Does phylogenetic relatedness influence the strength of competition among vascular plants

By James F. Cahill Jr., Steven W. Kembel, E. Lamb, P. Keddy. 2008

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

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Functional trait differences and the outcome of community assembly: an experimental test with vernal pool annual plants (2014, background): “…and Landa 1991), and experimental studies considering phylogenetic distance have reported patterns consistent with trait distance decreasing competition (close relatives compete more than distant relatives: Burns and Strauss 2011), and of no relationship (Cahill et al. 2008, Bennett et al. 2013).”
Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better) (2015, background): “As a result, despite strong competition among species in grasslands (Cahill et al. 2008) this competition may not leave a signature in species composition if grazing is sufficiently frequent (e.g. Zobel 1992).”
Conspecific and phylogenetic density‐dependent survival differs across life stages in a tropical forest (2015, background): “…keeping with the idea that ecological interactions (e.g. competition, herbivory and pathogen transmission) are typically phylogenetically conserved (Novotny et al. 2002; Gilbert & Webb 2007; Bagchi, Press & Scholes 2010; G omez, Verd u & Perfectti 2010; Liu et al. 2012; but see Cahill et al. 2008).”
The merging of community ecology and phylogenetic biology. (2009, background): “…of tightly interconnected species shaped over long periods of interaction or are the result of chance cooccurrences of individually dispersed and distributed organisms (Clements 1916; Gleason 1926; Davis 1981; Brooks & McLennan 1991; Callaway 1997; DiMichele et al. 2004; Ricklefs 2008).”
Can limiting similarity increase invasion resistance? A meta‐analysis of experimental studies (2013, result): “Cahill et al. (2008) found in a meta-analysis that monocots were poor competitors against eudicots, while eudicots were more strongly suppressed by other eucidots suggesting that the invader functional group may also affect the outcome.”
Temporal shifts from facilitation to competition occur between closely related taxa (2008, background): “Interestingly, when the competitionrelatedness hypothesis is tested by considering selected pairs of species, the tendency for plant species to compete more intensively with their close relatives vanishes ( Cahill et al . 2007 ).”
Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities. (2010, methodology): “…hypothesis, most studies explain this counter evidence as resulting from either a lack of phylogenetic trait conservatism or a weak influence of competition on the assembly of the examined system (recent uses of these interpretations in Cahill et al. 2008 and Cavender-Bares et al. 2009).”
Emerging patterns in the comparative analysis of phylogenetic community structure (2009, background): “Many studies have assumed that trait and niche conservatism dominate in their study organisms, and, while this may be broadly justified — morphology-based taxonomy has been successful over the centuries because of this fact — the relationship is not universally strong (e.g. Cahill et al. 2008).”
Resolving Darwin’s naturalization conundrum: a quest for evidence (2010, background): “To our knowledge, only one study tried to relate experimental measurements of competitive interactions to species phylogenetic relatedness (Cahill et al., 2008).”
Historic and prehistoric human‐driven extinctions have reshaped global mammal diversity patterns (2015, background): “The evidence for this is limited (Cahill et al., 2008), but a functional coupling between the high megafauna ordinal diversity in the Americas and the region’s very high natural megafauna species diversity is still possible.”
Seed dispersal effectiveness revisited: a conceptual review. (2010, result): “While these results are compatible with the long-standing expectation that more closely related species compete more strongly among themselves than with more distantly related species, such a relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and competition is not universal (e.g. Cahill et al., 2008).”
Using functional traits and phylogenetic trees to examine the assembly of tropical tree communities (2012, background): “Cahill et al. (2008) found little evidence that more clo- sely related plant species compete more strongly (see also Mayfield & Levine 2010); and Cadotte, Hamilton & Murray (2009) found no evidence for phylogenetic clustering of inva- sion success at the landscape scale.”