Tabela de conteúdos
Nicho, Competição e Estutura de Comunidades
Leituras
Introdutórias
- Schoener, T.W. Ecological niche. Cap. I.1, The Princeton Guide to Ecology.
Para discussão
- Connell J.H. 1961. The influence of interspecific competition and other factors on the distribution of the barnacle Chthamalus stellatus. Ecology 42(4): 710-723.
- Levine, J.M. & HilleRisLambers, J., 2009. The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity. Nature, 461(7261): 254-259. <wrap important> A seção Online Methods (apenas no site da revista) e o material suplementar deste artigo ajudam muito a compreender os métodos.</wrap>
Sobre os(as) autores(as)
Joseph Connell
- Seu relato sobre o artigo de 1961, da coleção Citation classics.
Jonathan Levine
Janneke Hille Ris Lambers
Material Suplementar
- A referência básica sobre nichos: Jonathan M. Chase and Mathew A. Leibold, 2003. Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches. Chicago University Press.
- O fantasma da competição passada: J.H. Connell, Diversity and the coevolution of competitors, or the ghost of competition past. Oikos 35 (1980), pp. 131–138.
- Grinnell, Joseph. 1917. The niche-relationships of the California Thrasher. The Auk 34:427-433.
- Odling-Smee, F.J., Laland, K.N. and Feldman, M.W., 2003. Niche construction: the neglected process in evolution (No. 37). Princeton University Press. . Veja também o site dos autores da idéia (http://www.nicheconstruction.com/, com vários links interessantes.
- Biogeography, Changing Climate and Niche Evolution Sackler Colloquium. PNAS vol. 106, suplemento. Série de artigos sobre evolução de nichos e sua relação com distribuições geográficas.
- Cooper, G., 1993. The competition controversy in community ecology. Biology and Philosophy, 8: 359-384. Um bom histórico e análise, por um filósofo da ciência.
- Hoogenboom M.O., Connolly, S.R. 2009. Defining fundamental niche dimensions of corals: synergistic effects of colony size, light, and flow. Ecology 90(3):767-780. Um exemplo do quão detalhado e complexo pode ser medir o nicho fundamental.
- Wilson, W.G., Lundberg, P., Vazquez, D.P., Shurin, J.B., Smith, M.D., Langford, W., Gross, K.L. and Mittelbach, G.G., 2003. Biodiversity and species interactions: extending Lotka–Volterra community theory. Ecology Letters, 6(10): 944-952.
- Tansley, A. G. 1917. On competition between Galium saxatile L.(G. hercynicum Weig.) and Galium sylvestre Poll.(G. asperum Schreb.) on different types of soil. The Journal of Ecology, 173-179. Um artigo clássico com experimentos para testar exclusão competitiva.
- Tilman, D., 1982. Resource competition and community structure. Princeton University Press. A referência clássica para modelos mecanísticos de competição (com recurso explícito).
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
- Hutchinson, G.E. 1957. Concluding remarks. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 22: 415–427.
- Hutchinson, G.E. 1959. Homage to Santa Rosalia or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals? The American Naturalist 93:145-159.
- Uma crítica feroz e datada: Lewin, R. 1983. Santa Rosalia was a goat. Science 221: 636-639. pdf
- George Evelyn Hutchinson: 20 th-century ecologist. LB SLOBODKIN, NG SLACK Endeavour 23:11, 24-30, Elsevier Science, 1999. (Inclui a árvore de descendentes intelectuais de Hutchinson).
Teoria moderna da coexistência
- Chesson, P., 2000. Mechanisms of maintenance of species diversity. Annual review of Ecology and Systematics, pp.343-366.
- Chesson, P., 2000. General theory of competitive coexistence in spatially-varying environments. Theoretical population biology, 58(3), pp.211-237.
- Adler P.B., Hillerislambers, J. & Levine, J.M. 2007. A niche for neutrality. Ecology Letters, 10:95-104.
- HilleRisLambers, J., Adler, P. B., Harpole, W. S., Levine, J. M., & Mayfield, M. M. (2012). Rethinking community assembly through the lens of coexistence theory. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 43(1), 227.
Estrutura filogenética de comunidades
- Webb, C. O., Ackerly, D. D., McPeek, M. A., & Donoghue, M. J. (2002). Phylogenies and community ecology. Annual review of ecology and systematics, 475-505.
- Losos, J.B., 2008. Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species. Ecology letters, 11(10), pp.995-1003. Esclarece a diferença entre conservação de nicho e sinal filogenético de nicho.
Modelagem de "nicho"
- Peterson, A.T., Soberón, J., Pearson, R.G., Anderson, R.P., Martínez-Meyer, E., Nakamura, M. and Araújo, M.B. 2011. Ecological niches and geographic distributions (MPB-49) (Vol. 56). Princeton University Press.
- Lozier, J. D., Aniello, P., & Hickerson, M. J. (2009). Predicting the distribution of Sasquatch in western North America: anything goes with ecological niche modelling. Journal of Biogeography, 36(9), 1623-1627.