Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland

By Maud Bernard‐Verdier, M. Navas, M. Vellend, C. Violle, Adeline Fayolle, Eric Garnier. 2012

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

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Changes in assembly rules along a stress gradient from open dry grasslands to wetlands (2016, methodology): “Trends may depend on which traits are involved in the study (Bernard-Verdier et al. 2012; Spasojevic & Suding 2012) and which part of the stress gradient is sampled (Bernard-Verdier et al.”
Dos and don'ts when inferring assembly rules from diversity patterns (2020, background): “The main argument for the former is that different traits may drive different processes and that analyses should thus be process and trait specific (Bernard-Verdier et al., 2012; Gross et al., 2013; Spasojevic, Copeland, & Suding, 2014).”
A hyper‐arid environment shapes an inverse pattern of the fast–slow plant economics spectrum for above‐, but not below‐ground resource acquisition strategies (2018, background): “…of this system, but also from local biotic processes, such as competition and/or facilitation (Cahill, 1999; López et al., 2016), which increase trait dissimilarity and allow plant coexistence by way of niche differentiation (Bernard-Verdier et al., 2012; de la Riva, Perez-Ramos, et al., 2016).”
Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis (2014, background): “Mediterranean grasslands, Bernard-Verdier et al. (2012) detected significant changes of community-weighted mean trait values in relation to this gradient for most tested traits.”
A plant economics spectrum in Mediterranean forests along environmental gradients: is there coordination among leaf, stem and root traits? (2016, background): “Hence, greater height implies a greater ability to compete for above-ground resources such as light (Bernard-Verdier et al. 2012), and this strategy could be advantageous for acquisitive species inhabiting more-productive and moister sites (Reich et al.”
Root traits are related to plant water-use among rangeland Mediterranean species (2017, methodology): “We selected 12 C3 perennial species (Table 2 and Table S1, Supporting Information) which are common in French Mediterranean rangelands (Bernard-Verdier et al. 2012).”
Functional trait metrics are sensitive to the completeness of the species' trait data? (2014, background): “This potential sensitivity to the precise method and effort in the sampling of species’ abundances may have contributed a fair degree of noise to studies which have attempted to assess the strength of community convergence/divergence or the impact of the environment on these patterns (e.g. Pakeman 2”
Evidence for scale‐ and disturbance‐dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi‐natural grasslands (2013, background): “…have examined the effects of spatial scale on community assembly, a greater number of them have investigated changes in assembly patterns across different disturbance regimes (see, for example, Pausas & Verd 2008; Mason et al. 2011; Bernard-Verdier et al. 2012; Lalibert e, Norton & Scott 2013).”