Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long‐term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

By N. Mason, Sarah J. Richardson, D. Peltzer, Francesco de Bello, David A. Wardle, R. Allen. 2012

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

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The winners and losers of land use intensification: pollinator community disassembly is non‐random and alters functional diversity (2014, unknown): “…different patterns in relation to the null model, we also calculated standardized deviations of functional richness in each site from the null expectation and compared these deviations between land use types using linear models (Ingram & Shurin, 2009; Mason et al., 2012; Lalibert e et al., 2013).”
A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients (2013, background): “Functional richness should increase when niche complementarity enhances probabilities of species occurrence (Mason et al. 2012).”
Topography related habitat associations of tree species traits, composition and diversity in a Chinese tropical forest (2014, result): “Our results correspond to those of Mason et al. (2012) who found that at high soil fertility”
Changes in assembly rules along a stress gradient from open dry grasslands to wetlands (2016, background): “This contradicts Coyle’s hypothesis, and is more in line with the findings and predictions of Pakeman (2011), Mason et al. (2012), Carboni et al. (2014), and supports Grime’s (2006) prediction that higher productivity leads to trait convergence.”
The world‐wide ‘fast–slow’ plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto (2014, background): “…and high tissue longevity, which excel at tolerating low resources and/or suppressing resource supply to neighbours, are successful under low nutrient supply (Tilman 1987; Tilman & Wedin 1991; Aerts & Chapin 2000; Craine et al. 2002; Craine 2009; Holdaway et al. 2011; Mason et al. 2012).”
Single‐trait functional indices outperform multi‐trait indices in linking environmental gradients and ecosystem services in a complex landscape (2013, background): “…2005) and dendrogram-based indices (Petchey & Gaston 2002), have also been used extensively, exhibiting both effects on ecosystem processes (Díaz et al. 2007; Klumpp & Soussana 2009; Lavorel et al. 2011) as well as responses to environmental variation (Flynn et al. 2009; Mason et al. 2012).”
Contrasting effects of productivity and disturbance on plant functional diversity at local and metacommunity scales (2013, background): “In addition, Mason et al. (2012) found convergence of leaf traits with decreasing soil fertility (i.e. total phosphorus concentration), while Spasojevic & Suding (2012) observed greater plant functional diversity at both low and high soil resource availability, although for different functional…”
Contrasting effects of plant inter‐ and intraspecific variation on community‐level trait measures along an environmental gradient (2013, unknown): “Nonweighted average trait values for each trait in each plot were calculated as the mean of all collected species, including all dominant and subordinate species but excluding rare species (Mason et al. 2012).”
Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland (2012, unknown): “Schamp, Chau & Aarssen 2008) and often contradictory results (e.g. Weiher, Clarke & Keddy 1998; Pakeman, Lennon & Brooker 2011; Mason et al. 2012).”