A social niche breadth score reveals niche range strategies of generalists and specialists [PDF]
Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 Abstract Generalists can survive in many environments, whereas specialists are restricted to a single environment. Although a classical concept in ecology, niche breadth has remained challenging to quantify for microorganisms because it depends on an objective definition of the environment.
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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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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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The global determinants of climate niche breadth in birds [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsUnderstanding why certain species occupy wider climate niches than others is a fundamental pursuit in ecology with important implications for conservation and management. However, existing synthesis on this topic has focused on the consequences rather than the causes of climate niche expansion, leading to significant gaps in our understanding of the ...
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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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Decreased thermal niche breadth as a trade-off of antibiotic resistance [PDF]
The ISME Journal, 2022 Abstract Evolutionary theory predicts that adaptations, including antibiotic resistance, should come with associated fitness costs; yet, many resistance mutations seemingly contradict this prediction by inducing no growth rate deficit.
Cristina M Herren, Michael Baym
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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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Anthropogenic fire patterns affect niche breadth and niche overlap in sympatric songbird species
Science of The Total Environment, 2022 The severity of wildfires increases globally, and return intervals decrease. Fires can benefit biodiversity, as post-burn early successional stages provide diverse habitats and niches for many species. How fire disturbance affects niche use and niche overlap of species is poorly understood so far. We studied the effect of anthropogenic fire on breeding
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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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