Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

By M. Spasojevic, K. Suding. 2012

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

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In Ecological Modeling

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2. Wilfried Thuiller
3. N. Mason
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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Francesco de Bello
2. N. Mason
3. Wilfried Thuiller
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5. David Mouillot
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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Francesco de Bello
2. Wilfried Thuiller
3. N. Mason
4. S. Lavorel
5. J. Lepš
6. David Mouillot
7. Barbara C. Schmid
8. C. Violle

Citations in the corpus

• A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients (2013, background): “Recent theoretical and practical advances in the measurement of functional diversity have led to an increase in the use of functional diversity indices to detect changes in community assembly processes along ecological gradients (Mason et al. 2011a,b; Pakeman 2011; Spasojevic & Suding 2012).”
• Community assembly by limiting similarity vs. competitive hierarchies: testing the consequences of dispersion of individual traits (2014, background): “Consistent with this argument, several recent studies have shown clearer patterns of trait structure along environmental gradients using analyses of single functional traits than multitrait indices (Spasojevic & Suding 2012; Butterfield & Suding 2013).”
• Mapping functional diversity using individual tree-based morphological and physiological traits in a subtropical forest (2021, background): “limiting similarity constraints and similarities have been hypothesized to be due to environmental filtering (Cornwell et al., 2006; Garnier and Navas, 2012; Spasojevic and Suding, 2012).”
• Fertilization decreases species diversity but increases functional diversity: A three-year experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow (2014, background): “As such, examining FD in contrasting habitats has been proposed as a promise way to understand trait-based community assembly (Mouchet et al., 2010; Spasojevic and Suding, 2012; Mason et al., 2013) as well as identify the consequences of species loss due to land use change for ecosystem functioning…”
• Testing the ability of functional diversity indices to detect trait convergence and divergence using individual‐based simulation (2016, background): “…all traits into a single analysis may hide existing patterns: opposite departures from randomness (i.e. convergence and divergence) in different traits may cancel each other out (Spasojevic & Suding 2012), while including neutral traits weakens the statistical tests (Butterfield& Suding 2013).”
• Aboveground carbon storage is driven by functional trait composition and stand structural attributes rather than biodiversity in temperate mixed forests recovering from disturbances (2018, background): “Typically, fast-growing species have a higher light demand and lower wood density than slow-growing conservative species (Spasojevic and Suding 2012).”
• PAPER Community assembly processes shape an altitudinal gradient of forest biodiversity (2013, background): “In reality, in addition to niche partitioning (limiting similarity), the local assembly of a plant community may be structured by different (and sometimes opposing) processes, such as abiotic filtering and facilitation (Spasojevic & Suding, 2012).”
• Regeneration: an overlooked aspect of trait‐based plant community assembly models (2016, background): “…for shifts in community-weighted trait means across filter gradients (e.g. Buzzard et al. 2016), evidence of trait convergence or divergence within communities and across gradients (Freschet et al. 2011) or both (e.g. Kraft, Valencia & Ackerly 2008; Spasojevic & Suding 2012; Roscher et al. 2013).”
• Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better) (2015, background): “Spasojevic & Suding (2012) found also no correlation between phylogenetic and functional diversity along a stress-resource gradient (see also Purschke et al. 2013).”
• Intra-specific and inter-specific variation in specific leaf area reveal the importance of abiotic and biotic drivers of species diversity across elevation and latitude (2013, background): “Furthermore, while evidence for greater competitive interactions at lower elevations is more strongly supported (Callaway 1998; Wang et al. 2008; Spasojevic & Suding 2012), the idea of greater competitive interactions at low latitudes is equivocal at best (V azquez & Stevens 2004; Ricklefs 2009;…”
• Effects of human‐modified landscapes on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic dimensions of bat biodiversity (2015, background): “Because the environmental gradient may affect particular functional components differently, integration of ecological attributes into a single multivariate measure may obscure important patterns (Spasojevic & Suding, 2012; Cisneros et al., 2014).”