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Modelling the ecological niche from functional traits [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2010 The niche concept is central to ecology but is often depicted descriptively through observing associations between organisms and habitats. Here, we argue for the importance of mechanistically modelling niches based on functional traits of organisms and explore the possibilities for achieving this through the integration of three theoretical frameworks:
Michael, Kearney +3 more
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Ecological model to predict potential habitats of Oncomelania hupensis, the intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum in the mountainous regions, China [PDF]
, 2015 Schistosomiasis japonica is a parasitic disease that remains endemic in seven provinces in the People's Republic of China (P.R. China). One of the most important measures in the process of schistosomiasis elimination in P.R.
Zhou, Xiao-Nong +7 more
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Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2017 Ecological niche modeling has contributed to the investigation of the geographical distribution and conservation of rare or little recorded species.
A. J. C. Magalhães-Júnior +3 more
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The probabilistic niche model reveals the niche structure and role of body size in a complex food web. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 The niche model has been widely used to model the structure of complex food webs, and yet the ecological meaning of the single niche dimension has not been explored.
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Avian Research, 2021 Background Understanding how species diversify is a long-standing question in biology. The allopatric speciation model is a classic hypothesis to explain the speciation process. This model supposes that there is no gene flow during the divergence process
Pengcheng Wang +8 more
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Niche Occupation Limits Adaptive Radiation in Experimental Microcosms [PDF]
, 2007 Adaptive radiations have played a key role in the evolution of biological diversity. The breadth of adaptive radiation in an invading lineage is likely to be influenced by the availability of ecological niches, which will be determined to some extent by ...
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mMWeb--an online platform for employing multiple ecological niche modeling algorithms. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND: Predicting the ecological niche and potential habitat distribution of a given organism is one of the central domains of ecological and biogeographical research. A wide variety of modeling techniques have been developed for this purpose.
Huijie Qiao +3 more
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The Influence of Changing Climate Extremes on the Ecological Niche of Pedunculate Oak in Croatia
South-East European Forestry, 2016 Background and Purpose: Forest trees are adapted to the specific climatic conditions and other ecological factors that dominate within their distribution range. However, the climate is in constant flux.
Damir Ugarković +4 more
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Labeling Ecological Niche Models
Natureza & Conservação, 2012 The ongoing biodiversity crisis is pushing ecologists and conservation biologists to develop models to foretell the effects of human-induced transformation of natural resources on the distribution of species, although ecology and biogeography still lacks a paradigmatic body of theory to fully understand the drivers of biodiversity patterns. Two decades
Thiago Fernando Rangel +1 more
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Metabolic flexibility as a major predictor of spatial distribution in microbial communities [PDF]
, 2014 A better understand the ecology of microbes and their role in the global ecosystem could be achieved if traditional ecological theories can be applied to microbes. In ecology organisms are defined as specialists or generalists according to the breadth of
Carbonero Franck +11 more
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