Co‐occurrence based assessment of habitat generalists and specialists: a new approach for the measurement of niche width

By J. Fridley, D. Vandermast, D. Kuppinger, M. Manthey, Robert K. Peet. 2007

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

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Citations in the corpus

Linking small-scale topography with microclimate, plant species diversity and intra-specific trait variation in an alpine landscape (2015, methodology): “Second, as a biotic approach, we used recently developed methods (Fridley et al. 2007; Manthey and Fridley 2009) to estimate the width of each species’ realised niche based on co-occurrence data.”
Defining and measuring ecological specialization (2010, background): “For instance, Fridley et al. (2007) have recently proposed that measurement of ecological specialization can be based upon the assumption that generalist species should co-occur with many different species across sites, whereas specialists should co-occur with relatively few species.”
Evolution of Ecological Niche Breadth (2017, methodology): “Third, interaction-based approaches use species co-occurrence data to define ecological niche breadth (e.g., Fridley et al. 2007) (Table 1).”
Impacts of habitat loss and restoration on amphibian populations (2009, methodology): “In addition to the technical problems with measuring niche breadth (Lawton 1993, Fridley et al. 2007), the basic relationship between ecological niche and rarity of species is still debated in ecological theory.”
Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization? (2011, background): “2007), and trees (Fridley et al. 2007), which facilitates the study of this trait in various contexts (eg different spatial scales and different trophic levels).”
Measuring community responses to large‐scale disturbance in conservation biogeography (2009, methodology): “The ecological specialization index recently proposed by Fridley et al. (2007) which only requires presence– absence data of species across sites can be used as well.”
The challenge of maintaining Atlantic forest biodiversity: A multi-taxa conservation assessment of specialist and generalist species in an agro-forestry mosaic in southern Bahia (2009, background): “for animals (Dunn and Romdal, 2005; Bobo et al., 2006; Fridley et al., 2007; Umetsu and Pardini, 2007), are good predictors of species vulnerability to habitat change.”
Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation (2010, methodology): “We calculated for each species the theta index to estimate its degree of specialization (Fridley et al. 2007).”
Functional homogenization of bird communities along habitat gradients: accounting for niche multidimensionality (2010, background): “This problem is also present in a recent proposal to calculate niche width based on species co-existences (Fridley et al., 2007).”
Niche breadth predicts geographical range size: a general ecological pattern. (2013, unknown): “Second, we identified original papers outlining commonly used metrics for niche breadth (Pielou 1974; Hurlbert 1978; Feinsinger et al. 1981; ter Braak 1986; Dol edec et al. 2000; Fridley et al. 2007; Warren et al. 2008) and used Web of Science to retrieve all publications citing each of these.”
Pladias Database of the Czech flora and vegetation (2021, background): “The underlying assumption is that variation in the composition of co-occurring taxa indicates the range of habitat conditions suitable to this taxon (Fridley et al. 2007).”