Community Assembly, Niche Conservatism, and Adaptive Evolution in Changing Environments

By David D. Ackerly. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PLANT SCIENCES, 2003

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

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Biome Shifts and Niche Evolution in Plants (2014, background): “Much more attention must be paid to population dynamics, community interactions, and the genetics of colonization and especially to how these interact with the evolutionary opportunities along leading versus trailing edges of species ranges (Ackerly 2003, Gilman et al. 2010).”
Evolution of the Madrean–Tethyan disjunctions and the North and South American amphitropical disjunctions in plants (2009, background): “The spatial and temporal processes need to be interpreted in both local ecological and large-scale contexts (Ackerly, 2003, 2009; Wiens & Donoghue, 2004).”
Species' borders: A unifying theme in ecology (2005, positive): “In general, it is difficult to explain observed patterns of conservatism in species’ ecological niches (which to a rough approximation determine many aspects of range limits, Peterson 2003), without considering interactions among species sorting out in spatially heterogenous environments (Ackerly 20”
Ecological niche conservatism: a time‐structured review of evidence (2011, background): “Subsequent discussions and reviews of the subject (Ackerly, 2003; Wiens & Graham, 2005; Losos, 2008; Pearman et al., 2008; Warren et al., 2008; Wiens, 2008) have shed new light on the issue, particularly as additional evidence has accumulated.”
The formation of species pools: historical habitat abundance affects current local diversity (2011, background): “include large-scale ecological and evolutionary processes expressed in a geographic setting (Ackerly, 2003; Wiens & Donoghue, 2004; Ricklefs, 2007; Ricklefs, 2008), is frequently accepted in theory, but with respect to empirical studies, the first steps in incorporating historical processes when exp”
Branch xylem density variations across the Amazon Basin (2009, background): “Patterns of ρx across Amazonia support the idea that species are not randomly distributed across landscapes but follow the “habitat tracking” hypothesis (Ackerly, 2003).”
Plant Facilitation and Phylogenetics (2013, background): “The development of comparative biology in a rigorous phylogenetic context has provided a renewed view of the patterns of similarity and divergence of traits defining the niche between related species (Ackerly 2003).”
Limiting similarity and functional diversity along environmental gradients (2005, methodology): “Our future plans include using this model to explore evolutionary dynamics on environmental gradients and the role of community assembly as a factor promoting niche conservatism ( Ackerly 2003 ).”
The biogeographic history of ruminant faunas determines the phylogenetic structure of their assemblages at different scales (2014, background): “2) Extreme environments: some authors (Ackerly 2003, Kraft et al. 2007) have reported that extreme environments may drive the selection of derived adaptations to severe conditions (habitat filtering).”
Spatial modelling of biodiversity at the community level (2006, background): “: Palaeoecology provides clear evidence that community types of the past were different from those observed today (Huntley 1991; Ackerly 2003).”