Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology.

By John J. Wiens, David D. Ackerly, A. P. Allen, B. Anacker, Lauren B. Buckley, H. Cornell, Ellen I. Damschen, T. Jonathan Davies, John‐Arvid Grytnes, S. Harrison and 4 more. Ecology Letters, 2010

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Species Delimitation: A Decade After the Renaissance (2013, neutral): “In contrast, in cases of morphologically-cryptic species due to for example to niche conservatism [96], genetic divergence and lineage sort‐ ing is expected to occur in neutral markers due to independent evolution in isolation, and those markers with higher mutation rates and smaller effective popul”
Stochastic Community Assembly: Does It Matter in Microbial Ecology? (2017, background): “The basic assumption of niche theory is that species differ in their niches, which are sets of biotic and abiotic conditions under which species can persist (74, 75).”
Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies (2015, background): “…diversity as a predictor of ecosystem functioning assumes 558 that evolutionary distance and ecological differentiation are positively related, with close 559 relatives being ecologically more similar than distant relatives (i.e., phylogenetic signal; 560 Losos 2008, Wiens et al. 2010).”
Using ecological niche modelling to evaluate niche stability in deep time (2012, background): “Because how species respond to changing conditions is such a fundamental question (Wiens et al., 2010), numerous studies have investigated the relative stability of species niches in ecological time (reviewed in Pearman et al., 2008 and Peterson, 2011).”
Integrating ensemble species distribution modelling and statistical phylogeography to inform projections of climate change impacts on species distributions (2013, background): “Ecologists looking to model future impacts of climate change on species distributions can integrate phylogeography to address one of the fundamental assumptions of projecting SDMs: niche conservatism, or the tendency of a species to retain its climatic niche over time (Wiens et al., 2010).”
Effects of plant phylogenetic diversity on herbivory depend on herbivore specialization (2014, background): “The main mechanism behind this relationship is that closely related host plants are more likely to share functional traits involved in host recognition and exploitation (G omez, Verd u & Perfectti 2010; Wiens et al. 2010) and are therefore more prone to share common herbivores (Ødegaard, Diserud & Ø”
Wetland-Dryland Vegetational Dynamics in the Pennsylvanian Ice Age Tropics (2013, background): “…centroids of the major clades, resulting in phylogenetically conservative patterns of species replacement through time (DiMichele and Phillips 1996a), so-called niche conservatism (this is currently an active field of study; see Ackerly 2003; Wiens 2004; Wiens and Graham 2005; Wiens et al. 2010).”
Shocks to the system: community assembly of the oak savanna in a 40-year fire frequency experiment (2012, background): “Key words: Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve; climatic perturbation; community-weighted means; depth of turnover; fire frequency; functional traits; oak savanna; phylogenetic niche conservatism; phylogeny.”
Phylogenetic clustering and overdispersion for alpine plants along elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains Region, southwest China (2014, background): “Niche conservatism describes the tendency for closely related species to retain their niches and related ecological traits over time (Wiens & Graham, 2005; Wiens et al., 2010).”
Applications of species distribution modeling to paleobiology (2011, background): “However, evidence for niche shifts must be balanced against abundant direct and indirect evidence for niche stability across broad organismal groups even at long-term geological and evolutionary time-scales (Mosbrugger, 1997; Peterson, 1999; Prinzing et al., 2001; Moe and Smith, 2005; Mosbrugger et ”
Extinction risk of North American seed plants elevated by climate and land‐use change (2017, background): “phylogenetic niche conservatism) (Araujo & New 2007; Wiens et al. 2010), impacts of environmental change may have a disproportionate effect on some closely related species or clades (Thuiller et al.”
Predicting phenology by integrating ecology, evolution and climate science (2011, background): “While evolutionary niche conservatism is increasingly recognized as a pervasive phenomenon with broad ecological implications (Wiens et al., 2010), there has been some debate as to its definition (Losos, 2008).”