Niche position and niche breadth effects on population abundances: A case study of New World Warblers (Parulidae) [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionAbstractSpecies 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 maximum abundances in vertebrates at a broad geographical scale remains inconclusive.
Sandra Castaño‐Quintero +4 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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rTPI: An R Package for Calculating Thermal and Aridity Position Indices for Terrestrial Vertebrates [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionSpecies environmental niche limits provide useful information for generating estimates of species niche position. Recent work investigating species' responses to climate change has shown that models that included metrics of species‐specific thermal and ...
Matthew J. Watson, Jeremy T. Kerr
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Climatic niche properties shape treefrog diversity. [PDF]
PLoS ONEA suite of ecological hypotheses has been proposed to explain why more species are found in the tropics. Most of these hypotheses consider the geography of climate as a major determinant of richness, while ignoring the relationships between organisms and
Felipe A Toro-Cardona +6 more
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Testing for changes in rate of evolution and position of the climatic niche of clades [PDF]
Mammal Review, 2022 ABSTRACT There is solid recognition that phylogenetic effects must be acknowledged to appreciate climatic niche variability among species clades properly. Yet, most currently available methods either work at the intra‐specific level (hence they ignore phylogeny) or rely on the Brownian motion model of evolution to estimate phylogenetic effects on ...
Castiglione, Silvia +7 more
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The probabilistic niche model reveals the niche structure and role of body size in a complex food web. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 The niche model has been widely used to model the structure of complex food webs, and yet the ecological meaning of the single niche dimension has not been explored.
Ananthi Anandanadesan +6 more
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Is the relationship between body size and trophic niche position time-invariant in a predatory fish? First stable isotope evidence. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Characterizing relationships between individual body size and trophic niche position is essential for understanding how population and food-web dynamics are mediated by size-dependent trophic interactions.
Takefumi Nakazawa +14 more
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Reproductive niche of a population
Біологічні студії, 2013 Reproductive individuals and young progeny make a part of population that develops in special conditions and has special positions and functions in population, community and ecosystem.
V. H. Kyyak
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Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0 [PDF]
Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS), 2023 Aims: To develop a consistent ecological indicator value system for Europe for five of the main plant niche dimensions: soil moisture (M), soil nitrogen (N), soil reaction (R), light (L) and temperature (T).
Jürgen Dengler +33 more
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Plants, 2023 European Union forest policy calls for closer-to-nature forest management, but natural disturbances and forest succession are ecological phenomena that are difficult to characterize and integrate into sustainable forest management practices.
Raimundas Petrokas, Michael Manton
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