{"id":487831,"date":"2018-06-19T07:59:18","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a996aed34bc7e8067d6c0357d29afbbe"},"modified":"2018-06-19T07:59:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T11:59:18","slug":"on-the-expansion-threshold-of-a-species-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=487831","title":{"rendered":"On the expansion threshold of a species&#8217; range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What stops a species adapting to an ever-wider range of conditions, continuously expanding its geographic range?  The biomathematician Jitka Polechov\u00e1, an Elise Richter Fellow at the University of Vienna, has published a paper in PLoS Biology which explains the formation of species&#8217; range margins. The theory shows that just two compound parameters, important for both ecology and evolution of species, are fundamental to the stability of their range: the environmental heterogeneity and the size of the local population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What stops a species adapting to an ever-wider range of conditions, continuously expanding its geographic range?  The biomathematician Jitka Polechov&aacute;, an Elise Richter Fellow at the University of Vienna, has published a paper in PLoS Biology which explains the formation of species&#8217; range margins. The theory shows that just two compound parameters, important for both ecology and evolution of species, are fundamental to the stability of their range: the environmental heterogeneity and the size of the local population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487832,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487831\/revisions\/487832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}