Climatic niche
Beyond the differences between the balance in recruited and extinct
species, we also found that their climatic niches are significantly
different. In the deciduous forests, recruited species niches are
characterised by higher temperatures, meaning that those adapted to
colder temperatures are being locally excluded and replaced by hotter
climate species (Table 2). A similar trend regarding the precipitation
niche was found in the deciduous forests: recruited species’ niches are
negatively associated with low precipitation (Table 2), meaning that
species with higher precipitation niches are being recruited. In
semideciduous and evergreen forests, no significant differences
regarding climatic species niches (temperature and precipitation) were
found (Tables 2 and 3).