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ecology of differences: assessing community assembly with trait and evolutionary distances

Ecology letters, 2013-10, Vol.16 (10), p.1234-1244 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS ;2015 INIST-CNRS ;2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS. ;Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 1461-023X ;EISSN: 1461-0248 ;DOI: 10.1111/ele.12161 ;PMID: 23910526

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Title:
ecology of differences: assessing community assembly with trait and evolutionary distances
Author: Cadotte, Marc ; Albert, Cecile H ; Walker, Steve C ; Mooers, Arne
Mooers, Arne ; Mooers, Arne
Subjects: alpine plants ; Animal and plant ecology ; Animal, plant and microbial ecology ; Biodiversity ; Biodiversity and Ecology ; biodiversity-ecosystem function ; Biological and medical sciences ; Biological Evolution ; community assembly ; Community ecology ; ecological gradients ; Ecology - methods ; Ecosystem ; Environmental Sciences ; functional diversity ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; General aspects ; habitats ; Life Sciences ; Models, Biological ; null models ; phylogenetic community ecology ; phylogenetic diversity ; Phylogenetics ; phylogeny ; plant communities ; species diversity ; Synecology ; trait divergence ; trait-based ecology ; traitgram
Is Part Of: Ecology letters, 2013-10, Vol.16 (10), p.1234-1244
Description: Species enter and persist in local communities because of their ecological fit to local conditions, and recently, ecologists have moved from measuring diversity as species richness and evenness, to using measures that reflect species ecological differences. There are two principal approaches for quantifying species ecological differences: functional (trait‐based) and phylogenetic pairwise distances between species. Both approaches have produced new ecological insights, yet at the same time methodological issues and assumptions limit them. Traits and phylogeny may provide different, and perhaps complementary, information about species' differences. To adequately test assembly hypotheses, a framework integrating the information provided by traits and phylogenies is required. We propose an intuitive measure for combining functional and phylogenetic pairwise distances, which provides a useful way to assess how functional and phylogenetic distances contribute to understanding patterns of community assembly. Here, we show that both traits and phylogeny inform community assembly patterns in alpine plant communities across an elevation gradient, because they represent complementary information. Differences in historical selection pressures have produced variation in the strength of the trait‐phylogeny correlation, and as such, integrating traits and phylogeny can enhance the ability to detect assembly patterns across habitats or environmental gradients.
Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1461-023X
EISSN: 1461-0248
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12161
PMID: 23910526
Source: MEDLINE
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ecology of differences: assessing community assembly with trait and evolutionary distances

2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS ;2015 INIST-CNRS ;2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS. ;Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 1461-023X ;EISSN: 1461-0248 ;DOI: 10.1111/ele.12161 ;PMID: 23910526

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