Global analysis of the influence of environmental variables to explain ecological niches and realized thermal niche boundaries of sea snakes.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the factors affecting species distributions is a central topic in ecology and biogeography. However, most research on this topic has focused on species inhabiting terrestrial environments. At broad scales, abiotic variables consistently serve as primary determinants of species' distributions. In this study, we investigated the explanatory power of different abiotic variables in determining the distribution patterns of sea snakes on a global scale. Additionally, as the boundaries of realized thermal niches have significant implications for the ecology of species and their geographic distributions, we evaluated the asymmetry of realized thermal limits (i.e., differences in variances between the upper and lower limits of the realized thermal niche). We obtained 10 marine environ

SUBMITTER: Patron-Rivero C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11620380 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature