Habitat, environment and niche: what are we modelling?

By Michael R. Kearney. 2006

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A Systematic Review of Marine-Based Species Distribution Models (SDMs) with Recommendations for Best Practice (2017, background): “For instance, Chase and Leibold (2003) have reviewed the historic context of the niche concept and other studies (Kearney, 2006) have presented an integrated way of using those terms in the context of SDMs.”
Climate change increases risk of plant invasion in the Eastern United States (2009, background): “Climatic habitat is defined as land area characterized by climate conditions important to a species’ distribution and abundance (Kearney 2006).”
Niche and area of distribution modeling: a population ecology perspective (2010, background): “It is unfortunate that to a certain extent the literature is still mired in semantic arguments about whether those sets should be called niches or not, (Kearney 2006, Jiménez-Valverde et al. 2008), or the precise nature of the objects modeled by SDM and ENM.”
From introduction to the establishment of alien species: bioclimatic differences between presence and reproduction localities in the slider turtle (2009, background): “However, a more complete modelling of ecological niche should define the environmental conditions where the fitness of individuals is greater than one (Guisan & Thuiller, 2005; Kearney, 2006).”
Predicting distributions of invasive species (2013, background): “The dimensions of this niche are limited to the subset of all possible conditions that directly affect the fitness of the organism (Kearney, 2006).”
Ecological niche shifts and environmental space anisotropy: a cautionary note (2011, background): “However, as we said before, measuring the NF can only be done, generally speaking, mechanistically or experimentally (Kearney, 2006; Soberón, 2007; Kearney and Porter, 2009).”
What does ecological modelling model? A proposed classification of ecological niche models based on their underlying methods (2011, background): “This distinction illustrates the lack of consensual ecological modelling terminology, necessary to avoid misunderstandings (Kearney, 2006; Hirzel and Le Lay, 2008) and to take into account the ecological niche theory (Peterson, 2006).”
Prediction and validation of the potential global distribution of a problematic alien invasive species — the American bullfrog (2007, background): “The predictions obtained from climatic model are based on the ‘realized niche’ of the species within their range (Kearney, 2006).”
Thermal performance curves, phenotypic plasticity, and the time scales of temperature exposure. (2011, background): “In particular, TPCs can be incorporated into mechanistically based models of responses of organisms to climate change (Helmuth et al. 2005; Kearney 2006; Kearney and Porter 2009; Angert et al. 2011), which may have advantages relative to other approaches (such as climate envelope models; Pearson…”
Mechanistic and Correlative Models of Ecological Niches (2015, background): “This paper thus sets out to review these three approaches that are often perceived as competing (Kearney 2006) or as a part of a continuum (Dormann et al. 2012).”
Grinnellian and Eltonian niches and geographic distributions of species. (2007, background): “Estimation of NF remains a thorny practical problem that probably can be solved only by resorting to direct experimental measures of intrinsic growth rates, or to first-principle models (Porter et al. 2002; Pearson & Dawson 2003; Kearny & Porter 2004; Kearny 2006).”
Predator–prey interactions under climate change: the importance of habitat vs body temperature (2009, background): “If the predator prey interaction is included in the calculation of the niche, one can obtain better approximation of the realized niche of either species (Hutchinson 1957, Kearney 2006).”