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Habitat niche breadth predicts invasiveness in solitary ascidians [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2017 AbstractA major focus of invasion biology is understanding the traits associated with introduction success. Most studies assess these traits in the invaded region, while only few compare nonindigenous species to the pool of potential invaders in their native region.
Itai Granot +2 more
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Spatial Patterns of Variation in Climatic Niche Breadths in Agamid Lizards [PDF]
AnimalsClimatic niche breadth is defined as the range of climatic conditions (e.g., temperature and precipitation) under which a species occurs. However, the relationship between niche breadth variation and climatic factors remains poorly studied, and existing ...
Zhi-Wen Wang +7 more
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On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2022 Lesley Lancaster
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Niche breadth and divergence in sympatric cryptic coral species (Pocillopora spp.) across habitats within reefs and among algal symbionts [PDF]
Evolutionary ApplicationsWhile the presence of morphologically cryptic species is increasingly recognized, we still lack a useful understanding of what causes and maintains co‐occurring cryptic species and its consequences for the ecology, evolution, and conservation of ...
Scott C. Burgess +2 more
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Isotopic niches support the resource breadth hypothesis [PDF]
Journal of Animal Ecology, 2017 SummaryBecause a broad spectrum of resource use allows species to persist in a wide range of habitat types, and thus permits them to occupy large geographical areas, and because broadly distributed species have access to more diverse resource bases, the resource breadth hypothesis posits that the diversity of resources used by organisms should be ...
Rader, Jonathan A. +5 more
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Feeding ecology of endemic frogs of the Atlantic Forest in southern Brazil [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2022 Our objective was to describe and compare the diet of endemic anurans of the Atlantic Forest, as well as to evaluate the influence of biotic factors on the trophic ecology of the species.
CAMILA FERNANDA MOSER +4 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Coleoptera are key elements of terrestrial trophic interactions and generate significant economic and ecological benefits, but their representatives also represent severe pest species.
Marianna V. P. Simões +7 more
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Impacts of Niche Breadth and Dispersal Ability on Macroevolutionary Patterns [PDF]
The American Naturalist, 2016 We describe a spatially explicit simulation experiment designed to assess relative impacts of macroecological traits on patterns of biological diversification under changing environmental conditions. Using a simulation framework, we assessed impacts of species' niche breadth (i.e., the range of their abiotic tolerances) and dispersal ability on ...
Qiao, Huijie +4 more
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Niche breadth of Amazonian trees increases with niche optimum across broad edaphic gradients [PDF]
Ecology, 2023 AbstractUnderstanding how biotic interactions and environmental filtering mediated by soil properties shape plant community assembly is a major challenge in ecology, especially when studying complex and hyperdiverse ecosystems like tropical forests. To shed light on the influence of both factors, we examined how the edaphic optimum of species (their ...
Vleminckx, Jason +17 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Ecological studies investigating niche breadth and overlap often have limited spatial and temporal scale, preventing generalizations across varying environments and communities.
Jenilee Gobin +4 more
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