The assembly of tropical tree communities – the advances and shortcomings of phylogenetic and functional trait analyses

By N. Swenson. 2013

254 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Thomas L. P. Couvreur
2. Brian J. Enquist
3. Van M. Savage
4. C. Violle
5. N. Swenson
6. M. Cao
7. E. Álvarez
8. Sebastián González‐Caro

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Brian J. Enquist
2. C. Violle
3. Thomas L. P. Couvreur
4. Van M. Savage
5. Colleen Webb
6. S. Bonser
7. N. Swenson
8. A. Henderson

Citations in the corpus

• Scaling from Traits to Ecosystems: Developing a General Trait Driver Theory via Integrating Trait-Based and Metabolic Scaling Theories (2015, background): “An important limitation to developing a more predictive trait-based ecology is that its focus and implementation have relied almost entirely on empirical correlations and null models (for example, see discussion in Swenson, 2013).”
• Effects of human‐modified landscapes on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic dimensions of bat biodiversity (2015, unknown): “Diversity and Distributions, 21, 523–533, ª 2014 John Wiley & Sons Ltd 529 Phylogenetic relatedness is often used as a proxy for functional similarity (Webb, 2000; Swenson, 2013).”
• Phylogenetic alpha and beta diversity in tropical tree assemblages along regional-scale environmental gradients in northwest South America (2014, background): “…assemblages more toward analyzing the importance of historical or evolutionary processes that explain the vast majority of the variability in species distributions and away from simply analyzing the abiotic versus biotic or niche versus neutral dichotomies (Swenson 2013; Swenson and Umaña 2014).”
• Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better) (2015, background): “2009) and lack of correlation between measures of phylogenetic dispersion and trait dispersion (Pavoine & Bonsall 2011; Srivastava et al. 2012; Pavoine et al. 2013; Swenson 2013), questioning the interpretation of assembly mechanisms using phylogenetic data.”
• Functional and phylogenetic assembly in a Chinese tropical tree community across size classes, spatial scales and habitats (2014, methodology): “However, divergent phylogenetic and trait results are still of interest particularly because relatedness may still be representing additional traits that are relevant to the processes being studied (Cadotte, Cardinale & Oakley 2008; Swenson 2013).”
• Odd man out: why are there fewer plant species in African rain forests? (2014, background): “Even though such databases are still patchy at best for TRFs they are staring to become better inventoried (Swenson 2013).”