Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches

By Marc W. Cadotte. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2004

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The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems. (2011, background): “Throughout most of the 20th century, the niche concept was primarily developed to explain what ecological factors maintain biological diversity in the face of competition among species for scarce resources ( Chase and Leibold, 2003 ).”
Fungal Taxa Target Different Carbon Sources in Forest Soil (2008, background): “How do so many species coexist in natural soil environments, where there is a limited amount of available space and resources? One mechanism responsible for the maintenance of diversity is the ability of coexisting species to vary in their patterns of resource utilization, resulting in a reduction i”
Linking modern coexistence theory and contemporary niche theory (2017, methodology): “Following Pianka (1973), Petraitis (1989), and Chase and Leibold (2003), we define impact niche overlap as the cosine of the angle between the impact vectors, θ (where complete niche overlap = cosine(0) = 1).”
Assembly rules of ground‐foraging ant assemblages are contingent on disturbance, habitat and spatial scale (2007, background): “A common theme in studies of community assembly and biogeography is that local assemblages are composed of a set of species with co-adjusted niches that partition limited resources (Diamond, 1975; Chase & Leibold, 2003 ).”
Divergent and narrower climatic niches characterize polyploid species of European primroses in Primula sect. Aleuritia (2013, neutral): “The realized environmental niche of a given species is defined as the subset of the abiotic environment of a species that is actually occupied by the species, given the accessibility of such environment through dispersal and the influence of biotic factors (Chase & Leibold, 2003).”
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: A complex adaptive systems approach (2004, background): “0633T following Eppley (1972). For any temperature, T, a species with an optimal growth at Zopt 5 T will have the maximum possible growth rate determined by the envelope function and will thus be the competitive dominant.”
Dynamic interactions of life and its landscape: feedbacks at the interface of geomorphology and ecology (2010, background): “One of the central tenets of ecology is that every species must somehow use biologically limiting resources in a ways that are spatially or temporally unique in order to coexist in nature (Chesson, 2000; Chase and Leibold, 2003).”
Grinnellian and Eltonian niches and geographic distributions of species. (2007, background): “…niches of Hutchinson (1957, 1978) can be applied to both classes, as well as the concept of multidimensional spaces of niche variables (James et al. 1984; Chase & Leibold 2003), but the details change significantly as the challenges of measuring scenopoetic and bionomic axes are totally different.”
Drought mediates the importance of stochastic community assembly (2007, background): “, competition, predation) to determine how species diversity and composition vary along environmental and/or spatiotemporal gradients (3).”
Biotic interactions hold the key to understanding metacommunity organisation (2020, background): “2018), supporting Grinnellian ideas (Chase and Leibold 2003) that species occurrences are primarily explained in terms of the resistance of biotas to prevailing abiotic environmental conditions.”
Understorey diversity in southern boreal forests is regulated by productivity and its indirect impacts on resource availability and heterogeneity (2012, background): “Similarly as shown for ponds (Chase & Leibold 2003), rough comparisons of boreal forest data bases suggest that at the continental scale, the more productive, warmer southern boreal forests have greater total vascular plant species richness than less productive, colder northern boreal forests…”