Trait Evolution, Community Assembly, and the Phylogenetic Structure of Ecological Communities

By Nathan J B Kraft, William K. Cornwell, Campbell O. Webb, David D. Ackerly. American Naturalist, 2007

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

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Testing the spatial phylogenetic structure of local communities: statistical performances of different null models and test statistics on a locally neutral community (2008, background): “Recently, Kraft et al. (2007) simulated the species assembly of a single local community connected to a source community under various scenarios of species trait evolution and community assembly processes, to assess the statistical properties of the single sample MPD and MNTD metrics combined with n”
Spatial scale and intraspecific trait variability mediate assembly rules in alpine grasslands (2017, background): “The sampling size of the null model is also smaller which is known to affect its power in the case of phylogenetic diversity studies (Kraft et al. 2007).”
Ecological assembly rules in plant communities—approaches, patterns and prospects (2012, methodology): “This usually follows an approach already applied in species and phylogenetic diversity studies (Gotelli & McCabe, 2002; Kraft et al., 2007) where the functional diversity value of an observed community is compared with those derived from multiple null communities, generally resulting from randomizat”
A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients (2013, background): “However, it seems that aspects like phylogenetic tree shape generally have only subtle effects on the likelihood of detecting assembly processes (Kraft et al. 2007).”
Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities. (2010, background): “As a consequence, ecologists increasingly acknowledge that testing the phylogenetic signal in functional traits is a key step when conducting phylogenetic community assembly analyses (Webb et al. 2002; Ackerly 2003; Kraft et al. 2007; Cavender-Bares et al. 2009 to name a few).”
Functional diversity measures: an overview of their redundancy and their ability to discriminate community assembly rules (2010, methodology): “Further, the relative influence of assembly rules depends on the scale of observation (Zobel 1997; Silvertown et al. 2006; Kraft et al. 2007).”
Correlations between phylogenetic and functional diversity: mathematical artefacts or true ecological and evolutionary processes? (2013, background): “Assembly processes; Biodiversity; Diversity indices; Environmental filtering; Niche complementarity; Null model; Phylogenetic signal; Simpson index; Species richness; Surrogates”
Functional classifications and their application in phytoplankton ecology (2015, background): “In this respect, more accurate phylogenetic analyses should be assessed for their potential to contribute synergistically to trait-based approaches (see Westoby, 2006; Kraft et al., 2007; Cavender-Bares et al., 2009; Litchman et al., 2010; Vamosi, 2014).”