Niche breadth predicts geographical range size: a general ecological pattern.
Citations
667 citations
Cites background from "Niche breadth predicts geographical..."
...These estimates can be used to improve predictions of the responses of species to changing conditions and, ultimately, to increase understanding of the causes of abundance and occurrence patterns (Brown 1984, Gaston 2003, Slatyer et al. 2013)....
[...]
256 citations
Cites background from "Niche breadth predicts geographical..."
...In addition, if host plant use is measured for more individuals of abundant, widespread species than for rare ones, an apparent link between diet breadth and population trend may simply arise as a sampling artifact (16)....
[...]
246 citations
Cites background from "Niche breadth predicts geographical..."
...…to age (ontogenetic niche shifts; reviewed in Nakazawa 2015), sex (intersexual niche partitioning; reviewed in Barrett & Hough 2013), or discrete morphological polymorphism (resource polymorphism; reviewed in Smith & Skúlason 1996) and demonstrated that such variation is widespread in nature....
[...]
References
45,105 citations
"Niche breadth predicts geographical..." refers methods in this paper
...Heterogeneity was estimated using the I2 statistic (Higgins & Thompson 2002; Higgins et al. 2003), which is less sensitive to study number than the commonly quoted Cochrane’s Q (Borenstein et al. 2009)....
[...]
44,587 citations
"Niche breadth predicts geographical..." refers methods in this paper
...We preferentially calculated z using the correlation coefficient r, extracted from summary tables, the text or figures (using Image J v. 1.46r: Schneider et al. 2012)....
[...]
37,989 citations
"Niche breadth predicts geographical..." refers methods in this paper
...First, we tested for funnel plot asymmetry using a weighted regression and standard error as the predictor (Egger et al. 1997; Rothstein et al. 2005)....
[...]
25,460 citations
"Niche breadth predicts geographical..." refers methods in this paper
...Heterogeneity was estimated using the I2 statistic (Higgins & Thompson 2002; Higgins et al. 2003), which is less sensitive to study number than the commonly quoted Cochrane’s Q (Borenstein et al. 2009)....
[...]
11,237 citations
"Niche breadth predicts geographical..." refers methods in this paper
...Finally, we ran separate random-effects models in the R package Metafor (Viechtbauer 2010), using study-level effects for each niche category (i.e. the effect sizes calculated after combining data if required, as described above)....
[...]
...We thank Michael Jennions and Brian Mautz for advice on metaanalysis methods, Wolfgang Viechtbauer for guidance on using the Metafor package and Harry Slatyer for assistance with creating figures....
[...]
...Finally, we ran separate random-effects models in the R package Metafor (Viechtbauer 2010), using study-level effects for each niche category (i....
[...]