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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, Congtian Lin, Liqiang Ji, Zhigang Jiang   +3 more
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Ecological Niche Modelling of Bank Voles in Western Europe [PDF]

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2013
The bank vole (Myodes glareolus) is the natural host of Puumala virus (PUUV) in vast areas of Europe. PUUV is one of the hantaviruses which are transmitted to humans by infected rodents. PUUV causes a general mild form of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) called nephropathia epidemica (NE).
Haredasht, Sara Amirpour, Barrios, Miguel, Farifteh, Jamshid, Maes, Piet, Clement, Jan, Verstraeten, Willem, Tersago, Katrien, Ranst, Marc Van, Coppin, Pol, Berckmans, Daniel, Aerts, Jean-Marie   +10 more
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Global analysis of ecological niche conservation and niche shift in exotic populations of monkeyflowers (Mimulus guttatus, M. luteus) and their hybrid (M. x robertsii) [PDF]

, 2020
Background Hybridisation associated with biological invasions may generate new phenotypic combinations, allowing hybrids to occupy new ecological niches. To date, few studies have assessed niche shifts associated with hybridisation in recently introduced
Olivares, Angel P, Smith, William, Vallejo-Marín, Mario, Da Re, Daniele, Vallejo‐Marín, Mario,, Olivares, Angel P.   +5 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, Ivica Tikvić, Stjepan Mikac, Igor Stankić, Danijela Balta   +4 more
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Ecological niche modelling

, 2019
Abstract Impact assessments increasingly rely on models to project the potential impacts of climate change on species distributions. Ecological niche models have become established as an efficient and widely used method for interpolating (and sometimes extrapolating) species’ distributions.
Zurell, Damaris, Engler, Jan O.
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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 ...
Colegrave, Nick, Colegrave Nick, Brockhurst, Michael A.; id_orcid, Hodgson, David J., Buckling Angus, Michael A Brockhurst, David J Hodgson, Nick Colegrave, Angus Buckling, Brockhurst Michael A., Brockhurst, Michael A., Buckling, Angus, Hodgson David J.   +12 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, Rafael Dias Loyola   +1 more
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Accessible areas in ecological niche comparisons of invasive species: Recognized but still overlooked

Scientific Reports, 2017
Understanding biological invasions is crucial for their control and prevention. Specially, establishing whether invasive species operate within the constraint of conservative ecological niches, or if niche shifts occur at all commonly as part of the ...
Huijie Qiao, Luis E. Escobar, A. Townsend Peterson   +2 more
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Improving Models of Species Ecological Niches: A Remote Sensing Overview

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Effective conservation capable of mitigating global biodiversity declines require thorough knowledge on species distributions and their drivers. A species ecological niche determines its geographic distribution, and species distribution models (SDMs) can
Pedro J. Leitão, Pedro J. Leitão, Maria J. Santos   +2 more
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Ecological niche modeling of the genus Papio

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2018
AbstractObjectiveEcological niche modeling (ENM) has been used to assess how abiotic variables influence species distributions and diversity. Baboons are broadly distributed throughout Africa, yet the degree of climatic specialization is largely unexplored for individual taxa. Also, the influence of climate on baboon phylogenetic divergence is unknown.
Amanda J. Fuchs, Christopher C. Gilbert, Jason M. Kamilar   +2 more
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