The n‐dimensional hypervolume

B Blonder, C Lamanna, C Violle… - Global Ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim The Hutchinsonian hypervolume is the conceptual foundation for many lines of
ecological and evolutionary inquiry, including functional morphology, comparative biology …

Hypervolume concepts in niche‐and trait‐based ecology

B Blonder - Ecography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hutchinson's n‐dimensional hypervolume concept for the interpretation of niches as
geometric shapes has provided a foundation for research across different fields of ecology …

New approaches for delineating n‐dimensional hypervolumes

B Blonder, CB Morrow, B Maitner… - Methods in Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hutchinson's n‐dimensional hypervolume concept underlies many applications in
contemporary ecology and evolutionary biology. Estimating hypervolumes from sampled …

Dynamic range boxes – a robust nonparametric approach to quantify size and overlap of n‐dimensional hypervolumes

RR Junker, J Kuppler, AC Bathke… - Methods in Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Summary n‐dimensional hypervolumes are commonly applied in ecology and evolutionary
studies to describe and compare niches, trait spaces characterizing phenotypes or the …

Assessing similarity of n‐dimensional hypervolumes: Which metric to use?

S Mammola - Journal of Biogeography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The n‐dimensional hypervolume framework (Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr.[2014] 23: 595–609)
implemented through the R package'hypervolume'is being increasingly used in ecology and …

Functional diversity metrics using kernel density n‐dimensional hypervolumes

S Mammola, P Cardoso - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The use of n‐dimensional hypervolumes in trait‐based ecology is rapidly increasing. By
representing the functional space of a species or community as a Hutchinsonian niche, the …

Decomposing the causes for niche differentiation between species using hypervolumes

JC Carvalho, P Cardoso - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Hutchinson's n-dimensional hypervolume concept holds a central role across different fields
of ecology and evolution. The question of the amount of hypervolume overlap and …

Do hypervolumes have holes?

B Blonder - The American Naturalist, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Hypervolumes are used widely to conceptualize niches and trait distributions for both
species and communities. Some hypervolumes are expected to be convex, with boundaries …

A new probabilistic method for quantifying n‐dimensional ecological niches and niche overlap

HK Swanson, M Lysy, M Power, AD Stasko… - Ecology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Considerable progress has been made in the development of statistical tools to quantify
trophic relationships using stable isotope ratios, including tools that address size and …

Towards a unified descriptive theory for spatial ecology: predicting biodiversity patterns across spatial scales

S Azaele, A Maritan, SJ Cornell… - Methods in Ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A key challenge for both ecological researchers and biodiversity managers is the
measurement and prediction of species richness across spatial scales. Typically …