Niche overlap reveals the effects of competition, disturbance and contrasting assembly processes in experimental grassland communities

By N. Mason, Francesco de Bello, J. Doležal, J. Lepš. 2011

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

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Functional diversity supports the physiological tolerance hypothesis for plant species richness along climatic gradients (2014, background): “This pattern reinforces the importance of considering multiple mechanisms of community assembly (Cornwell & Ackerly 2009; Mouchet et al. 2010; Mason et al. 2011).”
Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long‐term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity (2012, methodology): “…fast-growing angiosperm tree species that exploit canopy gaps (e.g. Melicytus ramiflorus, Violaceae, andCarpodetus serratus, Escalloniaceae) and may persist at relatively high abundance for more than 200 years in the canopy or subcanopy following secondary succession (Mason et al. 2011b).”
Evidence for scale‐ and disturbance‐dependent trait assembly patterns in dry semi‐natural grasslands (2013, methodology): “However, it has also been observed that a lack of biomass removal in grasslands may enhance niche differentiation and promote functional divergence between species in response to greater competition for light (Mason et al. 2011).”
Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands (2013, background): “Habitat filtering and ND are not mutually exclusive, despite their apparent opposite effects on community-level trait distributions (Cornwell & Ackerly 2009; Mason et al. 2011; Maire et al. 2012).”
Grazing‐induced shifts in community functional composition and soil nutrient availability in Tibetan alpine meadows (2016, background): “Species-specific changes in traits due to both phenotypic responses of individual plants and genotypic differentiation following grazing have been well documented (reviewed in Diaz et al. 2007b; Gibson 2009; Mason et al. 2011).”
Changes in assembly rules along a stress gradient from open dry grasslands to wetlands (2016, background): “…can be that different variables were used as proxy of productivity [soil properties (BernardVerdier et al. 2012; Mason et al. 2012), biomass (Mason et al. 2011)] and that in some papers productivity was combined with other factors [with disturbance (Mason et al. 2011; Bernard-Verdier et al.…”
Fertilization decreases species diversity but increases functional diversity: A three-year experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow (2014, background): “…the tendency of species to be functionally different from each other to limit competition between them, will increase because of stronger competition and niche differentiation between persisting species (MacArthur and Levins, 1967; Navas and Violle, 2009; Mouchet et al., 2010; Mason et al., 2011).”
Habitat filtering determines the functional niche occupancy of plant communities worldwide (2018, unknown): “This approach has been applied to quantify niche breadth and niche overlap in onedimensional space (Mason et al., 2011; Mouillot et al., 2005), and was extended to multi- dimensional space by Blonder et al.”
Positive species diversity and above‐ground biomass relationships are ubiquitous across forest strata despite interference from overstorey trees (2017, background): “This was not only true for species groups with overlapping niches, such as woody plants (Mason et al. 2011), but also for herbaceous and non-vascular plants in our analysis.”
Traits Without Borders: Integrating Functional Diversity Across Scales. (2016, methodology): “Using the TPD approach, it is possible to estimate the average, minimum, maximum, and total overlap between the species in a community [17,50,57], or any other scale (see ‘Diversity Between and Across Ecological Units’ section).”
Can limiting similarity increase invasion resistance? A meta‐analysis of experimental studies (2013, background): “However, future studies using these approaches should ensure that functional groups are indeed functional, or even better use functional traits, rather than groups (for some alternative experiment approaches see Mason et al. 2011, Öster and Eriksson 2012).”
Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes (2012, background): “Functional diversity patterns are increasingly being utilized to detect the opposing ‘signatures’ of abiotic environmental filtering and competition in community assembly (Cornwell & Ackerly 2009; Mouchet et al. 2010; Mason et al. 2011).”
A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients (2013, methodology): “Comparing observed values for functional richness with those expected from matrixswap null models that randomize species’ occurrences (Manly & Sanderson 2002) can remove any trivial effects of species richness (Mason et al. 2011a; Richardson et al. 2012).”