Benqiang Rao. "Niche Characteristics of Alternanthera philoxeroide-Invaded Plant Communities in Heterogeneous Habitats and Their Latitudinal Trends." Diversity 15, no. 5 (2023): 651. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d15050651.

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Plant invasions are closely related to environmental filtering and biointeractions; however, the variations in invasive plant niches along latitudinal gradients in heterogeneous habitats remain unclear. In this study, we conducted a two-year survey in China spanning 21° N–37° N to explore the niche characteristics of plant species within communities invaded by the amphibious alien weed Alternanthera philoxeroides in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats as well as their latitudinal trends. We found that A. philoxeroides had the greatest niche breadth in the studied communities. The species pai

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Feng, Li, Lipan Zhou, Tianyi Zhang, and Xumei Wang. "Niche Dynamics Below the Species Level: Evidence from Evaluating Niche Shifts within Quercus aquifolioides." Forests 14, no. 4 (2023): 690. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f14040690.

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The role of ecological niches in lineage diversification has been the subject of long-standing interest of ecologists and evolutionary biologists. Specific responses to climate change can arise below the species level, resulting in differentiated adaptation or movement patterns within a given species. Thus, the urgent need to model potential responses to ongoing climate changes among genetically distinct populations within a species is increasingly recognized. In this study, we utilize the information of intraspecific variation within Quercus aquifolioides as a priori, and then focus on the po

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Li, Xin, Na Zhu, Ming Ming, et al. "The Spatial Niche and Influencing Factors of Desert Rodents." Animals 14, no. 5 (2024): 734. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani14050734.

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Resource partitioning may allow species coexistence. Sand dunes in the typical steppe of Alxa Desert Inner Mongolia, China, consisting of desert, shrub, and grass habitats, provide an appropriate system for studies of spatial niche partitioning among small mammals. In this study, the spatial niche characteristics of four rodents, Orientallactaga sibirica, Meriones meridianus, Dipus sagitta, and Phodopus roborovskii, and their responses to environmental changes in the Alxa Desert were studied from 2017 to 2021. Using the capture-mark-recapture method, we tested if desert rodents with different

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Pahad, Govan, Claudine Montgelard, and Bettine Jansen van Vuuren. "Phylogeography and niche modelling: reciprocal enlightenment." Mammalia 84, no. 1 (2019): 10–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2018-0191.

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Abstract Phylogeography examines the spatial genetic structure of species. Environmental niche modelling (or ecological niche modelling; ENM) examines the environmental limits of a species’ ecological niche. These two fields have great potential to be used together. ENM can shed light on how phylogeographical patterns develop and help identify possible drivers of spatial structure that need to be further investigated. Specifically, ENM can be used to test for niche differentiation among clades, identify factors limiting individual clades and identify barriers and contact zones. It can also be

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Morales-Nieto, Carlos R., Federico Villarreal-Guerrero, Pedro Jurado-Guerra, et al. "Environmental Niche Dynamics of Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis) Ecotypes in Northern Mexico: Genetic Structure and Implications for Restoration Management." Plants 11, no. 5 (2022): 684. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants11050684.

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Understanding the genetic structure adopted by natural populations and its relation to environmental adaptation is critical for the success of restoration programs. We evaluated the genetic structure and temporal environmental niche dynamics of blue grama (Bouteloua gracilis) in 48 populations. The genetic evaluation was performed through amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) molecular markers. The maximum entropy method was used to model the past, present, and future environmental niches of the three clusters derived from the genetic analysis. The environmental niches of the three gen

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Soto-Centeno, J. Angel, and Nancy B. Simmons. "Environmentally driven phenotypic convergence and niche conservatism accompany speciation in hoary bats." Scientific Reports 12, no. 1 (2022): 21877. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13526965.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Abstract Species that are geographically widespread may exist across environmentally heterogeneous landscapes that could influence patterns of occupation and phylogeographic structure. Previous studies have suggested that geographic range size should be positively correlated with niche breadth, allowing widespread species to sustain viable populations over diverse environmental gradients. We examined the congruence of phenotypic and phylogenetic divergence with the environmental factors that help maintain species level diversity in the geograp

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Soto-Centeno, J. Angel, and Nancy B. Simmons. "Environmentally driven phenotypic convergence and niche conservatism accompany speciation in hoary bats." Scientific Reports 12, no. 1 (2022): 21877. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13526965.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Abstract Species that are geographically widespread may exist across environmentally heterogeneous landscapes that could influence patterns of occupation and phylogeographic structure. Previous studies have suggested that geographic range size should be positively correlated with niche breadth, allowing widespread species to sustain viable populations over diverse environmental gradients. We examined the congruence of phenotypic and phylogenetic divergence with the environmental factors that help maintain species level diversity in the geograp

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Soto-Centeno, J. Angel, and Nancy B. Simmons. "Environmentally driven phenotypic convergence and niche conservatism accompany speciation in hoary bats." Scientific Reports 12, no. 1 (2022): 21877. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13526965.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Abstract Species that are geographically widespread may exist across environmentally heterogeneous landscapes that could influence patterns of occupation and phylogeographic structure. Previous studies have suggested that geographic range size should be positively correlated with niche breadth, allowing widespread species to sustain viable populations over diverse environmental gradients. We examined the congruence of phenotypic and phylogenetic divergence with the environmental factors that help maintain species level diversity in the geograp

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Soto-Centeno, J. Angel, and Nancy B. Simmons. "Environmentally driven phenotypic convergence and niche conservatism accompany speciation in hoary bats." Scientific Reports 12, no. 1 (2022): 21877. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13526965.

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(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Abstract Species that are geographically widespread may exist across environmentally heterogeneous landscapes that could influence patterns of occupation and phylogeographic structure. Previous studies have suggested that geographic range size should be positively correlated with niche breadth, allowing widespread species to sustain viable populations over diverse environmental gradients. We examined the congruence of phenotypic and phylogenetic divergence with the environmental factors that help maintain species level diversity in the geograp

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Olthoff, Adriana E., Carolina Martínez-Ruiz, and Josu G. Alday. "Niche Characterization of Shrub Functional Groups along an Atlantic-Mediterranean Gradient." Forests 12, no. 8 (2021): 982. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/f12080982.

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The identification of the factors controlling the understory species distribution and abundance is essential to understand the ecology and dynamics of natural forests and their management response. We assess the relationships between environmental gradients and shrub functional groups distribution patterns and niche characteristics in a transitional area between the Eurosiberian and Mediterranean biogeographic regions in Northern Spain. Here, 772 plots from the 3rd Spanish National Forest Inventory were used. Shrub functional groups respond to the same complex environmental gradients as trees,

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Austin, M. P., A. O. Nicholls, and C. R. Margules. "Measurement of the Realized Qualitative Niche: Environmental Niches of Five Eucalyptus Species." Ecological Monographs 60, no. 2 (1990): 161–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1943043.

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Klapper, Isaac, Jack Dockery, and Hal Smith. "Niche Partitioning Along an Environmental Gradient." SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 74, no. 5 (2014): 1511–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/14095786x.

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Sahu, Nirmal Chandra, and Bibhudatta Nayak. "Niche diversification in environmental/ecological economics." Ecological Economics 11, no. 1 (1994): 9–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0921-8009(94)90045-0.

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Verdasca, Maria João, Luisa Carvalheiro, Jesus Aguirre Gutierrez, et al. "Contrasting patterns from two invasion fronts suggest a niche shift of an invasive predator of native bees." PeerJ 10 (May 10, 2022): e13269. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13269.

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Background The accuracy of predictions of invasive species ranges is dependent on niche similarity between invasive and native populations and on our ability to identify the niche characteristics. With this work we aimed to compare the niche dynamics of two genetically related invasive populations of Vespa velutina (an effective predator of honeybees and wild pollinators), in two distinct climatic regions, one in central Europe and another one in the north-western Iberian Peninsula, and hence to identify uninvaded regions susceptible to invasion. Methods Niche dynamics and shifts of V. velutin

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Antell, Gwen S., Isabel S. Fenton, Paul J. Valdes, and Erin E. Saupe. "Thermal niches of planktonic foraminifera are static throughout glacial–interglacial climate change." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 18 (2021): e2017105118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017105118.

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Abiotic niche lability reduces extinction risk by allowing species to adapt to changing environmental conditions in situ. In contrast, species with static niches must keep pace with the velocity of climate change as they track suitable habitat. The rate and frequency of niche lability have been studied on human timescales (months to decades) and geological timescales (millions of years), but lability on intermediate timescales (millennia) remains largely uninvestigated. Here, we quantified abiotic niche lability at 8-ka resolution across the last 700 ka of glacial–interglacial climate fluctuat

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Lavergne, Sébastien, Margaret E. K. Evans, Ian J. Burfield, Frederic Jiguet, and Wilfried Thuiller. "Are species' responses to global change predicted by past niche evolution?" Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 368, no. 1610 (2013): 20120091. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0091.

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Predicting how and when adaptive evolution might rescue species from global change, and integrating this process into tools of biodiversity forecasting, has now become an urgent task. Here, we explored whether recent population trends of species can be explained by their past rate of niche evolution, which can be inferred from increasingly available phylogenetic and niche data. We examined the assemblage of 409 European bird species for which estimates of demographic trends between 1970 and 2000 are available, along with a species-level phylogeny and data on climatic, habitat and trophic niche

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Cooper, Jacob C. "Ecological niche divergence or ecological niche partitioning in a widespread Neotropical bird lineage." PeerJ 12 (April 30, 2024): e17345. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17345.

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Ecological niche divergence is generally considered to be a facet of evolution that may accompany geographic isolation and diversification in allopatry, contributing to species’ evolutionary distinctiveness through time. The null expectation for any two diverging species in geographic isolation is that of niche conservatism, wherein populations do not rapidly shift to or adapt to novel environments. Here, I test ecological niche divergence for a widespread, pan-American lineage, the avian genus of martins (Progne). The genus Progne includes migrant and resident species, as well as geographical

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Liu, Dandan, Anmin Huang, Dewei Yang, Jianyi Lin, and Jiahui Liu. "Niche-Driven Socio-Environmental Linkages and Regional Sustainable Development." Sustainability 13, no. 3 (2021): 1331. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13031331.

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The changes in niche roles and functions caused by competition for survival resources have implications in various domains, with natural science and social science standing out. Currently, expanding the ecological niche concept and its practical interpretation in the fields of social ecology, geography and sustainable science is becoming a crucial challenge. This paper is based on niche theory to observe niche evolution and resulting socio-ecological effects of 1186 towns in 19 prefecture cities in Yangtze River delta. The results indicate that: Towns around the Taihu Lake displayed obvious sp

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Sîrbu, Ioan, Ana Maria Benedek, and Monica Sîrbu. "Variation partitioning in double-constrained multivariate analyses: linking communities, environment, space, functional traits, and ecological niches." Oecologia 197, no. 1 (2021): 43–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-05006-6.

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AbstractConstrained multivariate analysis is a common tool for linking ecological communities to environment. The follow-up is the development of the double-constrained correspondence analysis (dc-CA), integrating traits as species-related predictors. Further, methods have been proposed to integrate information on phylogenetic relationships and space variability. We expand this framework, proposing a dc-CA-based algorithm for decomposing variation in community structure and testing the simple and conditional effects of four sets of predictors: environment characteristics and space configuratio

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Namyatova, Anna A. "Climatic niche comparison between closely related trans-Palearctic species of the genus Orthocephalus (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae)." PeerJ 8 (December 15, 2020): e10517. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10517.

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Previously climatic niche modelling had been studied for only a few trans-Palearctic species. It is unclear whether and to what extent those niches are different, and which climatic variables influence such a wide distribution. Here, environmental niche modelling is performed based on the Worldclim variables using Maxent for eight species of the genus Orthocephalus (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Orthotylinae). This group belongs to one of the largest insect families and it is distributed across Palearctic. Orthocephalus bivittatus, O. brevis, O. saltator and O. vittipennis are distributed acr

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Caron, Fernanda S., Daniel Rivadeneira, Jorge Rabinovich, Marcio R. Pie, and Juliano Morimoto. "Range size positively correlates with temperature and precipitation niche breadths but not with dietary niche breadth in triatomine insects, vectors of Chagas disease." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 18, no. 8 (2024): e0012430. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012430.

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Ecological theory predicts that species that can utilise a greater diversity of resources and, therefore, have wider niche breadths should also occupy larger geographic areas (the ‘niche breadth-range size hypothesis’). Here, we tested this hypothesis for a blood-sucking group of insects of medical significance: the Triatominae (aka ‘kissing bugs’) (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Given that niches can be viewed from different perspectives, we tested this hypothesis based on both dietary and climatic niches. We assembled the most complete dataset of triatomine feeding patterns to date by reviewing 143

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CLYDESDALE, GREG. "THRESHOLDS, NICHES AND INERTIA: ENTREPRENEURIAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THE STEAMSHIP INDUSTRY." Journal of Enterprising Culture 20, no. 04 (2012): 379–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218495812500161.

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This paper seeks to increase understanding of the role the environment in the emergence of business opportunities, and how opportunities change as industries evolves. It explores the dynamics of entrepreneurial opportunity in the British steamship industry. It suggests niches are created when environmental thresholds are reached. Entrepreneurs who act before thresholds are reached fail. A complex relationship between inventors, innovators/entrepreneurs and higher order opportunities is revealed illustrating the difficulty of identifying 'higher order opportunities. Over time, variations in env

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