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Coupling of palaeontological and neontological reef coral data improves forecasts of biodiversity responses under global climatic change [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Reef corals are currently undergoing climatically driven poleward range expansions, with some evidence for equatorial range retractions. Predicting their response to future climate scenarios is critical to their conservation, but ecological models are ...
Lewis A. Jones +5 more
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Application of a niche-based model for forest cover classification [PDF]
Forest@ - Rivista di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale, 2012 In recent years, a surge of interest in biodiversity conservation have led to the development of new approaches to facilitate ecologically-based conservation policies and management plans. In particular, image classification and predictive distribution modeling applied to forest habitats, constitute a crucial issue as forests constitute the most ...
Amici, V, Marcantonio, M, Geri, F
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Niche theory‐based modeling of assembly processes of viral communities in bats
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 AbstractUnderstanding the assembly processes of symbiont communities, including viromes and microbiomes, is important for improving predictions on symbionts’ biogeography and disease ecology. Here, we use phylogenetic, functional, and geographic filters to predict the similarity between symbiont communities, using as a test case the assembly process in
Fabiola Nieto‐Rabiela +3 more
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Climatic niche conservatism and Pleistocene range dynamics in two Mediterranean Cistus species [PDF]
Plant Ecology and EvolutionBackground and aims – Understanding how closely related species diverge is a fundamental issue in evolutionary biogeography, particularly in regions formed by repeated climatic oscillations. We examined the drivers of geographic separation between Cistus
Nihal Kenar
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Progressively approaching the distribution of Passiflora ischnoclada (Passifloraceae) from a single occurrence record [PDF]
Check List, 2015 Until recently, Passiflora ischnoclada was only known from a single occurrence record. In this paper we describe how different ecological niche modelling techniques were successively used to generate better potential distribution models for the species ...
Renato Giovanni, Luís Bernacci
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Predicting niche overlap with model‐based ordination
EcographyThe ecological niche is a fundamental concept in ecology that can be used in order better understand species relationships. The overlap in species niches provides a measure of the likelihood for species to co‐occur. Most approaches that quantify niche overlap have been based on distance and similarity indices, for pairwise combinations of species.
Bert van der Veen +3 more
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An introduction to niche construction theory [PDF]
, 2016 Niche construction refers to the modification of selective environments by organisms. Theoretical and empirical studies of niche construction are increasing in importance as foci in evolutionary ecology.
Matthews, Blake +12 more
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International Journal of Health Geographics, 2018 Background Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus, reported in many countries of Africa and Europe, with an increasing spatial distribution and host range.
Yanchao Cheng +6 more
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Environmental niche divergence of species from Merodon ruficornis group (Diptera: Syrphidae) [PDF]
Archives of Biological Sciences, 2017 In this paper we analyzed environmental differentiation of closely related species from the Merodon ruficornis group. By applying principal component analysis (PCA) and environmental niche modelling (ENM)-based techniques, we estimated the level
Ačanski Jelena +5 more
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The ecological adaptation of the unparalleled plastome character evolution in slipper orchids
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Plastomes may have undergone adaptive evolution in the process of plant adaptation to diverse environments, whereby species may differ in plastome characters.
Chao Hu +15 more
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