FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Within outlying mean indexes: refining the OMI analysis for the realized niche decomposition BT AF KARASIEWICZ, Stephane DOLEDEC, Sylvain LEFEBVRE, Sebastien AS 1:1;2:2;3:1,3; FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-RBE-HMMN-RHBL; C1 ULCO, Univ Sci & Technol Lille Lille I, CNRS, UMR LOG 8187, Wimereux, Nord Pas De Cal, France. Univ Claude Bernard Lyon I, UMR LEHNA 5023, Biodiversite & Plasticite Hydrosyst, Villeurbanne, Rhone, France. IFREMER, Lab Ressources Halieut, Boulogne, Nord Pas De Cal, France. C2 UNIV LITTORAL COTE D'OPALE, FRANCE UNIV LYON, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BOULOGNE SE PDG-RBE-HMMN-RHBL IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 DOAJ copubli-france copubli-univ-france IF 2.118 TC 41 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00389/49999/50584.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00389/49999/50585.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00389/49999/50586.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Biological constraint;Niche dynamic;Marginality;Community;Spatio-temporal;Subniche;Habitat AB 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 index (OMI) analysis by using its properties in combination with the K-select analysis species marginality decomposition. The purpose is to decompose the ecological niche into subniches associated with the experimental design, i.e., taking into account temporal and/or spatial subsets. WitOMI emphasize the habitat conditions that contribute (1) to the definition of species' niches using all available conditions and, at the same time, (2) to the delineation of species' subniches according to given subsets of dates or sites. The latter aspect allows addressing niche dynamics by highlighting the influence of atypical habitat conditions on species at a given time and/or space. Then, (3) the biological constraint exerted on the species subniche becomes observable within Euclidean space as the difference between the existing fundamental subniche and the realized subniche. We illustrate the decomposition of published OMI analyses, using spatial and temporal examples. The species assemblage's subniches are comparable to the same environmental gradient, producing a more accurate and precise description of the assemblage niche distribution under environmental change. The WitOMI calculations are available in the open-access R package "subniche." PY 2017 PD MAY SO Peerj SN 2167-8359 PU Peerj Inc VL 5 UT 000401846200013 BP 1 EP 17 DI 10.7717/peerj.3364 ID 49999 ER EF