Community assembly by limiting similarity vs. competitive hierarchies: testing the consequences of dispersion of individual traits

By T. Herben, D. Goldberg. 2014

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

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Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better) (2015, background): “Competitive ability can be enhanced through increased dispersal distance among ramets (Semchenko et al. 2013), increased plant height (Gaudet & Keddy 1988), altered root growth (Wang et al. 2010), and potentially shifts in growth vs architectural traits (Herben & Goldberg 2014).”
Functional structure and specialization in three tropical plant-hummingbird interaction networks across an elevational gradient in Costa Rica (2015, background): “However, different mechanisms can lead to similar patterns of functional diversity (Herben and Goldberg 2014) and especially the relationship between the prevalence of competition and functional community structure is controversial (HilleRisLambers et al. 2012, Dehling et al. Ecography 38:…”
Challenges in linking trait patterns to niche differentiation (2016, background): “Beyond tree traits, theory is still developing regarding which types of trait variation and tradeoffs are related to stabilization and which are simply related to fitness differences and/ or fitness equalization (Herben and Goldberg 2014).”
The reciprocal relationship between competition and intraspecific trait variation (2016, background): “Journal of Ecology © 2016 British Ecological Society, Journal of Ecology, 104, 1410–1420 evenness of root diameter also decreased when using traits measured in competition, but only when using mixture traits (Fig.”