PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gutiérrez-Ruelas Jesús Salvador
AU  - Laura Jiménez
AU  - Ana Patricia Quiroz-Reyes
AU  - Sabrina Cherizar Sotelo-Pedroza
AU  - Soberon Jorge
TI  - On Some Problems of Estimating Fundamental Niche from Physiological Data
AID  - 10.1101/716688
DP  - 2019 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 716688
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/07/28/716688.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/07/28/716688.full
AB  - 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 Hutchinson’s predictions.