A new workflow in R quantifies realized and potential individualized niches from GPS tracking data using mixed-effects ...

Ecological invasions arise when species establish, spread and persist in regions beyond their native ranges. Key to understanding this process is the concept of the ecological niche, defined by the ...

In a new study published in Communications Biology, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology and the University of Giessen show that the adaptation of antlions to their ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers compared ecological niches to identify probable mpox virus (MPXV) reservoir hosts. Study: Identifying the most probable mammal ...

More than four decades ago, field ecologists set out to quantify the diversity of trees on a forested plot on Barro Colorado Island in Panama, one of the most intensively studied tracts of tropical ...

What defines the habitat -- the ecological niche -- of a microorganism? It is a combination of environmental factors such as temperature, moisture, and nutrient content. But the exact contribution of ...

During his recent yearlong sabbatical, Daniel Laughlin led a study that found trees can sustain life in temperatures higher or lower than where they are currently growing. While tree species appear to ...

Three-dimensional depiction of the Periodic Table of Niches. Each box represents a lizard niche (n1-n12). Species pairs from different geographic regions or different evolutionary lineages (clades) ...

This project investigates how nighttime foraging ecology shapes social structure in a focal nocturnal primate species. Using night follows, behavioral observations, and mapping of feeding sites, we ...

New fieldwork across Panama has documented dozens of records for four rarely seen aquatic snakes, including the first ...