Defining and measuring ecological specialization

By V. Devictor, J. Clavel, Romain Julliard, S. Lavergne, David Mouillot, Wilfried Thuiller, P. Venail, Sébastien Villéger, N. Mouquet. 2010

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

Evolution of Ecological Niche Breadth (2017, background): “Recent reviews have detailed different niche breadth metrics (Devictor et al. 2010, Poisot et al. 2011).”
Beyond the Fragmentation Threshold Hypothesis: Regime Shifts in Biodiversity Across Fragmented Landscapes (2010, background): “Geographical range size – one of the traits most often cited as a good predictor of extinction risk – is frequently correlated to niche breath [50], and has been commonly used as a proxy measure of the degree of habitat specialization among species [51].”
Beyond taxonomic diversity patterns: how do α, β and γ components of bird functional and phylogenetic diversity respond to environmental gradients across France? (2011, positive): “…diversity may be closely related to each other due to evolutionary conservatism (Webb et al., 2002), so that protecting phylogenetic diversity would partially cover the need to ensure the maintenance of ecosystem function (Forest et al., 2007; Cadotte et al., 2009; Devictor et al., 2010a).”
The Mediterranean Sea as a ‘cul‐de‐sac’ for endemic fishes facing climate change (2010, background): “Here, we refer to the Grinnellian specialization, defined as the breadth of biotic and abiotic resources required for a species to survive (e.g., DeVictor et al., 2010).”
Measuring ecological niche overlap from occurrence and spatial environmental data (2012, background): “Consistent with aspects of the Grinnellian niche, such assessments pursue questions regarding similarities and differences in the environmental conditions associated with species geographical distributions and how they change over time (Devictor et al., 2010).”
Global patterns of specialization and coexistence in bird assemblages (2012, background): “While some attention has been given to the scale-dependence of specialization within species (Krasnov et al., 2008a; Devictor et al., 2010), few studies have explored the scaling of community-level specialization.”
How to make a common species rare: A case against conservation complacency (2011, background): “In summary, while there are numerous definitions of specialization in the ecological literature (reviewed by Colles et al., 2009; Devictor et al., 2010) and it seems to be re-defined for almost each new publication on the topic, the Greater Glider is not specialized in the most widely recognized sen”
Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird–flower networks (2017, background): “…by these metrics is associated with the concept of ecological specialization (sensu Ollerton et al., 2007) and the realized Eltonian niche (Devictor et al., 2010), where interactions are treated as one dimension of the ecological niche and the degree of interaction specialization…”
A comparative study of ecological specialization estimators (2012, background): “…its ecological and evolutionary consequences, practical information about how it is best measured at the species level is scarce and not integrated across fields [see Bolnick (2002), and Devictor et al. (2010) or Dormann (2011) for, respectively, individual and community level measurement issues].”
Analysing ecological networks of species interactions (2018, background): “Most notions in community ecology, including the definition of a community (Vellend, 2010; Morin, 2011), and several definitions of a niche (Holt, 2009; Devictor et al., 2010), emphasize the need to study the identity of species and their interactions simultaneously (although ecological network anal”