Sentences with phrase «ecological niche modelling»

Ecological niche modelling of king penguins in the Southern Ocean, validated with population genomics and palaeodemography data, is used to reconstruct past range shifts and identify future vulnerable areas and potential refugia under climate change.

Several properties of ecological niche modelling in its usual application (i.e., predicting species» geographical ranges) are critically assessed, and some of these problems also apply here.

So Lozier and his colleagues decided to apply ecological niche modelling to an obviously false data set — Sasquatch sightings.

The latest technique for making these predictions is so - called ecological niche modelling, in which researchers log the locations of known species sightings, then gather environmental data for those places to define the ecological limits of the species» range.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

«The point of the paper is really well taken,» says Dan Warren, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of California at Davis who is an expert in ecological niche models.

He collaborated on the article «Maximum Entropy - Based Ecological Niche Model and Bio-Climatic Determinants of Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) Niche» with faculty from Kansas State University's entomology and geography departments as well as other experts in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Ecological niche models supported inference of drastic changes in the extent of its breeding range over the last glacial — interglacial cycle.

Not exact matches

This paleo climatic data and the distribution of archaeological sites associated with the HP, as well of that of the Still Bay tradition, which existed in the same environments about 5,000 years before (76,000 to 71,000 years ago), enabled the researchers to model the emergence of these traditions with two predictive algorithms that permitted them to reconstruct the ecological niche associated with each tradition and determine whether these niches differed significantly through time.

Inclusion of paleontological data into the modeling of ecological niches of living species might show that many of them could live under very different conditions than today, that their ecological niche is much bigger as assumed.

Given no better models or reasoning, we can only assume that the new ecological niche will create new biomass opportunities (which as I've said earlier, is only a one - time reduction in CO2) at the expense of the biomass currently exploiting the current niche.