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Ecological Niche Modelling Approaches: Challenges and Applications in Vector-Borne Diseases [PDF]

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) pose a major threat to human and animal health, with more than 80% of the global population being at risk of acquiring at least one major VBD.
Pablo Fernando Cuervo, Patricio Artigas, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, María Dolores Bargues, Santiago Mas-Coma   +4 more
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Mahalanobis distances for ecological niche modelling and outlier detection: implications of sample size, error, and bias for selecting and parameterising a multivariate location and scatter method [PDF]

PeerJ, 2021
The Mahalanobis distance is a statistical technique that has been used in statistics and data science for data classification and outlier detection, and in ecology to quantify species-environment relationships in habitat and ecological niche models ...
Thomas R. Etherington
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Ecological niche modelling does not support climatically-driven dinosaur diversity decline before the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2019
The fossil record shows a decline in dinosaur diversity preceding their mass extinction. Here, the authors apply ecological niche modelling to show that suitable dinosaur habitat was declining in areas with present-day rock-outcrop, but not across North ...
Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza, Philip D. Mannion, Daniel J. Lunt, Alex Farnsworth, Lewis A. Jones, Sarah-Jane Kelland, Peter A. Allison   +6 more
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Spatio-temporal ecological niche modelling of multigenerational insect migrations. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2019
Modelling ecological niches of migratory animals requires incorporating a temporal dimension, in addition to space. Here, we introduce an approach to model multigenerational migratory insects using time-partitioned environmental variables (by months and years) and time- and behaviour-partitioned records (breeding records to model ...
Menchetti M, Guéguen M, Talavera G.
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Mahalanobis distances and ecological niche modelling: correcting a chi-squared probability error [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
The Mahalanobis distance is a statistical technique that can be used to measure how distant a point is from the centre of a multivariate normal distribution.
Thomas R. Etherington
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Contrasting genetic diversity and ecological niche modelling of the montane grass mouse Akodon montensis in the south of the Atlantic Forest [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science
Akodon montensis is widely distributed throughout the Atlantic Forest (AF) hotspot biodiversity, encompassing Brazil and reaching its southern limit in eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.
Carolina Alicia Labaroni, Andrea P Tarquino-Carbonell, Noelia Soledad Vera, Rosio Gabriela Schneider, Leandro Maciel Buschiazzo, Romina Vanessa De Cena, Gabriela García, Marina Beatriz Chiappero, Dardo Andrea Marti, Cecilia Lanzone   +9 more
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Large-scale environmental DNA survey reveals niche axes of a regional coastal fish community [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The concept of the ecological niche, defined as the basic habitat requirements for a species, is central to understanding species geographic distributions and predicting their responses to environmental change.
Yutaka Osada, Masaki Miya, Hitoshi Araki, Hideyuki Doi, Akihide Kasai, Reiji Masuda, Toshifumi Minamoto, Satoquo Seino, Teruhiko Takahara, Satoshi Yamamoto, Hiroki Yamanaka, Mitsuhiro Aizu-Hirano, Keiichi Fukaya, Takehiko Fukuchi, Ryo O. Gotoh, Masakazu Hori, Midori Iida, Tomohito Imaizumi, Tadashi Kajita, Takashi Kanbe, Tanaka Kenta, Yumi Kobayashi, Tomohiko Matsuura, Hiroki Mizumoto, Hiroyuki Motomura, Hiroaki Murakami, Kenji Nohara, Shin-ichiro Oka, Tetsuya Sado, Hiroshi Senou, Koichi Shibukawa, Tomoki Sunobe, Hiroshi Takahashi, Koji Takayama, Katsuhiko Tanaka, Hisashi Yamakawa, Satoru Yokoyama, Seokjin Yoon, Michio Kondoh   +38 more
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Differentiated historical demography and ecological niche forming present distribution and genetic structure in coexisting two salamanders (Amphibia, Urodela, Hynobiidae) in a small island, Japan [PDF]

PeerJ, 2022
Background The climatic oscillations in the Quaternary period considerably shaped the distribution and population genetic structure of organisms. Studies on the historical dynamics of distribution and demography not only reflect the current geographic ...
Keita Niwa, Dung Van Tran, Kanto Nishikawa   +2 more
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Putative source and niche shift pattern of a new alien ant species (Odontomachus troglodytes) in Taiwan [PDF]

PeerJ, 2023
Alien species may pose substantial impacts on biodiversity around the globe through international trade and travel. A niche shift hypothesis was proposed to explain the adaptive change of alien or invasive species in new habitats.
Tzong-Han Lin, Kai-Wei Chan, Feng-Chuan Hsu, Chung-Chi Lin, Hui-Yun Tseng   +4 more
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Distribution Pattern and Climate Preferences of the Representatives of the Cosmopolitan Genus Sirthenea Spinola, 1840 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Peiratinae). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
The main goal of this study was to predict, through the use of GIS tool as ecological niche modelling, potentially suitable ecological niche and defining the conditions of such niche for the representatives of the cosmopolitan genus Sirthenea.
Dominik Chłond, Agnieszka Bugaj-Nawrocka   +1 more
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