2. Materials and methods
2.1. Ecological niche modeling
Ecological niches are defined under the BAM framework, where B
(i.e., Biotic) represents the geographic areas presenting the appropriate
sets of interacting species (e.g., prey, competitors), A (i.e., Abiotic)
represents areas that present suitable environmental conditions
(e.g., climate), and M (i.e., Movement) represents the areas accessible
to the species over relevant time periods (Peterson et al., 2011;