Vol. 39, No. 12, Special Issue: The Ecological Niche as a Window to Biodiversity (December 2012), pp. 2112-2118 (7 pages) In a discussion it is often easier to staunchly reject or offer resolute ...

Post-2020, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5 circulation is characterised by spatially expanded ecological suitability, changes in key environmental predictors, and a wider range of avian species ...

The relationship between lineage formation and variation in the ecological niche is a fundamental evolutionary question. Two prevailing hypotheses reflect this relationship: niche conservatism and ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers compared ecological niches to identify probable mpox virus (MPXV) reservoir hosts. Study: Identifying the most probable mammal ...

More than four decades ago, field ecologists set out to quantify the diversity of trees on a forested plot on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, one of the most intensively studied tracts of tropical ...

The behavioural ecologist Professor Dr. Oliver Krüger from Bielefeld University is the speaker; the evolutionary biologist Professor Dr. Joachim Kurtz from the University of Münster, assumes the role ...

In biology, phylogenetic trees represent the evolutionary history and diversification of species - the "family tree" of Life. Phylogenetic trees not only describe the evolution of a group of organisms ...

Variation in the ecological niches of closely related or co-occurring species is a key factor that underpins evolutionary diversification and extinction. Niche breadth regulates the diversity of ...

Thanks to five mass extinctions, about 99 percent of all animal species have come and gone from the face of the earth.During many of these events, life took the greatest hit where it probably began: ...