The relationship between range size and niche breadth : a test using five species of Gammarus (Amphipoda)

By Kevin J. Gaston, John I. Spicer. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography

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Physiological Correlates of Geographic Range in Animals (2011, background): “Stevens (1989) suggested variation among species’ physiological tolerance level as the possible explanation for this pattern, which later became the CVH (see Gaston 2003, Gaston & Spicer 2001, Spicer & Gaston 1999).”
Rarity, specialization and extinction in primates (2002, background): “…29, 445–456 data are too variable to show an effect because we did not more tightly confine the analysis either taxonomically or regionally (Gaston & Spicer, 2001), why is there an effect with measures of specialization, but not with those of resource use or recovery rate, even within…”
Thermal tolerance and geographical range size in the Agabus brunneus group of European diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) (2007, background): “…1999), and widespread species are therefore thought to have broader fundamental niches, defined by their greater physiological plasticity and environmental tolerance, compared with narrow-range taxa (Stanley & Parsons, 1984; Barnby, 1987; Gaston & Spicer, 2001; Cleavitt, 2002; Calosi et al., 2007).”
Niche breadth and trophic diversity: feeding behaviour of the red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) towards environmental availability of aquatic macroinvertebrates in a rice field (Portugal) (2002, background): “A large niche breadth indicates that the species is able to use a wide variety of resources, achieving high local densities and hence occupy a larger area (Gaston and Spicer, 2001).”
Responses of ‘resistant’ vertebrates to habitat loss and fragmentation: the importance of niche breadth and range boundaries (2003, background): “Species with broad niches tend to be characterized by larger geographical ranges (e.g. Thompson et al., 1998, 1999; Pyron, 1999; Gaston & Spicer, 2001; but see MacNally, 1995), resulting in negative collinearity between niche breadth and proximity to a geographical range boundary.”