Advances, challenges and a developing synthesis of ecological community assembly theory

By E. Weiher, Deborah A. Freund, T. Bunton, Artur Stefanski, Tali D. Lee, S. Bentivenga. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011

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

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A functional trait-based approach to understand community assembly and diversity-productivity relationships over 7 years in experimental grasslands (2013, background): “Communities may be simultaneously constrained by abiotic and biotic forces, thus requiring the evaluation of patterns in functional traits associated with multiple assembly processes (Weiher et al., 2011; Spasojevic and Suding, 2012).”
Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes (2012, background): “Thus, overall patterns in functional and phylogenetic diversity depend on the compilation of patterns of many individual traits and interpreting mechanisms without understanding these underlying patterns may be misleading (Weiher et al. 2011).”
Stochastic and deterministic assembly processes in subsurface microbial communities (2012, background): “Stronger deterministic processes in more extreme environments may therefore be a general phenomenon across both micro- and macro-organism systems (see also Weiher et al., 2011).”
Functional diversity supports the physiological tolerance hypothesis for plant species richness along climatic gradients (2014, background): “The physiological tolerance hypothesis is closely related to the concept of environmental filtering in community assembly (e.g. Cornwell & Ackerly 2009; Weiher et al. 2011).”
How to make more out of community data? A conceptual framework and its implementation as models and software. (2017, background): “These forces encompass neutral processes, historical contingencies such as speciation, dispersal, abiotic environmental factors and biotic interactions (Vellend 2010; Weiher et al. 2011; G€ otzenberger et al. 2012).”
Decoupling phylogenetic and functional diversity to reveal hidden signals in community assembly (2017, background): “The accumulation of available trait data has allowed using trait-based approaches for an increasing number of organisms, regions, and research questions (McGill et al. 2006; de Bello et al. 2010; Kattge et al. 2011; Weiher et al. 2011).”
A comprehensive evaluation of predictive performance of 33 species distribution models at species and community levels (2019, background): “…the response of each species to its environment (environmental filtering, including episodic disturbances), to each other (biotic filtering), and to stochastic processes (e.g., dispersal, temporal variability, and ecological drift; Vellend 2010, Weiher et al. 2011, G€otzenberger et al. 2012).”