Today's scientists are facing the enormous challenge of predicting how climate change will
affect species distributions and species assemblages. To do so, ecologists are widely using …

Phylogenetic niche conservatism (PNC) typically refers to the tendency of closely related
species to be more similar to each other in terms of niche than they are to more distant …

This book introduces the key stages of niche-based habitat suitability model building,
evaluation and prediction required for understanding and predicting future patterns of …

Phylogenetic comparative methods comprise the general endeavor of using an estimated
phylogenetic tree (or set of trees) to make secondary inferences: about trait evolution …

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 …

Aim Concerns over how global change will influence species distributions, in conjunction
with increased emphasis on understanding niche dynamics in evolutionary and community …

Species enter and persist in local communities because of their ecological fit to local
conditions, and recently, ecologists have moved from measuring diversity as species …

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In this paper, I review the relevance of the niche to biogeography, and what biogeography
may tell us about the niche. The niche is defined as the combination of abiotic and biotic …

To conserve biodiversity, it is necessary to understand how species are distributed and
which aspects of the environment determine distributions. In large parts of the world and for …