Fire drives phylogenetic clustering in Mediterranean Basin woody plant communities

By Miguel Verdú, Juli G. Pausas. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology. (2009, background): “…causing a feedback loop between ecological and evolutionary processes. et al. 2006; Davies et al. 2007; Hardy & Senterre 2007; Helmus 2007b; Verdu & Pausas 2007), including recent reviews focused on insular communities (Emerson & Gillespie 2008) and emerging patterns across spatial scales…”
Phylogenetic signatures of facilitation and competition in successional communities (2009, background): “In Mediterranean plant communities, fire is an environmental filter favouring seeder species that belong to only a few families and therefore clustering the phylogenetic structure of the community (Verdú & Pausas 2007).”
Emerging patterns in the comparative analysis of phylogenetic community structure (2009, background): “All three entries in this category were temperate plant communities (coastal and montane Mediterranean vegetation: Verdú & Pausas 2007; meadow plants: Silvertown et al. 2006).”
Temporal shifts from facilitation to competition occur between closely related taxa (2008, background): “On the other hand, we know that phenotypically similar species are also phylogenetically closely related species because the phenotypes associated with both the regeneration and adult niches are evolutionary conserved traits (Valiente-Banuet & Verdú 2007; Verdú & Pausas 2007; Pausas & Verdú 2008).”
Shocks to the system: community assembly of the oak savanna in a 40-year fire frequency experiment (2012, background): “These environmental filters may be expected to have consequences for the phylogenetic and functional composition of communities (Cavender-Bares et al. 2004a, b, Verdu and Pausas 2007).”
Burning seeds: germinative response to heat treatments in relation to resprouting ability (2008, background): “Because both resprouting and post-fire seeding are phylogenetically structured in the Mediterranean Basin (Herrera 1992; Pausas & Verdú 2005; Verdú & Pausas 2007), our differences in germination response between resprouting abilities could be driven by species relatedness.”
The role of forest genetic resources in responding to biotic and abiotic factors in the context of anthropogenic climate change (2014, background): “Although many tree species that grow in semi-arid regions have developed mechanisms that confer a degree of resistance to periodic fires, this may not be the case in more humid forests, where increased fire frequency due to climate change may eliminate fire-sensitive species (Verdu and Pausas, 2007)”
The Jungle of Methods for Evaluating Phenotypic and Phylogenetic Structure of Communities (2010, background): “…by guest on 30 July 2018 Articles www.biosciencemag.org September 2010 / Vol. 60 No. 8 • BioScience 619 Articles under high fire frequency, whereas phylogenetic overdispersion occurred in those subject to low fire frequency (Verdú and Pausas 2007, Ojeda et al. 2010).”
Demographic drivers of successional changes in phylogenetic structure across life-history stages in plant communities (2012, background): “…ecology (Finegan 1996, Chazdon 2008) and prior information from studies evaluating community phylogenetic structure in disturbed systems (Verdú and Pausas 2007, Knapp et al. 2008, Helmus et al. 2010, Letcher 2010), we propose a likely scenario for the temporal changes in the…”