Within outlying mean indexes: refining the OMI analysis for the realized niche decomposition

• Published in: PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) Vol. 5; no. e3364; pp. e3364 - 17
• Main Authors: Karasiewicz, Stéphane, Dolédec, Sylvain, Lefebvre, Sébastien
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States PeerJ, Inc 23.05.2017; PeerJ; PeerJ Inc
• Subjects: Biodiversity and Ecology; Biogeography; Biological constraint; Biology; Climate change; Community; Decomposition; Ecology; Environmental conditions; Environmental Sciences; Eutrophication; Habitats; Marginality; Niche dynamic; Niches; Plankton; Predation; Principal components analysis; Spatial distribution; Spatio-temporal; Species; Statistics; Subniche; Vegetation; Spatio-temporal; Subniche; Biological constraint; Marginality; Habitat; Community; Niche dynamic

The ecological niche concept has regained interest under environmental change (e.g., climate change, eutrophication, and habitat destruction), especially to study the impacts on niche shift and conservatism. Here, we propose the within outlying mean indexes (WitOMI), which refine the outlying mean i...