Variable effects of wolves on niche breadth and density of intraguild competitors [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 The parallel niche release hypothesis (PNR) indicates that reduced competition with dominant competitors results in greater density and niche breadth of subordinate competitors and which may support an adaptive advantage.
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Populations of western North American monkeyflowers accrue niche breadth primarily via genotypic divergence in environmental optima [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Niche breadth, the range of environments that individuals, populations, and species can tolerate, is a fundamental ecological and evolutionary property, yet few studies have examined how niche breadth is partitioned across biological scales.
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Dispersal ability and niche breadth influence interspecific variation in spider abundance and occupancy [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 The relationship between species local abundance and their regional distribution (occupancy) is one of the most extensively recognized and investigated patterns in ecology. While exceptions exist, the generally held model is that locally abundant species
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Trait‐Based Life History Strategies Shape Bacterial Niche Breadth [PDF]
Advanced ScienceThe ecological niche represents a fundamental property of organisms, reflecting their diversity of utilized resources or environmental tolerances across space and time. Despite a wealth of studies revealing that not all bacteria being everywhere, the key
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Range size positively correlates with temperature and precipitation niche breadths but not with dietary niche breadth in triatomine insects, vectors of Chagas disease. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical DiseasesEcological theory predicts that species that can utilise a greater diversity of resources and, therefore, have wider niche breadths should also occupy larger geographic areas (the 'niche breadth-range size hypothesis').
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Niche position and niche breadth effects on population abundances: A case study of New World Warblers (Parulidae) [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionSpecies abundance patterns are influenced by a myriad of factors, including habitat availability and ecological niche characteristics. However, the evidence concerning the specific impact factors such as niche position and niche breadth on mean and ...
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Experimental evolution for niche breadth in bacteriophage T4 highlights the importance of structural genes [PDF]
MicrobiologyOpen, 2020 Ecologists have long studied the evolution of niche breadth, including how variability in environments can drive the evolution of specialism and generalism.
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Trophic Niche Breadth of Falconidae Species Predicts Biomic Specialisation but Not Range Size [PDF]
Biology, 2022 Trophic niche breadth plays a key role in biogeographic distribution patterns. Theory posits that generalist strategies are favoured in a more heterogeneous set of environments across a spatio-temporal gradient of resources predictability, conferring ...
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Pulsed resource availability changes dietary niche breadth and partitioning between generalist rodent consumers [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Identifying the mechanisms that structure niche breadth and overlap between species is important for determining how species interact and assessing their functional role in an ecosystem.
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Agricultural constraints on microbial resource use and niche breadth in drainage ditches [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Background Microorganisms govern important ecosystems processes, in particular the degradation of organic matter (OM). However, microorganisms are rarely considered in efforts to monitor ecosystem health and functioning.
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