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“Does a Respiratory Virus Have an Ecological Niche, and If So, Can It Be Mapped?” Yes and Yes
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023 Although the utility of Ecological Niche Models (ENM) and Species Distribution Models (SDM) has been demonstrated in many ecological applications, their suitability for modelling epidemics or pandemics, such as SARS-Cov-2, has been questioned.
Christopher R. Stephens +2 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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Predicting the current and future potential distributions of lymphatic filariasis in Africa using maximum entropy ecological niche modelling. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Modelling the spatial distributions of human parasite species is crucial to understanding the environmental determinants of infection as well as for guiding the planning of control programmes.
Hannah Slater, Edwin Michael
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Nature Communications, 2020 Ecological niche breadth may help explain spatial distribution patterns in animals. In this study on European bats, Alberdi et al. combine DNA metabarcoding and species distribution modelling to show that dietary niche breadth is related to hunting ...
Antton Alberdi +14 more
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Advances and links between ecological niche models and phylogeography
Frontiers of Biogeography, 2016 Phylogeography and ecological niche modelling are two key approaches advancing biogeography. A special issue of Folia Zoologica (64: 2015) considers these advances in eight articles, including two reviews—on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and ...
David Sánchez-Fernández +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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Viruses, 2023 Previous human cases or epidemics have suggested that Monkeypox virus (MPXV) can be transmitted through contact with animals of African rainforests.
Manon Curaudeau +5 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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Range bagging: a new method for ecological niche modelling from presence-only data [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 2015 John M Drake
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Phytopathologia Mediterranea, 2021 Phytophthora cinnamomi is among the most destructive plant pathogens that affect many host plants in different ecosystems. Economically important hosts of this pathogen include avocado (Persea americana), and this oomycete may cause large-scale ...
Joaquín Guillermo Ramírez-Gil +2 more
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