RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 On Some Problems of Estimating Fundamental Niche from Physiological Data
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 716688
DO 10.1101/716688
A1 Gutiérrez-Ruelas Jesús Salvador
A1 Laura Jiménez
A1 Ana Patricia Quiroz-Reyes
A1 Sabrina Cherizar Sotelo-Pedroza
A1 Soberon Jorge
YR 2019
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/07/28/716688.abstract
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.