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Niche Conservatism: Integrating Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation Biology

Wiens, John J., Graham, Catherine H.·2005·Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

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▪ Abstract Niche conservatism is the tendency of species to retain ancestral ecological characteristics. In the recent literature, a debate has emerged as to whether niches are conserved. We suggest that simply testing whether niches are conserved is not by itself particularly helpful or interesting and that a more useful focus is on the patterns that niche conservatism may (or may not) create. We focus specifically on how niche conservatism in climatic tolerances may limit geographic range expansion and how this one type of niche conservatism may be important in (a) allopatric speciation, (b) historical biogeography, (c) patterns of species richness, (d) community structure, (e) the spread of invasive, human-introduced species, (f) responses of species to global climate change, and (g) human history, from 13,000 years ago to the present. We describe how these effects of niche conservatism can be examined with new tools for ecological niche modeling.

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Authors
Wiens, J. J., & Graham, C. H.
Venue
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Published
2005-12-01
Volume
36
Issue
1
Pages
519-539
ISSN
  • 1543-592X (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2069
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W2113375225
Cited by
2,615
References
3
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journal article
Language
en
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