Thermal adaptation generates a diversity of thermal limits in a rainforest ant community

M Kaspari, NA Clay, J Lucas… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Thermal Adaptation Hypothesis posits that the warmer, aseasonal tropics
generates populations with higher and narrower thermal limits. It has largely been tested …

Biogeographic patterns of microbial co-occurrence ecological networks in six American forests

Q Tu, Q Yan, Y Deng, ST Michaletz, V Buzzard… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rather than simple accumulation of individual populations, microorganisms in natural
ecosystems form complex ecological networks that are critical to maintain ecosystem …

Competition and resource breadth shape niche variation and overlap in multiple trophic dimensions

R Costa-Pereira, MS Araújo… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Competition plays a central role in the maintenance of biodiversity. A backbone of classic
niche theory is that local coexistence of competitors is favoured by the contraction or …

Resource diversity promotes among‐individual diet variation, but not genomic diversity, in lake stickleback

DI Bolnick, KM Ballare - Ecology letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many generalist species consist of specialised individuals that use different resources. This
within‐population niche variation can stabilise population and community dynamics …

Assessing the Synergistic Effects of Land Use and Climate Change on Terrestrial Biodiversity: Are Generalists Always the Winners?

CP Sweeney, MA Jarzyna - Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review There is increasing evidence that land use and land cover
(LULC) change interacts with climate change to shape biodiversity dynamics. The prevailing …

Drivers of individual niche variation in coexisting species

R Costa‐Pereira, VHW Rudolf, FL Souza… - Journal of Animal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Although neglected by classic niche theory, individual variation is now recognized as a
prevalent phenomenon in nature with evolutionary and ecological relevance. Recent theory …

Modeling terrestrial carbon and water dynamics across climatic gradients: does plant trait diversity matter?

C Pappas, S Fatichi, P Burlando - New Phytologist, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Plant trait diversity in many vegetation models is crudely represented using a discrete
classification of a handful of 'plant types'(named plant functional types; PFTs). The …

Beyond ecological opportunity: Prey diversity rather than abundance shapes predator niche variation

J Sánchez‐Hernández, AG Finstad… - Freshwater …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological opportunity (ie the diversity of available resources) has a pivotal role in sha**
niche variation and trophic specialisation of animals. However, ecological opportunity can …

ATLANTIC MAMMAL TRAITS: a data set of morphological traits of mammals in the Atlantic Forest of South America

F Gonçalves, RS Bovendorp, G Beca, C Bello… - 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Measures of traits are the basis of functional biological diversity. Numerous works consider
mean species‐level measures of traits while ignoring individual variance within species …

Intraspecific ecological niche divergence and reproductive shifts foster cytotype displacement and provide ecological opportunity to polyploids

P Karunarathne, M Schedler, EJ Martínez… - Annals of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Niche divergence between polyploids and their lower ploidy
progenitors is one of the primary mechanisms fostering polyploid establishment and …