The distance decay of similarity in ecological communities

By J. Soininen, R. McDonald, H. Hillebrand. 2007

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Dispersal strength determines meta‐community structure in a dendritic riverine network (2015, methodology): “been used to examine the interaction of processes operating at local and regional scales for a wide range of organisms and ecosystems (Cottenie, 2005; Soininen et al., 2007),”
Body size and dispersal mode as key traits determining metacommunity structure of aquatic organisms. (2012, methodology): “…features of our study design: (1) Our study differs from meta-analysis based studies (Hillebrand et al. 2001; Cottenie 2005; Drakare et al. 2006; Soininen et al. 2007c; Shurin et al. 2009) in that we have analysed metacommunity structure of organism groups in a same set of locations according…”
What drives study‐dependent differences in distance–decay relationships of microbial communities? (2021, background): “The distance– decay of community similarity is one of the most widely studied relationships in macroecology (Nekola & White, 1999; Soininen et al., 2007).”
The latitudinal gradient of beta diversity in relation to climate and topography for mammals in North America (2009, neutral): “Meta-analyses of beta diversity (e.g. Koleff et al., 2003; Soininen et al., 2007) have shown that beta-diversity patterns vary in relation to the spatial scale of the study, the metrics used to characterize turnover, the taxonomic group, major environment (marine versus terrestrial), as well as the ”
Contrasting patterns and mechanisms of spatial turnover for native and exotic freshwater fish in Europe (2009, methodology): “exploring the distance decay of similarity (Soininen et al., 2007).”
The importance of dispersal related and local factors in shaping the taxonomic structure of diatom metacommunities (2009, background): “…with a previous study, which showed that diatom genus richness is a statistically robust proxy for diatom species richness in lakes (Vyverman et al. 2007) and a good surrogate for species level data in accounting for assemblage-structure environment patterns in streams (Heino and Soininen 2007).”
Current measures for distance decay in similarity of species composition are influenced by study extent and grain size (2012, background): “Currently the main explanations for a decline in community similarity with distance are: (1) gradual changes in the environment, (2) structural properties of the landscape limiting dispersal, and (3) random spatially correlated processes (Soininen et al., 2007).”
The Role of Parasitism in Adaptive Radiations—When Might Parasites Promote and When Might They Constrain Ecological Speciation? (2012, background): “Typically, this is seen as a decrease in similarity of parasite species composition with increasing geographical distance among the host populations [49, 50] or even among different”
Disentangling distance decay of similarity from richness gradients: response to Soininen et al. 2007 (2007, background): “disagree with those obtained by Soininen et al. (2007)”
Assemblage structure, but not diversity or density, change with depth on a northeast Pacific seamount (2010, methodology): “Similarity between transects was quantified as Bray–Curtis similarity on presence ⁄ absence data as utilized in other studies (Nekola & White 1999; Soininen et al. 2007) to measure change in composition rather than change in dominance of species.”
Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities (2012, background): “Spatial turnover also increases towards the tropics where regional (‘gamma’) diversity is higher (e.g. Qian & Ricklefs, 2007; Soininen et al., 2007; but see Kraft et al., 2011), possibly because of stronger deterministic processes in the tropics than in temperate regions (Soininen, 2010).”
Environmental and spatial controls of biotic assemblages in a discrete semi‐terrestrial habitat: comparison of organisms with different dispersal abilities sampled in the same plots (2011, background): “Although some previous studies have demonstrated spatial effects in diatom assemblages at a regional scale (Soininen, 2007; Soininen et al., 2007b; Heino et al., 2010), our study is the first to compare their strength with that for macroorganisms sampled in the same plots.”
Community ecology in the age of multivariate multiscale spatial analysis (2012, background): “…have recently been developed and diversified (e.g., Borcard et al. 1992, Borcard and Legendre 2002, Wagner 2004, Dray et al. 2006, Ferrier and Guisan 2006, Lichstein 2007, Soininen et al. 2007, Blanchet et al. 2008a), we aim to highlight here how they can be used to address the above questions.”