Disentangling the importance of ecological niches from stochastic processes across scales

By Jonathan M. Chase, J. Myers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2011

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Beta diversity of plants, birds and butterflies is closely associated with climate and habitat structure (2017, background): “Niche-based processes, such as environmental filtering and biotic interactions, drive community assembly through selective forces on traits that allow a species to occupy a niche, resulting in spatial heterogeneity in community composition (Belyea & Lancaster, 1999; Chase & Myers, 2011).”
Similar community assembly mechanisms underlie similar biogeography of rare and abundant bacteria in lakes on Yungui Plateau, China (2017, background): “3), since in Hubbell’s neutral theory, community dissimilarity was predicted to increase along spatial (distance) gradients owing to dispersal limitation (Chase and Myers 2011).”
Soil microbiomes with distinct assemblies through vertical soil profiles drive the cycling of multiple nutrients in reforested ecosystems (2018, background): “Previous work has demonstrated that niche filtering is more important for microbial community selection in the rhizosphere soil than in bulk soil, due to the potential interactions of soil physicochemical characteristics and root-derived products [57, 58].”
A general framework for quantitatively assessing ecological stochasticity (2019, background): “, random chance for colonization), and ecological drift (random changes in organism abundances) (2, 3, 5, 7, 8).”
From Animalcules to an Ecosystem: Application of Ecological Concepts to the Human Microbiome (2012, background): “Both niche and neutral processes are likely important for assembling the bacterial communities of humans, a pattern already reported for some plant and animal communities (Chase 2007, Chase & Myers 2011) and microbial communities (Cadotte 2007, Fukami et al. 2007, Zhang et al. 2009).”
Stochasticity, succession, and environmental perturbations in a fluidic ecosystem (2014, background): “Whereas selection is definitely deterministic and drift is stochastic, speciation and dispersal could contribute to both (5).”
A probabilistic model for analysing species co-occurrence (2013, background): “To some degree, the controversy continues (Ellwood et al., 2009; Kennedy, 2009; Ulrich et al., 2009; Chase & Myers, 2011; Collins et al., 2011; Sanderson et al., 2011), and the analysis of co-occurrence patterns remains a huge area of ecological and statistical endeavour (Gotelli, 2000; Ladau,…”