“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.
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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 +12 more
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gerardommc/Niche-centroids: Final
, 2022 Final version of the analyses of the paper: Gerardo Martín, Carlos Yáñez-Arenas & Xavier Chiappa-Carrara (2022). Discrepancies between point process models and environmental envelopes identify the niche centroid – geography configuration.
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PLoS ONE, 2020 The Amazonian and Atlantic Forest share several organisms that are currently isolated but were continuously distributed during the Quaternary period. As both biomes are under different climatic regimes, paleoclimatic events may have modulated species ...
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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 +5 more
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Ecological model to predict potential habitats of Oncomelania hupensis, the intermediate host of Schistosoma japonicum in the mountainous regions, China [PDF]
, 2015 Schistosomiasis japonica is a parasitic disease that remains endemic in seven provinces in the People's Republic of China (P.R. China). One of the most important measures in the process of schistosomiasis elimination in P.R.
Zhou, Xiao-Nong +7 more
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Change of niche in guanaco (Lama guanicoe): the effects of climate change on habitat suitability and lineage conservatism in Chile [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background The main goal of this contribution was to define the ecological niche of the guanaco (Lama guanicoe), to describe potential distributional changes, and to assess the relative importance of niche conservatism and divergence processes between ...
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 To clarify the effect of niche conservatism on evolutionary history, we focused on freshwater snails, which have different ecological and phylogenetic properties from previously tested taxa.
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From social learning to culture : mathematical and computational models of cultural evolution [PDF]
, 2013 Humans are unique in the extent and complexity of their cultures. As a species, we generate extensive knowledge and innumerable norms, attitudes, traditions, skills, beliefs and technologies that we share with those around us through teaching, imitation ...
Fogarty, Laurel
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Journal of Threatened TaxaUnderstanding species’ ecological niches and distribution patterns is crucial for biodiversity conservation and management, particularly in ecologically sensitive regions.
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