A physiological analogy of the niche for projecting the potential distribution of plants

By Steven Higgins, R. O’Hara, O. Bykova, M. Cramer, I. Chuine, Eva-Maria Gerstner, Thomas Hickler, X. Morin, Michael R. Kearney, Guy F. Midgley and 1 more. 2012

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Where do functional traits come from? The role of theory and models (2019, background): “Energy and mass budget models of organism are emerging for both animals and plants (Higgins et al., 2012; Kearney & Porter, 2020; Levy et al., 2016; Schouten, 2020).”
Temperature dependence of the reproduction niche and its relevance for plant species distributions (2012, methodology): “This method has been shown to be successful, for example, for parameterizing a process-based SDM based on Thornley’s transport resistance model for 22 European tree species (Higgins et al., 2012).”
Where, why and how? Explaining the low‐temperature range limits of temperate tree species (2016, background): “Distribution maps and correlations with presumed environmental drivers may provide proxies of likely controls (Austin & Van Niel 2011), but they do not yield mechanistic explanations, and may match certain drivers by coincidence (Higgins et al. 2012a).”
Mechanistic and Correlative Models of Ecological Niches (2015, background): “2014) or first-principles biophysical models (Kearney & Porter 2009; Buckley et al. 2010; Higgins et al. 2012), one is measuring the multidimensional projection of a theoretical, fundamental niche onto a simpler space consisting of the set of variables that is actually being measured or modelled (Dr”
How to understand species’ niches and range dynamics: a demographic research agenda for biogeography (2012, background): “rates respond to environmental variation (Cleland et al., 2007; Kearney & Porter, 2009; Bykova et al., 2012; Higgins et al., 2012).”
Establishing the link between habitat selection and animal population dynamics (2015, background): “…spatial approaches (Chase and Leibold 2003, Kearney and Porter 2004, Moorcroft and Lewis 2006, Patterson et al. 2008, Schick et al. 2008, Higgins et al. 2012), empirical SDMs are unparalleled in their taxonomic generality, ease of use, and computational expediency for population-level…”