作者
Brigitte Braschler, Grant A Duffy, Erika Nortje, Suzaan Kritzinger‐Klopper, Dorette du Plessis, Natasha Karenyi, Rachel I Leihy, Steven L Chown
发表日期
2020/12
期刊
Journal of Animal Ecology
卷号
89
期号
12
页码范围
2863-2875
简介
- Thermal performance traits are regularly used to make forecasts of the responses of ectotherms to anthropogenic environmental change, but such forecasts do not always differentiate between fundamental and realised thermal niches.
- Here we determine the relative extents to which variation in the fundamental and realised thermal niches accounts for current variation in species abundance and occupancy and assess the effects of niche‐choice on future‐climate response estimations.
- We investigated microclimate and macroclimate temperatures alongside abundance, occupancy, critical thermal limits and foraging activity of 52 ant species (accounting for >95% individuals collected) from a regional assemblage from across the Western Cape Province, South Africa, between 2003 and 2014.
- Capability of a species to occupy sites experiencing the most extreme temperatures, coupled with breadth of realised …
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