Species co-occurrences and neutral models: reassessing J. M. Diamond's assembly rules

By Werner Ulrich. 2004

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

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Statistical challenges in null model analysis (2012, background): “To our knowledge, the eff ect of autocorrelation on matrix structure has not been studied systematically, although Ulrich (2004) demonstrated that a neutral model with limited spatial dispersal can generate binary presence–absence matrices that are statistically segregated.”
Assembly rules operating along a primary riverbed–grassland successional sequence (2006, result): “Recent empirical evidence, however, has supported the concept of limiting similarity (Fargione et al. 2003; Stubbs & Wilson 2004), but the debate is far from being resolved (Ulrich 2004).”
Challenges in linking trait patterns to niche differentiation (2016, background): “Indeed one study suggests the use of a neutral model instead of a purely random null can lead to different results regarding patterns of species co-occurrence (Ulrich 2004).”
Disentangling community patterns of nestedness and species co‐occurrence (2007, methodology): “The sequential swap algorithm has been extensively studied in the context of species cooccurrence and nestedness analyses (Gotelli 2000, Simberloff and Zaman 2000, Miklós and Podani 2004, Ulrich 2004, Ulrich and Gotelli 2007).”
Weak and variable relationships between environmental severity and small‐scale co‐occurrence in alpine plant communities (2007, background): “Such interactions may have both positive and negative effects on the vital rates of vascular plants in cold environments (Erschbamer et al. 2003; Van der Waal & Brooker 2004), or even be highly species-specific as suggested by results from arid ecosystems (Escudero et al. 2007).”
The Jungle of Methods for Evaluating Phenotypic and Phylogenetic Structure of Communities (2010, methodology): “These rules became controversial after the application of appropriate null models (Connor and Simberloff 1979, Gotelli and Graves 1996, Ulrich 2004), and what followed was a massive debate about community structure, mainly focused on searching for empirical evidence that competition structured…”
Discriminating trait‐convergence and trait‐divergence assembly patterns in ecological community gradients (2009, unknown): “Further, trait divergence may just as well arise by stochastic processes (Hubbell 2001; Ulrich 2004), in which case it would be evidenced by methods not taking into account environmental gradients (e.g., Stubbs & Wilson 2004), but not by our method.”