Local-scale models reveal ecological niche variability in amphibian and reptile communities from two contrasting biogeographic regions [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Ecological Niche Models (ENMs) are widely used to describe how environmental factors influence species distribution. Modelling at a local scale, compared to a large scale within a high environmental gradient, can improve our understanding of ecological ...
Alberto Muñoz +2 more
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Do selfing species have greater niche breadth? Support from ecological niche modeling
Evolution, 2019 We explore the relationship between plant mating system (selfing or outcrossing) and niche breadth to gain new insights into processes that drive species distributions. Using a comparative approach with highly selfing versus highly outcrossing sister species, we test the extent to which: (1) species pairs have evolved significant niche divergence and ...
Alannie-Grace, Grant, Susan, Kalisz
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Ecological niche divergence associated with species and populations differentiation in Erythrophleum (Fabaceae, Caesalpinioideae) [PDF]
Plant Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Background and aims – The isolation of populations inside forest refugia during past climate changes has widely been hypothesized as a major driver of tropical plant diversity.
Anaïs-Pasiphaé Gorel +3 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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Habitat suitability and ecological niche profile of major malaria vectors in Cameroon
Malaria Journal, 2009 Background Suitability of environmental conditions determines a species distribution in space and time. Understanding and modelling the ecological niche of mosquito disease vectors can, therefore, be a powerful predictor of the risk of exposure to the ...
Agbor Jean-Pierre +8 more
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Fit-for-purpose: species distribution model performance depends on evaluation criteria - Dutch Hoverflies as a case study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Understanding species distributions and the factors limiting them is an important topic in ecology and conservation, including in nature reserve selection and predicting climate change impacts.
Jesús Aguirre-Gutiérrez +6 more
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INTEGRATING COALESCENT AND ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELING IN COMPARATIVE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY [PDF]
Evolution, 2007 Understanding the factors that contribute to the formation of population genetic structure is a central goal of phylogeographic research, but achieving this goal can be complicated by the stochastic variance inherent to genetic processes. Statistical approaches to testing phylogeographic hypotheses accommodate this stochasticity by evaluating competing
Carstens, Bryan C., Richards, Corinne L.
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Simapse – simulation maps for ecological niche modelling
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2012 Summary1. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are known for their powerful predictive power in the analysis of both linear and nonlinear relationships. They have been successfully applied to several fields including ecological modelling and predictive species’ distributions.2.
Pedro Tarroso +2 more
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BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2019 Background Adaptive radiations are triggered by ecological opportunity – the access to novel niche domains with abundant available resources that facilitate the formation of new ecologically divergent species.
Joshua W. Lambert +2 more
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voluModel: Modelling species distributions in three‐dimensional space
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Ecological niche modelling (ENM), species distribution modelling and related spatial analytical methods were first developed in two‐dimensional (2‐D) terrestrial systems; many common ENM workflows organize and analyse geographically structured occurrence
Hannah L. Owens, Carsten Rahbek
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