Ecological drift in niche-structured communities: neutral pattern does not imply neutral process

By Drew Purves, S. Pacala. 2005

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

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Citations in the corpus

Spatial patterns of tree species richness in two temperate forests (2011, background): “It has been suggested that the SAR may have low discriminatory power in distinguishing between niche assembly and dispersal assembly (e.g. Chave 2004; Purves & Pacala 2005), and McGill, Maurer & Weiser (2006) argued that additional predictions should be evaluated.”
Modes of speciation and the neutral theory of biodiversity (2007, background): “Several different mechanisms could (approximately) lead to this formula, because pattern does not equal process (Cohen 1968, Purves and Pacala 2005).”
Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities (2012, background): “Alternatively, species may drift neutrally in abundance, yet co-occur over long periods of time (Hubbell 2001), or biotic interactions and filteringmay balance each other to produce seemingly random, or neutral, patterns (Purves & Pacala 2005).”
Reconciling niche and neutrality: the continuum hypothesis. (2006, background): “It has been argued that observing patterns of species abundance typically predicted by neutral models cannot necessarily be taken as evidence of neutral processes (Purves & Pacala 2005), and our results concur with that.”
Ecological information from spatial patterns of plants: insights from point process theory (2009, background): “It turns out to be hard to distinguish the neutral and niche-structured models from this information (Purves & Pacala 2005; Illian & Burslem 2007).”
Species associations in an old‐growth temperate forest in north‐eastern China (2010, unknown): “One possible reason for the current inability to decide between competing theories is that the patterns used, basically the species abundance distribution and the species–area relationship, have low discriminatory power (e.g. Chave 2004; Purves & Pacala 2005).”
Predicting the effects of increasing temporal scale on species composition, diversity, and rank-abundance distributions (2010, background): “…assemblages whose parameters conform to the neutral model at larger spatial scales, because averaging over multiple habitats equalizes the distribution of species that differ in per capita growth rates or in habitat requirements (Purves and Pacala 2005; Ricklefs 2007; Allouche and Kadmon 2009).”
Assembly rules of ectoparasite communities across scales: combining patterns of abiotic factors, host composition, geographic space, phylogeny and traits (2015, background): “However, a pattern superfi cially resembling neutrality could arise due to the counter-balancing of competition and environmental fi ltering (Purves and Pacala 2005).”