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- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2005 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
- ISSN
- 0066-4162
- DOI
- 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.36.102803.095431
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
▪ 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.
Journal
Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics – Annual Reviews
Published: Dec 15, 2005