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Niche construction in evolutionary theory: the construction of an academic niche? [PDF]
Journal of Genetics, 2017 Abstract In recent years, fairly far-reaching claims have been repeatedly made about how niche construction, the modification by organisms of their environment, and that of other organisms, represents a vastly neglected phenomenon in ecological and evolutionary thought.
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Niche construction in the light of niche theory
Ecology Letters, 2010Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 82–90AbstractEcological niche construction, the process whereby an organism improves its environment to enhance its growth and persistence, is an important missing element of niche theory. Niche theory has mainly focused on niche‐deteriorating processes, such as resource consumption, predation and competition, which have ...
Grigoris, Kylafis, Michel, Loreau
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Habitat suitability modelling and niche theory
Journal of Applied Ecology, 2008 The concept of the ecological niche relates a set of environmental variables to the fitness of species, while habitat suitability models (HSMs) relate environmental variables to the likelihood of occurrence of the species.
Alexandre H Hirzel
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Neutral theory and the species abundance distribution: recent developments and prospects for unifying niche and neutral perspectives [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2014 Published in 2001, The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography (UNTB) emphasizes the importance of stochastic processes in ecological community structure, and has challenged the traditional niche‐based view of ecology.
Robert J. Whittaker, Thomas J. Matthews
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Bioeconomics and the theory of niches
Futures, 1985Abstract This interdisciplinary study by an economist and two biologists applies the theory of niches to economics and biology. A historical account of the connection between biology and economics is given, followed by a description of the biological theory of niches, which is linked up further with an analysis of competition in economic theory.
John Mark, G.M. Chapman, T. Gibson
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On the theory of niche overlap
Theoretical Population Biology, 1974Abstract The factors which are likely to limit niche overlap are studied for a class of idealized biological communities in which several species compete on a onedimensional continuum of resources, e.g., food size. Although the shape of the resource spectrum restricts the composition of possible equilibrium communities, and although this restriction ...
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Environmental fluctuations and the theory of the ecological niche
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 1978May and MacArthur proposed that a limit to the permissible degree of similarity between competing species might result from the resilience of any of the species to environmental fluctuations dropping dramatically as the differences between the competitors were reduced. For certain idealized models of species competing for a single type of resource this
Nisbet, R.M. +2 more
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2021
Niche construction theory is placed in its recent historical context, emerging from work challenging sociobiology in the early 1980s. While this initial work was broadly adaptationist, it rapidly took on the dialectical structures advocated by Lewontin and placed organisms as agents within an expanded view of selection.
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Niche construction theory is placed in its recent historical context, emerging from work challenging sociobiology in the early 1980s. While this initial work was broadly adaptationist, it rapidly took on the dialectical structures advocated by Lewontin and placed organisms as agents within an expanded view of selection.
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Niche theory for positive plant–soil feedbacks
Ecology, 2023AbstractInteractions between plants and the soil are an important ecological process in terrestrial ecosystems as they affect plant community structure: when and where we find different plant species. Those interactions are typically thought of as one‐directional: local soil conditions filter through dispersing species to produce a community of locally
Athmanathan Senthilnathan +1 more
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System theory of the ecological niche
Deep Sea Research Part B. Oceanographic Literature Review, 1981The ecological niche is a confused concept, not easily distinguished from related ideas like habitat or environment. Attempts at formal niche theory have been only partially successful because they have not recognized that the niche is a systems concept and needs to be expressed in the formalism of mathematical general system theory. This is done here.
Bernard C. Patten, Gregor T. Auble
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