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Ecological niche structure determines rangewide abundance patterns of species
dc.contributor.author | Martínez-Meyer, Enrique | |
dc.contributor.author | Díaz-Porras, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.author | Peterson, A. Townsend | |
dc.contributor.author | Yáñez-Arenas, Carlos | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-03T16:48:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-09-03T16:48:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-09-03 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10061 | |
dc.description | data sets used in the paper: Martínez-Meyer, E., Díaz-Porras, D., Peterson, A. T. & Yáñez-Arenas, C. (2012) Ecological niche structure determines rangewide abundance patterns of species. Biology Letters. | |
dc.description.abstract | Spatial abundance patterns across species’ ranges have seen intense attention in macroecology and biogeography. One key hypothesis has been that abundance declines with geographic distance from the range center (‘abundant-center hypothesis’), but tests of this idea have shown that the effect does not hold generally, and indeed may be true only in a minority of cases. We explore an alternative hypothesis: that species’ abundances decline with distance from the centroid of the species’ habitable conditions in environmental space (the ecological niche). We demonstrate consistent negative abundance-ecological distance relationships across 10 of 11 species (turtles to wolves), and that relationships in environmental space are consistently stronger than relationships in geographic space. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/9/1/20120637 | |
dc.subject | Ecological niche modeling | |
dc.subject | Abundances | |
dc.subject | Supplementary material | |
dc.subject | Data | |
dc.title | Ecological niche structure determines rangewide abundance patterns of species | |
dc.type | Dataset | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0637 | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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