The quest for trait convergence and divergence in community assembly: are null‐models the magic wand?

By Francesco de Bello. 2012

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Evidence for scale‐ and disturbance‐dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi‐natural grasslands (2013, background): “…but it may also be the result of biotic interactions, when species bearing traits associated with low competitive ability are outcompeted, thus increasing the similarity among coexisting species (‘weaker-competitor exclusion’; de Bello 2012; Chesson 2000; Grime 2006; Mayfield & Levine 2010).”
The community ecology of invasive species: where are we and what's next? (2017, unknown): “Limits to null models and alternatives: regression approaches While null-models have great potential for revealing nonrandom patterns in invasions, they suffer from two main limitations (Strong et al. 1984, de Bello 2012).”
A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients (2013, methodology): “As demonstrated by de Bello et al. (2011), Albert et al. (2012), Laliberte & Legendre (2010) and de Bello et al.”
Hierarchical effects of environmental filters on the functional structure of plant communities: a case study in the French Alps (2013, background): “Nevertheless, understanding the processes driving the functional structure of ecological communities remains one of the central challenges of community ecology (Grime 2006, Cornwell and Ackerly 2009, Villeger et al. 2010, de Bello 2012).”
Using trait and phylogenetic diversity to evaluate the generality of the stress‐dominance hypothesis in eastern North American tree communities (2014, methodology): “The trait-diversity z-scores that we analyzed are known to be susceptible to the formulation of the null model (Mouchet et al. 2010, de Bello 2012).”
Testing the ability of functional diversity indices to detect trait convergence and divergence using individual‐based simulation (2016, background): “…Ecological Society, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 114–126 strongly depends on the environmental heterogeneity of the data sets studied (Willis et al. 2010; De Bello 2012): the power of the tests becomes low if the gradient sampled is short relative to the tolerancewidth of the species (Fig.”
Consistent patterns of elevational change in tree taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity across Malesian mountain forests (2013, background): “…because they are context-dependent and we address large-scale biogeographical processes from information obtained from a limited species pool (de Bello, 2011), the elevational trend from clustering towards overdispersion appears to be reliable because the data of all 12 plots were analysed in…”
Soil resource availability shapes community trait structure in a species‐rich dipterocarp forest (2012, background): “A recent study suggested the detection of community assembly rules dependent on the pool of samples considered (de Bello 2011).”
Community assembly by limiting similarity vs. competitive hierarchies: testing the consequences of dispersion of individual traits (2014, background): “Ackerly & Cornwell (2007); (see also De Bello 2012) suggested that traits can be described as related to environmental filtering (b traits, likely to converge within communities) or related to coexistence within communities (a traits, likely to diverge within communities).”