Niche partitioning within a population of seasnakes is constrained by ...
In many populations of terrestrial snakes , an individual's phenotype (e.g. body size, sex, colour) affects its habitat use . One cause for that link is gape-limitation, which can result in larger snakes eating prey that are found in different habitats. A second factor involves thermoregulatory opportunities, whereby individuals select habitats based upon thermal conditions. These ideas ...
In this study, we used correlative ecological niche modeling (ENM) to evaluate the relative importance of environmental variables in explaining the distribution of a majority of sea snake species globally. We also analyzed whether there was asymmetry in the dispersion of the lower and upper realized thermal limits.
Abstract In many populations of terrestrial snakes , the phenotype of an individual (e.g. body size, sex, colour) affects its habitat use . One cause for that link is gape limitation, which can result in larger snakes eating prey that are found in different habitats. A second factor involves thermoregulatory opportunities, whereby individuals select habitats based upon thermal conditions. These ...
We then evaluated the asymmetry of the realized thermal niche by measuring and comparing the variances in the upper and lower limits. Both analyses (the importance of variables and realized thermal limit asymmetry) were performed at three taxonomic levels (sea snakes as a lineage of marine-adapted elapids [true sea snakes + sea ...
(PDF) Global analysis of the influence of environmental variables to ...
Global analysis of the influence of environmental variables to explain ecological niches and realized thermal niche boundaries of sea snakes
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