Ditch the niche – is the niche a useful concept in ecology or species distribution modelling?

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Bringing Elton and Grinnell Together: a quantitative framework to represent the biogeography of ecological interaction networks (2016, unknown): “These perspectives are rather orthogonal to each other, and this has resulted in considerable confusion in the literature (McInerny & Etienne, 2012a).”
Mechanistic and Correlative Models of Ecological Niches (2015, background): “After a period of stagnation (approximately 1980-1990), during which research about niches was minimal (McInerny & Etienne 2012a, b), the term has seen a vibrant rebirth in recent decades.”
Hypervolume concepts in niche‐ and trait‐based ecology (2018, background): “5-EV shifts in opinion about the utility of the concept for realized or fundamental niche modeling (Holt 2009, McInerny and Etienne 2012), which in turn has shaped support for other applications of the concept.”