Ecological Niche Modeling
Genetic and ecological niche modeling of Calydorea crocoides (Iridaceae): An endemic species of Subtropical Highland Grasslands
... Data collection of all populations of Calydorea crocoides found between the years 2004 to 2016 were used to construct a distribution map for the species (Table S1). The map was constructed using the program DIVA-GIS ...
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Using ecological niche modeling to determine avian richness hotspots
... ABSTRACT: Understanding distributions of wildlife species is a key step towards identifying biodiversity hotspots and designing effective conservation strategies. In this paper, the spatial pattern of diversity of birds ...
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Ecological niche modeling of Bacillus anthracis on three continents: evidence for genetic-ecological divergence?
... make ecological niche modeling valuable for predicting the spatial distribution of ...anthrax. Ecological niche models (ENMs) are frequently used to predict the potential distributions ...
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Ecological niche modeling, cytogenetics and phylogeography of the genera Geomalacus and Letourneuxia (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) from the Iberian-Moroccan region
... Biogeography, a centenary discipline founded by Alfred Russel Wallace, is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems through space and time, an essential discipline to understand not only the where and when, ...
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The use of ecological niche modeling to infer potential risk areas of snakebite in the Mexican state of Veracruz.
... The principal goal of this paper was to evaluate the utility of ENM and DNC approaches in combination with socioeconomic variables to infer potential risk areas of snakebites in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. We first ...
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Limnoperna fortunei in the Upper Paraguay River system using
... An ecological niche modeling approach, based on limnological variables, was used to predict the expansion of the golden mussel in the Paraguay River and its ...
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Ecological niche models and patterns of richness and endemism of the southern Andean genus Eurymetopum (Coleoptera, Cleridae)
... resolution. Ecological niche modeling for species with more than 15 records was performed using the default parameters (maximum iterations to 500 and using convergence threshold in ...of ...
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Ecology and geography of transmission of two bat-borne rabies lineages in Chile.
... using ecological niche modeling, we address these questions to help in understanding rabies-bat ecological dynamics in South ...found ecological niche identity between both hosts ...
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Occurrence of Cabassous tatouay (Cingulata, Dasypodidae) in Rio Grande do Sul and its potential distribution in southern Brazil
... Ecological niche modeling results (Fig. 2) showed the areas most ecological and geographic suitable for ...generated ecological niche model, the most important variables for ...
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Unveiling the conservation biogeography of a data-deficient endangered bird species under climate change.
... It remains a challenge to identify the geographical patterns and underlying environmental associations of species with unique ecological niches and distinct behaviors. This in turn hinders our understanding of the ...
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Distributional potential of the Triatoma brasiliensis species complex at present and under scenarios of future climate conditions
... reviewed ecological niche models (ENMs) as a tool permitting better under- standing along these lines; and Diniz-Filho and colleagues [34] analyzed geographic patterns and environmental correlates of ...
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Carbon isotopic composition of branched tetraether membrane lipids in soils suggest a rapid turnover and a heterotrophic life style of their source organism(s)
... teria (e.g. Sakata et al., 1997). In the absence of cultured species of branched GDGT-synthesising bacteria, the carbon isotopic composition of branched GDGT lipids in the envi- ronment might, thus, provide additional ...
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Anticipating the response of the Brazilian giant earthworm (Rhinodrilus alatus ) to climate change: implications for its traditional use
... The high sampling effort allowed a confident characterization of the geographical and ecological range of R. alatus, enabling a congruent ENM, which confirms R. alatus as a savanna species associated with the ...
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Predicting the current and future potential distributions of lymphatic filariasis in Africa using maximum entropy ecological niche modelling.
... the ecological niche and the present and future spatial occurrence of LF in Africa, there are several limitations that need to be borne in mind when interpreting the present ...though ecological ...
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The probabilistic niche model reveals the niche structure and role of body size in a complex food web.
... species’ niche parameters and their biology (whether body size or some other aspect) reflects the way in which the niche model has been ...the niche model has usually been employed using what might ...
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The genotypic structure of a multi-host bumblebee parasite suggests a role for ecological niche overlap.
... A redundancy analysis (RDA) was performed in the statistics package R version 2.10.1 (from the R Foundation for Statistical Computing) to look for correspondence between C. bombi alleles, i.e. parasite genotypes, and ...
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Pattern recognition and simulation in ecology
... In this special issue, we present eight peer-reviewed papers that are written under the banner of the theme on Pattern recognition and simulation in ecology. These papers were originally presented at the International ...
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Local-scale models reveal ecological niche variability in amphibian and reptile communities from two contrasting biogeographic regions
... We have built ENMs of amphibian and reptile communities in two Spanish National Parks, Picos de Europa and Cabañeros, located in two contrasted biogeographic regions of the Iberian Peninsula, the Atlantic and ...
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Relationship between Ecological Concepts and Biosafety in Broiler Breeder Farms
... The adaptation of exotic and natural populations by co-evolution may be related to an ecological succession process, which starts with deforestation and in the landfill of the natural area (Odum, 1988). As ...
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Ecological modeling and pest population management: a possible and necessary connection in a changing world
... exhibit ecological patterns which may describe important trends that can indicate susceptibility to crashes or outbreaks (Kogan & Jepson ...in ecological patterns and predicting outbreaks are essential ...
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