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Do ecological niche model predictions reflect the adaptive landscape of species?: a test using Myristica malabarica Lam., an endemic tree in the Western Ghats, India.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Nagaraju Shivaprakash K, Gudasalamani Ravikanth, Barve Narayani, Ghazoul Jaboury, Narayanagowda Ganeshaiah Kotiganahalli, Ramanan Uma Shaanker
Abstract excerpt
Ecological niche models (ENM) have become a popular tool to define and predict the "ecological niche" of a species. An implicit assumption of the ENMs is that the predicted ecological niche of a species actually reflects the adaptive landscape of the species. Thus in sites predicted to be highly suitable, species would have maximum fitness compared to in sites predicted to be poorly suitable. As yet there are...
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