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ArticleBioscience2022

How Individualized Niches Arise: Defining Mechanisms of Niche Construction, Niche Choice, and Niche Conformance.

Rose Trappes, Behzad Nematipour, Marie I Kaiser, Ulrich Krohs, Koen J van Benthem, Ulrich R Ernst, Jürgen Gadau, Peter Korsten, Joachim Kurtz, Holger Schielzeth and 2 more

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Article in Bioscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  17. Conceptualising research environments using biological niche concepts.European journal for philosophy of science · 2025
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  19. Migratory birds modulate niche tradeoffs in rhythm with seasons and life history.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Rose TrappesDepartment of Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, University of Exeter, Exeter, England, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6398-5404
Behzad NematipourCenter for Philosophy of Science, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Marie I KaiserDepartment of Philosophy, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Ulrich KrohsDepartment of Philosophy, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Koen J van BenthemDepartment of Theoretical Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany, and with the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Ulrich R ErnstUniversität Hohenheim, Apicultural State Institute (Landesanstalt für Bienenkunde), Stuttgart, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6330-5341
Jürgen GadauInstitute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, in Münster, Germany.
Peter KorstenDepartment of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Joachim KurtzInstitute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7258-459X
Holger SchielzethPopulation Ecology Group, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9124-2261
Tim SchmollDepartment of Evolutionary Biology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
Elina TakolaPopulation Ecology Group, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organisms interact with their environments in various ways. We present a conceptual framework that distinguishes three mechanisms of organism-environment interaction. We call these

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habitat choiceindividual differencesindividualized nicheniche constructionphenotypic plasticity

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PMID35677293
PMCPMC9169896

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