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The relationship between niche breadth and geographic range size in African Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophidae, Chiroptera) [PDF]

, 2011
According to Brown's hypothesis, generalists have high niche breadth and can tolerate a wide variety of environmental conditions resulting in large geographic range sizes. Conversely, specialists have low niche breadth and small range sizes.
Aronson, Jonathan
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‘Sold Out to the Enemy’: Emerging Symbolic Boundaries in Kurdish Politics and the Strategic Uses of Labeling Treason

European Journal of Turkish Studies, 2013
Why do the pro-Kurdish activists selectively condemn renowned leftists of treason? Why are allegations of treachery so ubiquitous? Existing literature suggests that the Kurdish community would be particularly receptive to allegations of treason because ...
Mustafa E. Gurbuz
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Integrating Biogeography with Contemporary Niche Theory

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2017
There is no consensus on when biotic interactions impact the range limits of species. Starting from MacArthur's use of invasibility to understand how biotic interactions influence coexistence, here we examine how biotic interactions shape species distributions. Range limits emerge from how birth, death, and movement rates vary with the environment.
Bio-Protection Research Centre, Lincoln University, PO Box 85084, Lincoln 7647, New Zealand ( host institution ), Godsoe, William ( author ), Jankowski, Jill ( author ), Holt, Robert D. ( UF author ), Gravel, Dominique ( author )   +4 more
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Determining trophic niche width: a novel approach using stable isotope analysis [PDF]

, 2004
1. Although conceptually robust, it has proven difficult to find practical measures of niche width that are simple to obtain, yet provide an adequate descriptor of the ecological position of the population examined. 2.
Bearhop, S., Bearhop, Stuart, Fuller, R.A., Waldron, S., Adams, C.E., Macleod, H., Fuller, Richard A., Adams, Colin E., Waldron, Susan   +8 more
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Long-Term Stochasticity Combines With Short-Term Variability in Assembly Processes to Underlie Rice Paddy Sustainability

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Revealing temporal patterns of community assembly processes is important for understanding how microorganisms underlie the sustainability of agroecosystem.
Wenjing Liu, Wenjing Liu, Emily B. Graham, Linghao Zhong, Jianwei Zhang, Shijie Li, Shijie Li, Xiangui Lin, Youzhi Feng   +8 more
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Species-area relationships are controlled by species traits. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
The species-area relationship (SAR) is one of the most thoroughly investigated empirical relationships in ecology. Two theories have been proposed to explain SARs: classical island biogeography theory and niche theory.
Markus Franzén, Oliver Schweiger, Per-Eric Betzholtz   +2 more
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Applying niche theory to endangered plant conservation: analyzing habitat optimization pathways using Rosa anemoniflora as a case study

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Niche theory is a cornerstone of ecology for understanding species coexistence. However, its application to guide conservation remains challenging.
Qun Yu, Chengjie Fu, Xianzhen Zhou, Wei Gao   +3 more
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Niche specialization and community niche space increase with species richness in filter‐feeder assemblages

Ecosphere, 2023
Ecological theory posits that higher species richness should be associated with greater exploitation of resources and niche packing resulting from either increasing species niche overlap or specialization of species' niches.
Irene Sánchez González, Garrett W. Hopper, Jamie R. Bucholz, Megan E. Kubala, Jeffrey D. Lozier, Carla L. Atkinson   +5 more
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Ecological niche of plant pathogens [PDF]

Annals of Forest Research, 2011
Disease ecology is a new approach to the understanding of the spread and dynamics of pathogens in natural and man-made environments. Defining and describing the ecological niche of the pathogens is one of the major tasks for ecological theory, as well as
Ecaterina Fodor
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Defining the Niche for Niche Construction: Evolutionary and Ecological Niches [PDF]

, 2021
Niche construction theory (NCT) aims to transform and unite evolutionary biology and ecology. Much of the debate about NCT has focused on construction.
Trappes, Rose, Trappes, Rose ; https://orcid.org/, Rose Trappes   +2 more
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