The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

By J. Levine, J. HilleRisLambers. Nature, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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On some hypotheses of diversity of animal life at great depths on the sea floor (2015, background): “…models built around competition, acting as a primary driver for niche partitioning, have been challenged by the neutral theory of biodiversity (Hubbell 2001), the importance of niche differentiation in the maintenance of species diversity remains firmly recognized (Levine & HilleRisLambers 2009).”
Dispersal and diversity in experimental metacommunities: linking theory and practice (2016, background): “…species can be undertaken simultaneously within a community when species at very low abundances are only likely to interact with abundant species rather than each other, which greatly reduces the number of experimental treatments required (Levine and HilleRisLambers 2009, Godoy and Levine 2014).”
Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities. (2010, background): “Based on the arguments presented here, answering this question will require separating the influence of niche and competitive ability differences, the details of which are explained in several recent papers (Chesson 2000; Leibold & McPeek 2006; Adler et al. 2007; Levine & HilleRisLambers 2009).”
Niche differentiation among invasive crayfish and their impacts on ecosystem structure and functioning (2014, background): “Niche partitioning suggests that interspecific competition will be low and, therefore, the niche width should be consistent between allopatric and sympatric populations (Gilbert, Srivastava and Kirby, 2008; Levine and HilleRisLambers, 2009).”
How to quantify competitive ability (2018, background): “…which describes annual plant competitive population dynamics in the field (Beverton & Holt, 1957; Firbank & Watkinson, 1985; Leslie & Gower, 1958; Levine & Hille Ris Lambers, 2009; Watkinson, 1981): Ni,t is the density of individuals of species i at time t, λi is the perindividual fecundity in…”
Chesson's coexistence theory (2018, background): “The above is a quote from HilleRisLambers et al. (2012), but see also Chesson (2000b), Adler et al. (2007), Levine and HilleRisLambers (2009), Adler et al. (2010), Mayfield and Levine (2010), Chesson (2011), Narwani et al. (2013), and Kraft et al. (2015).”
Linking modern coexistence theory and contemporary niche theory (2017, background): “An example of a stabilizing mechanism would be coexisting plant species acquiring resources from different depths, assuming that the supply of resources is independent (Levine and HilleRisLambers, 2009).”
Accurate predictions of coexistence in natural systems require the inclusion of facilitative interactions and environmental dependency (2018, methodology): “Though this natural variation in interaction strengths is implicit in coexistence theory (Chesson, 1994), it has rarely been accounted for in empirical tests of the theory (see Levine & HilleRisLambers, 2009; Godoy, Kraft, & Levine, 2014, for tests of this framework in annual plant systems).”
Tree diversity is key for promoting the diversity and abundance of forest‐associated taxa in Europe (2020, background): “This should provide more niches and therefore allow a larger number of forestassociated species to coexist (Levine and HilleRisLambers 2009).”