Evidence for limiting similarity in a sand dune community

By W. Stubbs, J. Bastow Wilson. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The distribution of below‐ground traits is explained by intrinsic species differences and intraspecific plasticity in response to root neighbours (2013, background): “It has been predicted that competitive displacement would limit similarity among coexisting species, producing a nonrandom, even spacing of traits among species in direct competition (Stubbs & Wilson 2004).”
Changes in assembly rules along a stress gradient from open dry grasslands to wetlands (2016, methodology): “This limiting similarity of cooccurring species causes trait divergence in a given community (MacArthur & Levins 1967; Stubbs & Wilson 2004).”
Challenges in linking trait patterns to niche differentiation (2016, background): “A number of studies have reported patterns of trait dispersion that are interpreted as reflecting niche differentiation (Stubbs and Wilson 2004, Kraft et al. 2008, Cornwell and Ackerly 2009, Wilson and Stubbs 2012).”
Phylogenetic diversity, trait diversity and niches: species assembly of ferns along a tropical elevational gradient (2011, background): “…(reviewed by Webb et al., 2002), and the degree of relatedness between cooccurring species in terms of phylogenetic and trait similarity may shed light on prevailing ecological processes such as environmental filtering (Weiher & Keddy, 1995) and niche differentiation (Stubbs & Wilson, 2004).”
Dispersion of traits related to competitive ability in an old‐field plant community (2007, methodology): “…prevalence of co-occurring species possessing either a wider spread of traits, or a more evenly distributed spread of traits (Weiher & Keddy 1995; Stubbs & Wilson 2004), as might be expected if either the competition-colonization trade-off were important in determining community patterns, or if…”
Limiting similarity between invaders and dominant species in herbaceous plant communities? (2007, background): “In other words, communities may be invasible if they currently lack species that are ecologically similar to the invader (Lodge 1993; Stubbs & Wilson 2004).”
A trait-based approach to comparative functional plant ecology: concepts, methods and applications for agroecology. A review (2012, background): “…attribute convergence varies with spatial scale: traits involved in interactions with other plants such as those describing resource use are generally less convergent at the neighbourhood scale than at the habitat scale (McKane et al. 2002; Stubbs and Wilson 2004; Cavender-Bares et al. 2009).”
Intraspecific variability and trait‐based community assembly (2010, methodology): “Trait-based approaches have recently emerged as a promising way to understand the mechanisms structuring plant communities (e.g. Stubbs & Wilson 2004; Ackerly & Cornwell 2007; Cingolani et al. 2007; Schamp, Chau & Aarssen 2008; Webb et al. 2010), so much so that McGill et al. (2006) proposed…”
Ecological assembly rules in plant communities—approaches, patterns and prospects (2012, background): “The appendix of Stubbs & Wilson (2004) provides a very good example.”
Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland (2008, background): “This process was necessary due to the lack of specific information on which trait(s) were likely to be the most important for each ecosystem process, out of a suite of candidates identified previously (e.g. Cornelissen et al. 2003; Stubbs & Wilson 2004).”