A synthesis of transplant experiments and ecological niche models suggests that range limits are often niche limits

Ecology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 710-722

  Lee Yaw, Julie A ^a,b   Kharouba, Heather M ^c   Bontrager, Megan ^a   Mahony, Colin ^a   Csergo, Anna Mária ^d   Noreen, Annika M E ^a   Li, Qin ^a   Schuster, Richard ^a   Angert, Amy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Abiotic constraints; Climate; Dispersal limitation; Fitness; Geographical distribution; Over the edge transplant; Species distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC FACTOR; BOUNDARY DELIMITATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FITNESS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NICHE; PLANT; RANGE EXPANSION; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT DISPERSAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT DISPERSAL;

EID: 84966552646     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12604     Document Type: Review

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