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Learning the ecological niche [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2006
A cornerstone of ecological theory is the ecological niche. Yet little is known about how individuals come to adopt it: whether it is innate or learned. Here, we report a cross-fostering experiment in the wild where we transferred eggs of blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus , to nests of great tits, Parus ...
Tore, Slagsvold, Karen L, Wiebe
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Ecological niche differentiation in Chiroxiphia and Antilophia manakins (Aves: Pipridae).

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Species distribution models are useful for identifying the ecological characteristics that may limit a species' geographic range and for inferring patterns of speciation.
Mariana Villegas   +3 more
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Niche-separation and conservation biogeography of Madagascar’s fork-marked lemurs (Cheirogaleidae: Phaner): Evidence of a new cryptic species?

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2021
Ecological niche modeling can provide insights into a species’ demography, ecology and biogeography, and the environmental factors that determine them.
Daniel Hending
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Local niches explain coexistence in environmentally-distinct contact zones between Western Mediterranean vipers

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Species’ ecological niches are frequently analysed to gain insights into how anthropogenic changes affect biodiversity. Coping with these changes often involves shifts in niche expression, which can disrupt local biotic interactions.
Inês Freitas   +7 more
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Integrating phylogeographic and ecological niche approaches to delimitating cryptic lineages in the blue–green damselfish (Chromis viridis) [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 2019
Species delimitation is challenging in sibling species/cryptic lineages because of the absence of clear diagnostic traits. However, integration of different approaches such as phylogeography and ecological niche comparison offers one potential approach ...
Shang Yin Vanson Liu   +4 more
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Ecological niche of plant pathogens [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Forest Research, 2011
Disease ecology is a new approach to the understanding of the spread and dynamics of pathogens in natural and man-made environments. Defining and describing the ecological niche of the pathogens is one of the major tasks for ecological theory, as well as
Ecaterina Fodor
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Niche Divergence at Intraspecific Level in the Hyrcanian Wood Frog, Rana pseudodalmatina: A Phylogenetic, Climatic, and Environmental Survey

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The role of ecological niche divergence in lineage speciation has recently stimulated the interest of evolutionary biologists and ecologists. Phylogenetic analysis has revealed that the Hyrcanian wood frog, Rana pseudodalmatina, has diverged into two ...
Somaye Vaissi, Sahar Rezaei
doaj   +1 more source

Laboratory measures of boldness correlate with ecological niche in threespine stickleback

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2022
Research on among individual variation in behavior has increased rapidly in recent years. It is intuitively appealing that variation in the behavior of individuals has ecological consequences, for example, on trophic niche.
Benedikt Kári Theódórsson   +1 more
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Acknowledging uncertainty in evolutionary reconstructions of ecological niches

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2020
Reconstructing ecological niche evolution can provide insight into the biogeography and diversification of evolving lineages. However, comparative phylogenetic methods may infer the history of ecological niche evolution inaccurately because (a) species ...
Hannah L. Owens   +10 more
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A network approach reveals surprises about the history of the niche

open access: yesEcosphere, 2016
The ecological niche is a prominent theoretical concept in many ecological fields, central to ecological understanding of species interactions and community structure.
Michael T. Pedruski   +2 more
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