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Wilkes, Martin. "FLNG—a nice niche?" APPEA Journal 55, no. 2 (2015): 408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj14043.

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The LNG industry continues to experience strong growth. After a decade where industry growth outstripped expectations, even without the anticipated growth in LNG imports to the US, the outlook for LNG appears robust. New markets and suppliers are emerging and market dynamics are changing, in particular the marked increase in short-term contracts and spot market trading. LNG developments historically have been land based. Increases in process train capacities have enabled economies of scale to be achieved, helping to mitigate rising costs. As a result of these economies of scale, the resource base required to support developments has also increased. The development of FLNG together with a shift in market patterns presents the chance to fill a market space. Though FLNG has a long way to go before becoming widely accepted as a standard development route. This extended abstract will: Examine how different approaches to FLNG are being taken to fill the space left by traditional land-based LNG solutions. Investigate the similarities and differences between FLNG developments and how the world floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) fleet has developed in the last few decades, and will discuss the implications for FLNG development. Examine how the changes in market dynamics may support the development of FLNG. Outline the potential opportunities and challenges this could present to on- and off- shore producers in Australia. Provide an overview of the possible future of FLNG.
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Kandarakov, Oleg, Alexander Belyavsky, and Ekaterina Semenova. "Bone Marrow Niches of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23, no. 8 (April 18, 2022): 4462. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms23084462.

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The mammalian hematopoietic system is remarkably efficient in meeting an organism’s vital needs, yet is highly sensitive and exquisitely regulated. Much of the organismal control over hematopoiesis comes from the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) by specific microenvironments called niches in bone marrow (BM), where HSCs reside. The experimental studies of the last two decades using the most sophisticated and advanced techniques have provided important data on the identity of the niche cells controlling HSCs functions and some mechanisms underlying niche-HSC interactions. In this review we discuss various aspects of organization and functioning of the HSC cell niche in bone marrow. In particular, we review the anatomy of BM niches, various cell types composing the niche, niches for more differentiated cells, metabolism of HSCs in relation to the niche, niche aging, leukemic transformation of the niche, and the current state of HSC niche modeling in vitro.
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Liu, Chunlong, Christian Wolter, Weiwei Xian, and Jonathan M. Jeschke. "Most invasive species largely conserve their climatic niche." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, no. 38 (September 3, 2020): 23643–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004289117.

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The ecological niche is a key concept for elucidating patterns of species distributions and developing strategies for conserving biodiversity. However, recent times are seeing a widespread debate whether species niches are conserved across space and time (niche conservatism hypothesis). Biological invasions represent a unique opportunity to test this hypothesis in a short time frame at the global scale. We synthesized empirical findings for 434 invasive species from 86 studies to assess whether invasive species conserve their climatic niche between native and introduced ranges. Although the niche conservatism hypothesis was rejected in most studies, highly contrasting conclusions for the same species between and within studies suggest that the dichotomous conclusions of these studies were sensitive to techniques, assessment criteria, or author preferences. We performed a consistent quantitative analysis of the dynamics between native and introduced climatic niches reported by previous studies. Our results show there is very limited niche expansion between native and introduced ranges, and introduced niches occupy a position similar to native niches in the environmental space. These findings support the niche conservatism hypothesis overall. In particular, introduced niches were narrower for terrestrial animals, species introduced more recently, or species with more native occurrences. Niche similarity was lower for aquatic species, species introduced only intentionally or more recently, or species with fewer introduced occurrences. Climatic niche conservatism for invasive species not only increases our confidence in transferring ecological niche models to new ranges but also supports the use of niche models for forecasting species responses to changing climates.
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Johnston, T. A., A. D. Ehrman, G. L. Hamilton, B. K. Nugent, P. A. Cott, and J. M. Gunn. "Plenty of room at the bottom: niche variation and segregation in large-bodied benthivores of boreal lakes." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 76, no. 8 (August 2019): 1411–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2018-0180.

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Realized trophic niches of aquatic consumers are expected to reflect the particular abiotic and biotic conditions of the ecosystems they occupy. We examined patterns in the position, size, and shape of trophic niches of two common benthivorous fishes, white sucker (Catostomus commersonii) and lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis), across boreal lakes using a stable isotope approach. In sympatry, white sucker niche positions reflected greater benthic reliance (higher δ13C) and lower trophic elevation (lower δ15N) compared with lake whitefish, and white sucker niche sizes (dispersion in δ13C–δ15N space) were also larger. Niche sizes of both species increased with maximum depth of lakes. Separation of trophic niche positions of the two species increased with increasing water clarity, but their niche sizes did not increase with increasing separation in their niche positions. White sucker occupied a niche position with slightly greater pelagic reliance and trophic elevation and had smaller trophic niches in the absence than in the presence of lake whitefish. Trophic niches of these benthivores appear to be shaped by both environmental factors and interspecific interactions.
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Figueiredo, Giovanna Corrêa e., Karina Bohrer do Amaral, and Marcos César de Oliveira Santos. "Cetaceans along the southeastern Brazilian coast: occurrence, distribution and niche inference at local scale." PeerJ 8 (October 5, 2020): e10000. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10000.

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It is deemed important to understand cetacean occurrence and distribution to comprehend their ecological roles. The geographical occurrence of species’ niche can be used to better describe their potential distribution. The niche can be defined using environmental variables. Those variables are considered static and not affected by biological activities. The present study goal was to assess the occurrence and distribution of cetaceans along the southeastern Brazilian coast, as well as to define the fundamental and realized niche of each species and to investigate niche overlap at local scale. The environmental requirements for each species were also investigated throughout statistical tests. Sighting data were obtained through oceanographic surveys conducted between 2012 and 2015. The environmental variables available on MARSPEC and the software NicheA were used for the ecological niche modeling. A total of twelve cetacean species were identified and the potential distribution areas of the six commonest ones were defined. Even though the species presented different environmental preferences, most of them had partial overlap among niches and potential distribution areas. The environmental heterogeneity of the study area might support the co-occurrence of different species with different environmental requirements.
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Sun, Bo. "Niches and Sculptures of the Imaginary Realm—Revisiting the Fowan Rock Carvings, Beishan, Dazu." Religions 15, no. 1 (December 28, 2023): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15010050.

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The Fowan Cliff Carvings are a key part of the Dazu Grottoes. Formed in a southern and northern stretch, the 290 individual niches at Fowan were mostly sculpted from the Late Tang to the Southern Song. Previous research by archaeologists and art historians has used typological and iconographic methods to periodize these niches and debate the themes behind particular niche sculptures. This essay employs niche inscriptions in a discussion of typical Fowan niche contents, matching lay feasting activities onto the period background behind their construction. These individual case studies grant an understanding of the overall atmosphere at Fowan through the shared inclinations or connections between niches, also reflecting specific niche sculptures via holistic analysis. This method, repeatedly examining the relationship between the niches and site from the perspective of “venue”, helps us restore a sense of situatedness when facing different eras of Fowan and to understand the choice in statue content, changes in niche content, and the design underlying niche form.
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Hannan, Michael T., Glenn R. Carroll, and László Pólos. "The Organizational Niche." Sociological Theory 21, no. 4 (December 2003): 309–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1467-9558.2003.00192.x.

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Although the concept of niche has been extremely useful in sociological theory and research, some aspects of the concept have not been clearly developed. This article advances a theoretical reconstruction of the concept of niche, with special application to organizations. The proposed formal model unifies several active lines of sociological theory. It also extends the notion of the niche from the realm of behaviors to apply to the rules coding social identities and organizational forms. The reconstruction gives deeper insight into the niche of an organizational population as well as individual organizations. Finally, the model analyzes the (thus far) tacit assumption that niches are convex, examines the implications of convexity for commonly used measures of niche width, and provides a general sociological argument for the predominance of convex niches.
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Cooper, Natalie, Rob P. Freckleton, and Walter Jetz. "Phylogenetic conservatism of environmental niches in mammals." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278, no. 1716 (January 5, 2011): 2384–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2207.

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Phylogenetic niche conservatism is the pattern where close relatives occupy similar niches, whereas distant relatives are more dissimilar. We suggest that niche conservatism will vary across clades in relation to their characteristics. Specifically, we investigate how conservatism of environmental niches varies among mammals according to their latitude, range size, body size and specialization. We use the Brownian rate parameter, σ 2 , to measure the rate of evolution in key variables related to the ecological niche and define the more conserved group as the one with the slower rate of evolution. We find that tropical, small-ranged and specialized mammals have more conserved thermal niches than temperate, large-ranged or generalized mammals. Partitioning niche conservatism into its spatial and phylogenetic components, we find that spatial effects on niche variables are generally greater than phylogenetic effects. This suggests that recent evolution and dispersal have more influence on species' niches than more distant evolutionary events. These results have implications for our understanding of the role of niche conservatism in species richness patterns and for gauging the potential for species to adapt to global change.
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Sillero, Neftalí, Elena Argaña, Cátia Matos, Marc Franch, Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou, and Miguel A. Carretero. "Local Segregation of Realised Niches in Lizards." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 12 (December 21, 2020): 764. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9120764.

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Species can occupy different realised niches when sharing the space with other congeneric species or when living in allopatry. Ecological niche models are powerful tools to analyse species niches and their changes over time and space. Analysing how species’ realised niches shift is paramount in ecology. Here, we examine the ecological realised niche of three species of wall lizards in six study areas: three areas where each species occurs alone; and three areas where they occur together in pairs. We compared the species’ realised niches and how they vary depending on species’ coexistence, by quantifying niche overlap between pairs of species or populations with the R package ecospat. For this, we considered three environmental variables (temperature, humidity, and wind speed) recorded at each lizard re-sighting location. Realised niches were very similar when comparing syntopic species occurring in the same study area. However, realised niches differed when comparing conspecific populations across areas. In each of the three areas of syntopy, the less abundant species shift its realised niche. Our study demonstrates that sympatry may shift species’ realised niche.
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Ramírez-Albores, Jorge E., Gustavo Bizama, Ramiro O. Bustamante, and Ernesto I. Badano. "Niche conservatism in a plant with long invasion history: the case of the Peruvian peppertree (Schinus molle, Anacardiaceae) in Mexico." Plant Ecology and Evolution 153, no. 1 (March 26, 2020): 3–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.5091/plecevo.2020.1562.

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Background and aim – Invasive plants should only colonize habitats meeting the environmental conditions included in their native niches. However, if they invade habitats with novel environmental conditions, this can induce shifts in their niches. This may occur in plants with long invasion histories because they interacted with the environmental conditions of invaded regions over long periods of time. We focused on this issue and evaluated whether the niche of the oldest plant invader reported in Mexico, the Peruvian peppertree, is still conserved after almost 500 years of invasion history. Methods – We compared climatic niches of the species between the native and invaded region. We later used species distribution models (SDM) to visualize the geographical expression of both niches in Mexico. Results – The invasive niche of the Peruvian peppertree is fully nested within the native niche. Although this suggests that the niche is conserved, this also indicates that a large fraction of the native niche is empty in the invaded region. The SDM from the native region indicated that Mexico contains habitats meeting the conditions included in this empty fraction of the native niche and, thus, this invasion should continue expanding. Nevertheless, the SDM calibrated with data from the invaded region indicated that peppertrees have colonized all suitable habitats indicated by its invasive niche and, thus, their populations should no longer expand. Conclusion – Our results suggests that the niche of the Peruvian peppertree is partially conserved in Mexico. This may have occurred because individuals introduced into Mexico constituted a small, nonrepresentative sample of the full niche of the species.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Niche"

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Silva, Helen Rosa da. "Padrões espaciais e temporais na amplitude de nicho climático de vertebrados terrestres." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2015. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5527.

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Understanding how species are distributed across space and what determines where they live is one of the oldest goals in Ecology. The concept of niche is very closely related to this goal. In fact, environmental variables are frequently used to predict the potential distribution of species. Niche amplitude is an important concept which helps us to understand which part of the available environmental space each species occupies, and how much of their niches overlap. Here we used a measure of niche amplitude based on the minimum and maximum tolerances of terrestrial vertebrates (except reptiles) for each variable related to climate. We calculated a single measure of niche amplitude for each species by considering together all chosen environmental variables. We used this number to first investigate the presence of latitudinal gradient in niche amplitude across the study area, which comprised the whole terrestrial globe. There is a significant correlation between niche amplitude and latitude for Old World birds. Second we tried to identify some phylogenetic structure in niche amplitude for birds. For this goal, we calculated the pair-wise niche overlap, and then compared the degree of overlap with pair-wise phylogenetic distances. We found no relationship between niche overlap and phylogenetic distance. We conclude that the absence of phylogenetic signal in niche overlap is due to the high dispersion capability of birds in general. If species have a high geographic range, they consequently have high niche amplitude, and therefore high overlap rates. Finally, we found a clear tendency of positive local spatial autocorrelation in mean niche overlap, as neighbor cells tend to show similar rates of niche overlap between species.
Compreender os fatores que determinam a distribuição das espécies no espaço geográfico é uma das questões mais importantes em ecologia. O conceito de nicho é fortemente relacionado a essa questão. Não por acaso, variáveis ambientais são comumente usadas para inferir a distribuição potencial de espécies. Amplitude de nicho é uma medida importante que nos possibilita saber que proporção do espaço ambiental cada espécie ocupa. Assim, podemos também identificar que proporção do espaço ocupado por cada espécie, seu nicho, é sobreposta pelo nicho das espécies coexistentes. No presente trabalho utilizamos uma medida de amplitude de nicho específica baseada na soma das tolerâncias para cada variável climática utilizada. Utilizamos essa medida para investigar, primeiramente, a presença de estrutura espacial, especificamente gradiente latitudinal, na amplitude de nicho de vertebrados terrestres (exceto répteis), numa escala global. Apenas aves do Velho Mundo apresentaram amplitude de nicho negativamente associada à latitude. Posteriormente, investigamos a presença de estrutura filogenética na amplitude de nicho em Aves, baseados na hipótese de conservação de nicho. Para esse objetivo calculamos a sobreposição de nicho par-a-par e então correlacionamos essa medida com as distâncias filogenéticas. Não houve correlação entre proximidade filogenética e sobreposição de nicho. Tal resultado pode estar relacionado à grande capacidade de dispersão de aves. Se a área de ocupação geográfica é ampla, a amplitude das tolerâncias é em geral alta e consequentemente a sobreposição média entre diferentes espécies. Finalmente houve forte indício de autocorrelação espacial positiva na sobreposição média por célula entre células próximas, indicando que áreas próximas tendem a apresentar espécies com taxas semelhantes de sobreposição de nicho.
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Milne, Margaret Georgina. "Environmental niche evolution and ancestral niche reconstruction." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709832.

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Quantifying the diversity and distribution of the world’s biota in both space and time is a fundamental goal of modern biology, however ecologists also face the added pressure of understanding how species may respond to anthropogenically driven environmental changes. The relationship between species distributions and the environment can be captured in Environmental Niche Models (ENM’s), which create mathematical models linking species occurrences to ecological factors at a specific point in time. Whilst this approach is very useful, it can be improved by the incorporation of phylogenetic data (with estimated species divergence dates) to explore how the environmental niche has changed for a whole clade through evolutionary time. This thesis aims to explore whether niches are conserved over the life history for individual species, and for entire genera through evolutionary time. The research aims to firstly improve the current iteration of the Coleopteran Mutual Climatic Range (MCR) approach by automating the climate envelope creation process; secondly, to determine whether the expression of the realised climate niche has changed for four members of the Staphylinid Olophrum genus through the Quaternary and thirdly, to create a historical bio-geographical model indicating the likely mode of evolution between sister-taxa in the Dytiscidae Hydroporus genus. Lastly, the ancestral climatic niche of the Hydroporus genus is modelled in order to determine any patterns in climate niche evolution. This is achieved by bringing together phylogenetic data, occurrence data and environmental data under a Bayesian analysis framework to reconstruct the values for environmental niche traits at internal nodes in a phylogenetic tree.
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Lima, Alessandra Vallim [UNESP]. "Niche Modelling: a comparison between modelling methods best applied for Cnidaria niche dispersion studies." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/150823.

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Nas ultimas décadas, modelagem de nicho ecológico vem recebendo maior atenção em diversas áreas da biologia devido a evolução dos computadores pessoais e aumento dos dados disponíveis utilizados para a modelagem. Os resultados obtidos podem ser utilizados em ações preventivas, tais quais manejo de espécie e acompanhamento da distribuição de espécies invasoras. Desde o aumento dessa popularidade, diversos algoritmos estão disponíveis e testes estão em andamento para averiguar suas performances em relação a diferentes filos. Invertebrados marinhos, mais especificamente cnidários, apresentam poucos estudos nesse ramo, devendo receber mais atenção nos próximos anos devido ao aumento global das populações de aguas vivas (blooms), e branqueamento em quase todos os recifes de corais. Devido a essa lacuna em informação, este grupo foi escolhido para comparar três algoritmos. Utilizamos o MAXENT, GARP e AquaMaps em suas formas de desktop e os selecionamos baseado em outros estudos comparando algoritmos. Utilizamos diferentes organismos do filo cnidária, Lychnorhiza lucerna, Chrysaora lactea, Phyllorhiza punctata, Tamoya haplonema, Ceriantheomorphe brasiliensis e Mussismilia hispida, para comparar os algoritmos e averiguar qual demonstrou melhor performance. Nossos resultados mostram que o MAXENT superou os outros algoritmos tanto com relação a Área Sob a Curva ROC (AUC), quanto com relação aos mapas de distribuição. O GARP apresentou resultados variados com mapas generalizados e AquaMaps foi o menos confiável. Nossos resultados são similares aqueles encontrados em diversas publicações, significando então, que o MAXENT é o algoritmo mais confiável em se tratando da modelagem de nicho desses organismos.
Recently, ecological niche modelling has been receiving more attention in several areas in biology, due to the evolution of personal computers, and the increasing availability of data used in modelling. The results obtained can be used in preventive actions such as species management and invasive species distribution. Since its increasing popularity, several algorithms are available and undergoing tests regarding their performance towards different phylum. Marine invertebrates, more specifically cnidarians, present few studies on this field, and should receive closer attention in the next years due to worldwide increases in jellyfish population (blooms), and bleaching in almost every known shallow water coral reef. Because of this gap of information, we chose this still poor studied group to compare three algorithms. We used MAXENT, GARP and AquaMaps in its desktop form and selected them based on other studies comparing algorithms. Our aim was to, based on different organisms of the phylum Cnidaria, Lychnorhiza lucerna, Chrysaora lactea, Phyllorhiza punctata, Tamoya haplonema, Ceriantheomorphe brasiliensis and Mussismilia hispida, compare those algorithms and examine which one performed the best. Our results shown that MAXENT outperformed the other algorithms both regarding de Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) and the map distribution. GARP show varying results with generalized maps and AquaMaps was the least accurate of them. Our results are similar to those found in other papers, thus meaning that MAXENT is the most reliable software when it comes to modelling these animals.
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McHugh, Sean W. "Phylogenetic Niche Modeling." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104893.

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Projecting environmental niche models through time is a common goal when studying species response to climatic change. Species distribution models (SDMs) are commonly used to estimate a species' niche from observed patterns of occurrence and environmental predictors. However, a species niche is also shaped by non-environmental factors--including biotic interactions and dispersal barrier—truncating SDM estimates. Though truncated SDMs may accurately predict present-day species niche, projections through time are often biased by environmental condition change. Modeling niche in a phylogenetic framework leverages a clade's shared evolutionary history to pull species estimates closer towards phylogenetic conserved values and farther away from species specific biases. We propose a new Bayesian model of phylogenetic niche implemented in R. Under our model, species SDM parameters are transformed into biologically interpretable continuous parameters of environmental niche optimum, breadth, and tolerance evolving under multivariate Brownian motion random walk. Through simulation analyses, we demonstrated model accuracy and precision that improved as phylogeny size increased. We also demonstrated our model on a clade of eastern United States Plethodontid salamanders by accurately estimating species niche, even when no occurrence data is present. Our model demonstrates a novel framework where niche changes can be studied forwards and backwards through time to understand ancestral ranges, patterns of environmental specialization, and niche in data deficient species.
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As many species face increasing pressure in a changing climate, it is crucial to understand the set of environmental conditions that shape species' ranges--known as the environmental niche--to guide conservation and land management practices. Species distribution models (SDMs) are common tools that are used to model species' environmental niche. These models treat a species' probability of occurrence as a function of environmental conditions. SDM niche estimates can predict a species' range given climate data, paleoclimate, or projections of future climate change to estimate species range shifts from the past to the future. However, SDM estimates are often biased by non-environmental factors shaping a species' range including competitive divergence or dispersal barriers. Biased SDM estimates can result in range predictions that get worse as we extrapolate beyond the observed climatic conditions. One way to overcome these biases is by leveraging the shared evolutionary history amongst related species to "fill in the gaps". Species that are more closely phylogenetically related often have more similar or "conserved" environmental niches. By estimating environmental niche over all species in a clade jointly, we can leverage niche conservatism to produce more biologically realistic estimates of niche. However, currently a methodological gap exists between SDMs estimates and macroevolutionary models, prohibiting them from being estimated jointly. We propose a novel model of evolutionary niche called PhyNE (Phylogenetic Niche Evolution), where biologically realistic environmental niches are fit across a set of species with occurrence data, while simultaneously fitting and leveraging a model of evolution across a portion of the tree of life. We evaluated model accuracy, bias, and precision through simulation analyses. Accuracy and precision increased with larger phylogeny size and effectively estimated model parameters. We then applied PhyNE to Plethodontid salamanders from Eastern North America. This ecologically-important and diverse group of lungless salamanders require cold and wet conditions and have distributions that are strongly affected by climatic conditions. Species within the family vary greatly in distribution, with some species being wide ranging generalists, while others are hyper-endemics that inhabit specific mountains in the Southern Appalachians with restricted thermal and hydric conditions. We fit PhyNE to occurrence data for these species and their associated average annual precipitation and temperature data. We identified no correlations between species environmental preference and specialization. Pattern of preference and specialization varied among Plethodontid species groups, with more aquatic species possessing a broader environmental niche, likely due to the aquatic microclimate facilitating occurrence in a wider range of conditions. We demonstrated the effectiveness of PhyNE's evolutionarily-informed estimates of environmental niche, even when species' occurrence data is limited or even absent. PhyNE establishes a proof-of-concept framework for a new class of approaches for studying niche evolution, including improved methods for estimating niche for data-deficient species, historical reconstructions, future predictions under climate change, and evaluation of niche evolutionary processes across the tree of life. Our approach establishes a framework for leveraging the rapidly growing availability of biodiversity data and molecular phylogenies to make robust eco-evolutionary predictions and assessments of species' niche and distributions in a rapidly changing world.
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Gurgel, Priscila Cabral Silveira. "Reproductive modes are associated to climatic niche evolution in treefrogs (anura: hylidae)." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2016. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/6263.

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The similarity of life-history traits among closely related species is a well-known pattern in evolutionary biology. Thus, closely related species tend to be more akin to each other than to distantly related ones. The propensity of closely related species to conserve climatic niche features over macroevolutionary time can be defined as climatic niche conservatism. Recent studies have shown the importance of environmental variables with regards to the diversity and distribution of anurans with differences in their reproductive traits under an evolutionary perspective. In this work, using frog species in the Hylidae family, we tested the hypothesis that species more independent from main bodies of water for reproduction are restricted to areas with higher temperature and precipitation means. We also investigated the evolution of climatic niche features of species with different degrees of dependence on water for reproduction. Our results corroborate the first hypothesis and show that terrestrial egg-laying species, in the Hylinae subfamily, have more conserved climatic niche position when compared to Hylinae species that deposits their eggs and tadpoles in main water bodies. Thus, we suggest that reproductive modes are associated with variation in the evolution of climatic niches of frogs.
A similaridade entre atributos de espécies aparentadas é um padrão tradicional reconhecido em biologia evolutiva. Espécies aparentadas tendem ser mais similares entre si do que com espécies não aparentadas. A tendência de espécies aparentadas conservar as características de seu nicho ao longo do tempo macroevolutivo pode ser definido como conservação filogenética de nicho. Estudos recentes tem mostrado a importância das variáveis climáticas na distribuição de anfíbios anuros com diferentes modos reprodutivos utilizando uma abordagem evolutiva. Neste trabalho, usando as espécies de pererecas da família Hylidae, testamos a hipótese de que espécies menos dependentes dos corpos d'água para reprodução ocorrem em áreas mais quentes e mais úmidas. Além disso, investigamos como foi a evolução dos atributos do nicho climático (posição e amplitude) de espécies, da subfamília Hylinae, com diferentes níveis de dependência dos corpos d'água para reprodução. Nossos resultados corroboram a primeira hipótese e mostram que, espécies da subfamília Hylinae que depositam seus ovos fora da água estão restritas a lugares mais quentes e mais úmidos. Além disso, tais espécies tem o nicho climático mais conservado do que espécies que depositam tanto ovos como girinos em corpos d'água principais. Portanto, sugerimos que os diferentes modos reprodutivos refletem em diferenças na evolução do nicho climático nas espécies da subfamília Hylinae.
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Fernandes, Ubirajara Lima. "Ecologia trÃfica de quatro espÃcies de peixes de um rio no semiÃrido, Pentecoste - CearÃ." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2011. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7965.

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A maioria dos rios do semiÃrido apresentam regimes irregulares e intermitentes, com um sà perÃodo anual de escoamento na chegada das precipitaÃÃes pluviomÃtricas que caracterizam o perÃodo chuvoso. Nesses rios, as perturbaÃÃes hidrolÃgicas naturais exercem forte influÃncia na organizaÃÃo do sistema, sendo as interaÃÃes alimentares complexas e modificadas pela sazonalidade e pela produtividade do sistema. A dieta de peixes pode variar de acordo com a disponibilidade de recursos alimentares de origem autÃctone ou alÃctone, bem como em resposta à variaÃÃo sazonal. A hipÃtese do presente estudo à de que em um rio do semiÃrido as espÃcies de peixes herbÃvoras/ onÃvoras apresentam partilha de recursos trÃficos. O objetivo foi determinar a partilha de recursos trÃficos a partir da dieta de quatro espÃcies de peixes no rio Curu. As coletas foram realizadas em um trecho do rio Curu (Pentecoste, CearÃ), no perÃodo chuvoso de 2010. Foi analisado o conteÃdo estomacal de 197 indivÃduos das seguintes espÃcies: Astyanax bimaculatus (27), Astyanax fasciatus (79), Poecilia vivipara (90) e Hypostomus jaguribensis (1), pelo mÃtodo volumÃtrico e frequÃncia de ocorrÃncia, para o cÃlculo do Ãndice alimentar (IAi). Com os dados morfomÃtricos foi obtido o Quociente Intestinal (QI). A amplitude de nicho foi estimada atravÃs do Ãndice de Levins e a sobreposiÃÃo trÃfica atravÃs do Ãndice de Pianka. PadrÃes de sobreposiÃÃo de nicho trÃfico foram calculados e estatisticamente testados contra um modelo nulo, atravÃs dos algoritmos de randomizaÃÃo RA3 e RA4. A dieta de A. bimaculatus foi constituÃda por 13 itens, e a de A. fasciatus constituÃda por 15, com preferÃncia alimentar pela alga filamentosa Spirogyra em ambas as espÃcies, sendo a importÃncia alimentar de 89,34% para A. bimaculatus e 96,86% A. fasciatus. A dieta de P. vivipara foi constituÃda por 60 itens, com maior importÃncia para as algas diatomÃceas (28,82%), clorofÃceas (23,17%) e cianofÃceas (5,2%), tendo as clorofÃceas Spirogyra e Closterium, maior importÃncia alimentar com 12,89% e 8,85%, respectivamente e fragmentos de insetos aquÃticos com 39,18%. A dieta de H. jaguribensis esteve constituÃda por 42 itens alimentares, com maior importÃncia para Spirogyra com 23,42%, e Compsopogon com 19%. O grupo diatomÃcea apresentou maior nÃmero de itens na dieta com 21 tÃxons e 16,38% de IAi, seguido pelo item alimentar detrito com 27,72% de importÃncia. De acordo com o quociente intestinal A. bimaculatus e A. fasciatus apresentam intestino caracterÃstico de carnÃvoro/onÃvoro e P. vivipara de herbÃvoro. A anÃlise de variÃncia (ANOVA) para os valores mÃdios do quociente intestinal dos peixes analisados foi significativa com F= 3,50, df = 2, p< 0,05. A largura de nicho foi maior em P. vivipara com 1.32, seguido por A. bimaculatus com 0,78 e A. fasciatus com 0,426. Maior sobreposiÃÃo de nicho ocorreu entre as espÃcies de Astyanax com o valor de 0,98. A anÃlise dos modelos nulos realizados pelos itens totais e os itens agrupados indicou que os valores observados foram sempre maiores do que os esperados para a matriz RA3 e RA4. A variÃncia mÃdia observada tambÃm foi maior do que a simulada. De acordo com a dieta das quatro espÃcies analisadas, destacam a importÃncia de itens de origem autÃctone, principalmente as algas. Os modelos nulos indicam que as espÃcies de peixes herbÃvoras/onÃvoras apresentam partilha de recursos trÃficos, ou seja, a competiÃÃo nÃo à o agente estruturador dessa comunidade.
The semiarid rivers present two patterns: the intermittent and the irregular one, with a single flowing off period per year, during the rainy season. In these rivers, the natural hydrological disturb acts as an important factor driving the organization of the system, in which feeding interactions are complex and modified by seasonality and system productiveness. Fishes often feed on autochthonous or allochthonous resources, with their diets varying according to the with seasonal variation of food availability. The hypothesis of this the present study is that in the semiarid river herbivorous/onivorous fish species present trophic resources partitioning. The major aim of this study the present investigation is was to determine the trophic resources partitioning for four species of fishes at in the Curu River. Field work collections were carried out throughout the rainy season, at the Curu River, in Pentecoste city town, in Cearà state. The stomach content of 197 individuals of the species Astyanax bimaculatus (27), Astyanax fasciatus (79), Poecilia vivipara (90) e Hypostomus jaguribensis (1) was analyzed through the volumetric method in order to obtain for the frequency of each feeding item, so that the Index of Alimentary Importance (IAi) could have been measured. The morphometric data were used to obtain the intestinal quotient (IQ), the niche breadth estimated for the Levinsâ index and the trophic overlap for the Piankaâs index. Patterns of trophic niche overlap were calculated and statistically tested against a null model using the randomization algorithms RA3 and RA4. A. bimaculatus and A. fasciatus fed on 13 and 15 items, respectively. Both species presented feeding preferences for the filamentous algae Spirogyra sp., encompassing 89.34% and 96.86% of their diets, respectively. Poecilia viviparaâs diet comprised 60 items, mainly made up of algae (Bacillariophyta - 28.82%, Chlorophyta - 23.17% and Cyanophyta â 5.2%). Amongst the âgreen algaeâ, Spirogyra sp. (12.89%) and the Closterium sp. (8.85%) were the chief principal items eaten. Aquatic insects (39.18%) made up the second most important item. A total of 42 items compounded the diet of H. jaguribensis, which detritus (27,72%), the algae Spyrogira sp. (23.42%) and Compsopogon sp. (19%) were the foremost most important items. The diatom group comprised the most abundant item, with 21 taxa and 16.38% of IAi. According to the intestinal quotient, A. bimaculatus e A. fasciatus showed a typical carnivorous/omnivorous intestine, whereas P. vivipara showed a herbivorous one. The analysis of variance shows that the intestinal quotient varied among species (F = 3.50; d.f = 2; p < 0.05). The niche breadth was greater for P. vivipara (1.32), followed by A. bimaculatus (0.78) and A. fasciatus (0.426). The higher niche overlap occurred within the Astyanax species (0.98). The null model analysis carried out for the total and clustered grouped items indicated that the observed values were always higher than the expected ones for the RA3 and RA4 matrices. In addition, the mean observed variance was higher than the simulated one. The four studied fish species fed mainly on autochthonous items, chiefly on algae. The null models demonstrated that there is a resource partitioning amongst these herbivorous/omnivorous fish species, where competition seems not to be the structuring agent.
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Messias, Patrícia. "Delimitação de espécies do complexo Aspidosperma pyrifolium Mart. & Zucc. (Apocynaceae)." Botucatu, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/182518.

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Resumo: Aspidosperma pyrifolium Mart. & Zucc. é uma espécie com distribuição ampla e disjunta, variação morfológica e taxonomia complexa. Neste estudo é tratada como um complexo de espécies, e utilizada como modelo para delimitação de espécies através de múltiplos critérios operacionais (genéticos, morfológicos e ecológicos). Consideramos que espécies são segmentos de linhagens de uma metapopulação evoluindo separadamente, pois este é um conceito universal que diminuiu as visões conflitantes do que é considerado espécie. Realizamos análises filogenéticas com dados concatenados (ITS e rpl32-trnL) e de coalescência para testar o monofiletismo do complexo e seus grupos. Desenvolvemos marcadores microssatélites polimórficos para A. pyrifolium usados na avaliação da diversidade genética e estruturação de cinco populações naturais. Analisamos a morfologia através de morfometria, incluindo características quantitativas, tanto vegetativas quanto reprodutivas. As análises ecológicas, incluíram modelagem e testes de similaridade de nicho ecológico. Nossos resultados recuperaram o complexo A. pyrifolium como monofilético, com 3 subclados relacionados a regiões geográficas e vegetações específicas, resultados também corroborados na árvore de espécies. O clado 1 ocorre na Caatinga no Nordeste do Brasil, o clado 2 nas manchas de Floresta Estacional na região Centro-Oeste no Brasil e clado 3 na vegetação chaqueana no Mato grosso do Sul, Paraguai e Bolívia. Todas as análises de estrutura populaciona... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
Abstract: Aspidosperma pyrifolium Mart. & Zucc. is a species with wide distribution and disjunct, morphological variation and complex taxonomy. In this study, we treated it as a species complex, and used as a model for species delimitation using multiple operational criteria (genetic, morphological and ecological). We consider species as segments of separately evolving metapopulation lineages, since this is a universal concept that diminished the conflicting visions of what is considered species. For this, we performed phylogenetic with concatenated data (ITS and rpl32-trnL) and coalescence analyzes to test the monophyly of the complex and its groups. We developed polymorphic microsatellites for complex A. pyrifolium for evaluated the genetic diversity and structure of five natural population. We analyzed morphology through morphometry, including quantitative characteristics, both vegetative and reproductive. The ecological analyzes included modeling and testing of ecological niche similarity. Our results recovered Aspidosperma pyrifolium complex as monophyletic, with 3 subclades related to geographic regions and specific vegetation, results also corroborated in the species tree. Clade 1 occurs in the Caatinga in Northeast Brazil, clade 2 in the Seasonal Forest patches in the Center-West region of Brazil and clade 3 in the Chaqueana vegetation in Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraguay and Bolivia. All analyzes of population structure suggested the formation of two genetic groups, one with the po... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
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Moonlight, Peter Watson. "Linking speciation and the niche : taxonomy, phylogeny and niche evolution in neotropical Begonia." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8397/.

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Begonia L. is one of the ten largest plant genera with >1,830 currently accepted species distributed throughout the tropical Americas, Africa and Asia. This exceptional diversity offers the opportunity to study the processes underlying recent and rapid radiations, including the theory of adaptive radiations, but also poses major challenges. Methods to test adaptive radiation theory require sufficient occurrence data to produce species distribution models for the majority of species in a group. In many groups, including Andean, Central American and Mexican Begonia, this criterion is not met. The availability of specimen data on GBIF for species distribution modelling in vascular plants as a whole was assessed. The potential contribution of databased and freely available but indetermined or non-georeferenced specimens to the field of species distribution modelling was estimated. More than half of vascular plant species are currently unavailable for species distribution modelling. Our results indicate 22% of currently unavailable species could be modelled with already available herbarium data that is not yet georeferenced or determined to species. We argue that a greater focus on georeferencing and identification skills are vital if herbaria are to contribute fully to the growing field of species distribution modelling. We highlight those families and geographic regions that would most benefit from this approach and discuss the historical factors have influenced differences among regions. Another prerequisite for species distribution modelling is a stable species level taxonomy. In preparation for investigation involving SDM’s in Begonia, five taxonomic papers are presented, including revised species concepts, distribution data suitable for use in species distribution models, seven new species and a new section of Begonia. Three plastid markers for 574 species and 809 accessions of Begonia were used to produce the largest, most representative phylogeny of Begonia published to date. An updated sectional classification of the genus is provided. The sections of Begonia are used frequently as analogues to genera in other families but, despite their taxonomic utility, few of the current sections have been examined in the light of molecular phylogenetic analyses. The relationships among some species and sections are poorly resolved, but many sections and deeper nodes receive strong support. We recognise 77 sections of Begonia including four new sections: Astrotricha, Jackia, Kollmannia, and Stellanthera; five sections are reinstated from synonymy: Australes, Exalabegonia, Latistigma, Pereira and Poecilia; and four sections are newly synonymised. The new sectional classification is discussed with reference to identifying characters and previous classifications. Central to the theory of an adaptive radiation is that the majority of speciation events are adaptive, implying speciation driven by adaptation to different environments and resulting in niche shifts. Species in an adaptive radiation should display distinct ecological niches and environmental disparity across the group’s phylogeny should best fit a kappa ‘niche-shift’ or ‘speciational’ model of character evolution. These characteristics were tested in two clades of Neotropical Begonia. Species were compared through the comparison of their distributions in environmental space calculated from species distribution models. The fit of four models of environmental evolution (a kappa ‘niche-shift’ model, a Brownian motion model, an early-burst model, and a white noise model) to the observed niche disparity in the group were assessed using the Akaike Information Criterion Patterns of ecological diversification in the two clades of Begonia examined strongly diverge from those predicted by an adaptive model, and we conclude Begonia is not an adaptive radiation with respects to climatic niche. Ecological disparity within Begonia clades best fits the predictions of a Brownian model of niche evolution. The characteristics of a Brownian model include constant niche evolution over the phylogeny, no increases in niche evolution during speciation, and independent niche evolution in sister lineages. This is incompatible with the predictions of an adaptive radiation. We suggest the remarkable diversity of the genus has developed through geographic speciation, and subsequent adaptation to local environments. This phenomenon may be widespread among plant radiations in topographically- and environmentally-heterogeneous areas, and a re-evaluation of putative adaptive radiations throughout the world’s montane regions may be necessary.
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Lima, Alessandra Vallim. "Niche Modelling : a comparison between modelling methods best applied for Cnidaria niche dispersion studies /." São Vicente, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/150823.

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Abstract: Recently, ecological niche modelling has been receiving more attention in several areas in biology, due to the evolution of personal computers, and the increasing availability of data used in modelling. The results obtained can be used in preventive actions such as species management and invasive species distribution. Since its increasing popularity, several algorithms are available and undergoing tests regarding their performance towards different phylum. Marine invertebrates, more specifically cnidarians, present few studies on this field, and should receive closer attention in the next years due to worldwide increases in jellyfish population (blooms), and bleaching in almost every known shallow water coral reef. Because of this gap of information, we chose this still poor studied group to compare three algorithms. We used MAXENT, GARP and AquaMaps in its desktop form and selected them based on other studies comparing algorithms. Our aim was to, based on different organisms of the phylum Cnidaria, Lychnorhiza lucerna, Chrysaora lactea, Phyllorhiza punctata, Tamoya haplonema, Ceriantheomorphe brasiliensis and Mussismilia hispida, compare those algorithms and examine which one performed the best. Our results shown that MAXENT outperformed the other algorithms both regarding de Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) and the map distribution. GARP show varying results with generalized maps and AquaMaps was the least accurate of them. Our results are similar to those found in other pape... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)
Resumo: Nas ultimas décadas, modelagem de nicho ecológico vem recebendo maior atenção em diversas áreas da biologia devido a evolução dos computadores pessoais e aumento dos dados disponíveis utilizados para a modelagem. Os resultados obtidos podem ser utilizados em ações preventivas, tais quais manejo de espécie e acompanhamento da distribuição de espécies invasoras. Desde o aumento dessa popularidade, diversos algoritmos estão disponíveis e testes estão em andamento para averiguar suas performances em relação a diferentes filos. Invertebrados marinhos, mais especificamente cnidários, apresentam poucos estudos nesse ramo, devendo receber mais atenção nos próximos anos devido ao aumento global das populações de aguas vivas (blooms), e branqueamento em quase todos os recifes de corais. Devido a essa lacuna em informação, este grupo foi escolhido para comparar três algoritmos. Utilizamos o MAXENT, GARP e AquaMaps em suas formas de desktop e os selecionamos baseado em outros estudos comparando algoritmos. Utilizamos diferentes organismos do filo cnidária, Lychnorhiza lucerna, Chrysaora lactea, Phyllorhiza punctata, Tamoya haplonema, Ceriantheomorphe brasiliensis e Mussismilia hispida, para comparar os algoritmos e averiguar qual demonstrou melhor performance. Nossos resultados mostram que o MAXENT superou os outros algoritmos tanto com relação a Área Sob a Curva ROC (AUC), quanto com relação aos mapas de distribuição. O GARP apresentou resultados variados com mapas generalizados e AquaM... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo)
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Russell, Vanessa. "Identifying Environmental Factors Driving Differences in Climatic Niche Overlap in Peromyscus Mice." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1565722438217428.

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Books on the topic "Niche"

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Niche. Calgary, Alberta: Frontenac House Ltd., 2015.

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Naz, M. Uper niche. Lahore: Al-Faraz, 2002.

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Cooper, Andrew F., ed. Niche Diplomacy. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25902-1.

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Ltd, Mintel International Group, ed. Niche products. London: Mintel International, 1996.

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Phil, Frank, ed. Which niche? Holbrook, MA: Bob Adams, 1989.

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Naz, Min. Uper niche. Lahore: Al-faraz, 2002.

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Valibhai, Mankad Mohammad. Mandarvruksha niche. Ahmedabad: Gurjar, 1990.

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Naz, Meena. Uper niche. Lahore: Al-faraz, 2002.

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Nagasawa, Takashi, ed. Bone Marrow Niche. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86016-5.

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Turksen, Kursad, ed. Stem Cell Niche. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-508-8.

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Capinera, John L., Marjorie A. Hoy, Paul W. Paré, Mohamed A. Farag, John T. Trumble, Murray B. Isman, Byron J. Adams, et al. "Niche." In Encyclopedia of Entomology, 2609. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_2215.

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Stotz, Karola, and Darcia Narvaez. "Niche." In Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 3242–45. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1554.

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Tedesco, Salvatore. "Niche." In Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis, 355–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51324-5_83.

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Stotz, Karola, and Darcia Narvaez. "Niche." In Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 1–4. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1554-1.

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Cooper, Andrew F. "Niche Diplomacy: A Conceptual Overview." In Niche Diplomacy, 1–24. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25902-1_1.

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Müftüler, Meltem, and Müberra Yüksel. "Turkey: A Middle Power in the New Order." In Niche Diplomacy, 184–96. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25902-1_10.

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Vale, Peter. "South Africa: Understanding the Upstairs and the Downstairs." In Niche Diplomacy, 197–214. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25902-1_11.

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Higgott, Richard. "Issues, Institutions and Middle-Power Diplomacy: Action and Agendas in the Post-Cold War Era." In Niche Diplomacy, 25–45. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25902-1_2.

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Henrikson, Alan K. "Middle Powers as Managers: International Mediation within, across, and outside Institutions." In Niche Diplomacy, 46–72. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25902-1_3.

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Hayes, Geoffrey. "Canada as a Middle Power: The Case of Peacekeeping." In Niche Diplomacy, 73–89. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25902-1_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Niche"

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Barnett, Lisa. "Niche by niche." In the 23rd annual ACM SIGUCCS conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/219894.222996.

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Darban, Mehdi. "How Niche Is Niche? Measuring Individuals’ Perception of Technology Niche." In Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24251/hicss.2019.614.

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"Analysis of bike-sharing niche based on Niche theory." In 2018 4th International Conference on Innovative Development of E-commerce and Logistics. Clausius Scientific Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/icidel.2018.046.

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Bergman, Douglas, John Krizmanic, K. Nakai, Y. Omura, and Yoshiki Tsunesada. "First Results from NICHE and the NICHE-TALE Hybrid Detector." In 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference. Trieste, Italy: Sissa Medialab, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/1.358.0189.

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Omura, Yugo, Kei Nakai, Yoshiki Tsunesada, Douglas R Bergman, and John F Krizmanic. "NICHE detector and operations." In 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference. Trieste, Italy: Sissa Medialab, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/1.358.0379.

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Scanlan, David A. "The structured flowchart niche." In the 1988 ACM sixteenth annual conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/322609.323168.

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Zhu, Haiyi, Jilin Chen, Tara Matthews, Aditya Pal, Hernan Badenes, and Robert E. Kraut. "Selecting an effective niche." In CHI '14: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557348.

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Braiterman, Jared. "Session details: Niche experience." In DUX07: Designing the User Experience. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3247049.

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Liang, Jingjing, Qin Wang, Wenxing Xu, Zisen Gao, Zheng Yan, and Fengling Yu. "Improved Niche GA for FJSP." In 2019 IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ccis48116.2019.9073748.

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Lonsdale, Deryle. "A niche at the nexus." In the ACL-02 Workshop. Morristown, NJ, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1118108.1118115.

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Reports on the topic "Niche"

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Welter, Taya. Niche Television Content. Portland State University Library, January 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/honors.246.

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Honeyman, Mark S., R. S. Pirog, and G. Huber. The Pork Niche Market Phenomenon. Ames (Iowa): Iowa State University, January 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/ans_air-180814-622.

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Lammers, Peter J., Mark S. Honeyman, and David R. Stender. The Niche Pork Production Handbook. Ames (Iowa): Iowa State University, January 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/ans_air-180814-747.

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Neiman, Brent, and Joseph Vavra. The Rise of Niche Consumption. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w26134.

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Lammers, Peter J., and Mark S. Honeyman. Teaching Livestock Production for Niche Markets. Ames (Iowa): Iowa State University, January 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/ans_air-180814-995.

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S. Goodin. CROSS DRIFT ALCOVE/NICHE UTILITIES ANALYSIS. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), July 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/861911.

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Stender, David, James B. Kliebenstein, Richard Ness, John W. Mabry, Gary Huber, and Mark S. Honeyman. Efficiency of Niche Pork Production in 2008. Ames (Iowa): Iowa State University, January 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/ans_air-180814-712.

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Stender, David, James B. Kliebenstein, Richard Ness, John W. Mabry, Gary Huber, and Mark S. Honeyman. Efficiency of Niche Pork Production in 2007. Ames (Iowa): Iowa State University, January 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/ans_air-180814-780.

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Stender, David, James B. Kliebenstein, Gary Huber, John W. Mabry, and Mark S. Honeyman. Efficiency of Niche Pork Production in 2006. Ames (Iowa): Iowa State University, January 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.31274/ans_air-180814-811.

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J.W. Keifer. ECRB ALCOVE AND NICHE GROUND SUPPORT ANALYSIS. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), May 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/862032.

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