Community assembly, coexistence and the environmental filtering metaphor

By Nathan J B Kraft, P. Adler, Ó. Godoy, E. C. James, S. Fuller, J. Levine. 2015

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

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Phytoplankton functional diversity increases ecosystem productivity and stability (2017, background): “Environmental filtering occurs when a species arrives at a focal site but fails to survive even in the absence of neighbours; competitive exclusion occurs when a species arrives and can persist in the absence of neighbours but not in their presence (Kraft et al., 2015).”
Linking the biological impacts of ocean acidification on oysters to changes in ecosystem services: A review (2017, background): “ 985 Fulton, E.A., 2011.”
Functional traits and ecosystem services in ecological restoration (2020, background): “Functional traits may be related to mechanisms of community assembly such as competitive hierarchies (Keddy & Shipley 1989), limiting similarity (MacArthur & Levins 1967) and environmental filtering (Kraft et al. 2015).”
Regeneration: an overlooked aspect of trait‐based plant community assembly models (2016, background): “…abiotic filtering may occur across microsites at the plot level, but be undetectable at the community level, where environmental heterogeneity and species niche differences promote coexistence and regeneration trait divergence within the community (Grubb 1977; Grime 2006; Kraft et al. 2015a).”
Response and effect traits of arable weeds in agro‐ecosystems: a review of current knowledge (2017, methodology): “The traitbased approach also provides an integrated method to determine the influence of community assembly mechanisms, such as environmental filtering, niche differentiation and competitive hierarchies (Kraft et al., 2015).”
Invaders among locals: Alien species decrease phylogenetic and functional diversity while increasing dissimilarity among native community members (2018, methodology): “Also, we apply the three tests to trait mean values in a community (Garnier et al., 2004) to assess whether there is a differentiation in overall functional strategies among species (Kraft et al., 2015).”
Beta diversity of plants, birds and butterflies is closely associated with climate and habitat structure (2017, methodology): “Thus, using a comprehensive set of abiotic and biotic predictors of beta diversity might provide a more complete picture of how communities are structured by abiotic and biotic filters (Kraft et al., 2015).”
Are urban systems beneficial, detrimental, or indifferent for biological invasion? (2017, background): “#3) that both shape local processes and interactions (#2) positive growth rates, in some locales, results in a species being unable to compete (Cadotte and Tucker 2017; Kraft et al. 2015) (Fig.”
How to make more out of community data? A conceptual framework and its implementation as models and software. (2017, background): “Of these hierarchical sieves, ‘environmental filters’ correspond to those abiotic factors which prevent the establishment or persistence of species in local communities (Kraft et al. 2015), and thus outline the fundamental niche of a species.”