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>
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.
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.