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PLoS ONE, 2021 The genus Bursera, includes ~100 shrub and trees species in tropical dry forests with its center of diversification and endemism in Mexico. Morphologically intermediate individuals have commonly been observed in Mexican Bursera in areas where closely ...
Eduardo Quintero Melecio +3 more
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Divergence in the ecological niches of the white wagtail (Motacilla alba Linnaeus, 1758) complex using the ecological niche modeling approach [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2017 The mtDNA data presently being used for estimating biodiversity is not sufficient for evaluating the Motacilla alba complex species status. Because there is a lack of congruence between morphological and mtDNA data, there are debates about the best ...
Maliheh Pirayesh shirazi nejad +2 more
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Frontiers 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
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 One of the most applied tools for documenting cultural variability and for tracing cultural trajectories within the environmental context is eco-cultural niche modeling and its associated methodology.
Alin Mihu-Pintilie +2 more
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Advances and Limitations of Disease Biogeography Using Ecological Niche Modeling
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Mapping disease transmission risk is crucial in public and animal health for evidence based decision-making. Ecology and epidemiology are highly related disciplines that may contribute to improvements in mapping disease, which can be used to answer ...
Luis E Escobar +2 more
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A checklist for maximizing reproducibility of ecological niche models [PDF]
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019 AbstractReporting specific modelling methods and metadata is essential to the reproducibility of ecological studies, yet guidelines rarely exist regarding what information should be noted. Here, we address this issue for ecological niche modelling or species distribution modelling, a rapidly developing toolset in ecology used across many aspects of ...
Xiao Feng +5 more
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Novel Methods in Disease Biogeography: A Case Study with Heterosporosis
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2017 Disease biogeography is currently a promising field to complement epidemiology, and ecological niche modeling theory and methods are a key component. Therefore, applying the concepts and tools from ecological niche modeling to disease biogeography and ...
Luis E. Escobar +6 more
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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 niche divergence or ecological niche partitioning in a widespread Neotropical bird lineage [PDF]
PeerJEcological 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.
Jacob C. Cooper
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Importance of biotic predictors in estimation of potential invasive areas: the example of the tortoise beetle Eurypedus nigrosignatus, in Hispaniola [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Climatic variables have been the main predictors employed in ecological niche modeling and species distribution modeling, although biotic interactions are known to affect species’ spatial distributions via mechanisms such as predation, competition, and ...
Marianna V.P. Simões +1 more
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