Mechanistic niche modelling: combining physiological and spatial data to predict species' ranges.

By Michael R. Kearney, Warren P. Porter. Ecology Letters, 2009

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Climate change and European forests: what do we know, what are the uncertainties, and what are the implications for forest management? (2014, background): “In other words the physiological limits of species are usually wider than the boundaries of the current distribution range (e.g. Loehle and LeBlanc, 1996; Kearney and Porter, 2009).”
Tools for integrating range change, extinction risk and climate change information into conservation management (2013, background): “There are also mechanistic biophysical models that either do not require any information about a species’ distribution, or use this information for parameter calibration (Kearney and Porter 2009).”
The art of modelling range‐shifting species (2010, neutral): “Alternative approaches based explicitly on known mechanisms (Kearney & Porter 2009) are likely to be robust under new environmental combinations in new locations but are limited by the availability of data for model parameterization and because their success in predicting range limits relies on the…”
Niche conservatism as an emerging principle in ecology and conservation biology. (2010, background): “Thus, when placed in the framework of NC, the observation that tropical species of Drosophila lack genetic variation for the traits underlying cold tolerance (Kellermann et al. 2009) becomes relevant to explaining many different patterns.”
A framework for incorporating evolutionary genomics into biodiversity conservation and management (2015, background): “matic space a species can tolerate may be substantially greater than the area where it actually persist [8,9].”
Biodiversity in a changing climate: a synthesis of current and projected trends in the US (2013, background): “New modeling efforts are progressively incorporating variables that previously were unaccounted for (Cheung et al. 2009; Kearney and Porter 2009; Stock et al. 2011).”
Comparative analysis of diversity and environmental niches of soil bacterial, archaeal, fungal and protist communities reveal niche divergences along environmental gradients in the Alps (2021, background): “It has been used to investigate biotic interactions (Wiens, 2011), community dynamics (Cabral and Kreft, 2012), geographic range limits (Kearney and Porter, 2009; Pagel and Schurr, 2012), conservation”
The nature of nutrition: a unifying framework (2011, background): “These models define the combinations of environmental variables that are suitable for survival and reproduction for a species, and have been applied at the scale of landscapes to predict the distribution, temperature, energy and water relations of organisms (Kearney and Porter 2009).”
Combining heat-transfer and energy budget models to predict thermal stress in Mediterranean intertidal mussels (2011, background): “Although much more work is needed to understand how the physical environment affects fitness via the modification of functional traits [16,23], recent advances and access to data have allowed the application of biophysical–ecological (BE) models to describe the climatic niche of intertidal organisms”
Past tree range dynamics in the Iberian Peninsula inferred through phylogeography and palaeodistribution modelling: A review (2010, background): “There are currently two main approaches to model species distributions (see Guisan and Zimmermann, 2000; Pearson and Dawson, 2003; Guisan and Thuiller, 2005; Kearney and Porter, 2009 for reviews).”
Geographic variation in vulnerability to climate warming in a tropical Caribbean lizard (2012, background): “As such, knowledge of variation in the thermal environment throughout an ectothermic species’ range can greatly contribute to our understanding of that species’ ecology (Kearney & Porter 2009).”