The key difference, however, between the approach in Darimont et al. [14] and the hierarchical mixing model presented here is that the latter explicitly evaluates niche width based on diet proportion variability (estimated from a mixing model), rather that niche width based on isotope variability as a proxy for diet proportion variability.
This approach requires improved integration of empirical and theoretical ecology with direct experimental evidence of putative structuring mechanisms to evaluate the niche and/or neutral processes structuring ecological communities.
Further studies should be conducted to evaluate the niche-specific pathogenesis-related function of these genes as well as their potential to provide antigenic diversity when infecting M. suis confronts the adaptive immune response of the pig.
We describe the global diffusion of community currencies, and then conduct a niche analysis to evaluate the utility of niche theories for explaining the development of the community currency movement.
To determine its habitat and to understand why it became extinct, we tried to evaluate its dietary niche.
Therefore, this assemblage provides a unique opportunity to evaluate possible dietary niche partitioning among Late Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaurs.
To evaluate one biotic niche dimension, we examined P. leptocoma and P. reflexa roots for colonization by fungal symbionts other than Epichloë spp., which do not occupy roots.
An evaluation of releases grown in each of the seed zones in comparison with local ecotypes would also be of interest and should help evaluate the climatic niche of each release.
Our objectives were to: 1) evaluate the global climate niche for grass, herbaceous, and woody bioenergy crops, 2) compare the bioenergy crop climate niche with invasive species that were widely introduced for agronomic purposes, and 3) compare the ecoregional distribution of both bioenergy crops and invasive species in North America, especially the continental US.
This was substantiated by a second study, using immunofluorescent double stainings to evaluate HPCs and their niche in different types of liver disease.
