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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
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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...
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