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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Guisan, Antoine
• Petitpierre, Blaise
• Broennimann, Olivier
• Daehler, Curtis
• Kueffer, Christoph

Titel

Unifying niche shift studies: insights from biological invasions

Ist Teil von

• Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam), 2014-05, Vol.29 (5), p.260-269

Ort / Verlag

Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •We propose a unifying framework for assessing niche shifts from empirical data.•We base it on a review of studies of niche changes during biological invasions.•It decomposes niche changes and accounts for environmental availability and analogy.•This unifying framework allows proper comparison of existing and future niche studies.•It can also guide management under global change and the design of niche change experiments. Assessing whether the climatic niche of a species may change between different geographic areas or time periods has become increasingly important in the context of ongoing global change. However, approaches and findings have remained largely controversial so far, calling for a unification of methods. Here, we build on a review of empirical studies of invasion to formalize a unifying framework that decomposes niche change into unfilling, stability, and expansion situations, taking both a pooled range and range-specific perspective on the niche, while accounting for climatic availability and climatic analogy. This framework provides new insights into the nature of climate niche shifts and our ability to anticipate invasions, and may help in guiding the design of experiments for assessing causes of niche changes.