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On Some Problems of Estimating Fundamental Niche from Physiological Data

Gutierrez-Ruelas, J. S.; Jimenez, L.; Quiroz-Reyes, A. P.; Sotelo-Pedroza, S. C.; Soberon, J.

2019-07-28 ecology
10.1101/716688 bioRxiv
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Hutchinson proposed the idea of the fundamental niche, determined by physiological properties of a species, more than 50 years ago. The idea remains both central to ecological thinking and largely unexplored experimentally. In this note, we describe some problems of using physiological experiments databases to estimate fundamental niches, show some solutions, and the apply our solution to testing the prediction that fundamental niches contain realized niches, for some species of marine fishes and terrestrial beetles. Our results were concordant with Hutchinsons predictions.

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