The species chromatogram, a new graphical method to represent, characterize, and compare the ecological niches of different species.

ABSTRACT: The ecological niche sensu Hutchinson is defined as the set of environmental conditions allowing a species to grow, maintain, and reproduce. This conception of the niche, which is assimilated to a p-dimensional hypervolume, with p representing all environmental variables, has been widely applied in ecology. However, displaying the niche hypervolume has proved challenging when more than three environmental dimensions are considered simultaneously. We propose a simple method (implemented in the specieschrom R package) that displays the full multidimensionality of the ecological niche of a species into a two-dimensional space by means of a graphic we call species chromatogram. This method gives a graphical summary of the niche by representing together abundance gra

SUBMITTER: Kleparski L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9006236 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature