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Assembly archetypes in ecological communities
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2023An instrumental discovery in comparative and developmental biology is the existence of assembly archetypes that synthesize the vast diversity of organisms’ body plans—from legs and wings to human arms—into simple, interpretable and general design principles. Here, we combine a novel mathematical formalism based on category theory with experimental data
Hugo Flores-Arguedas +3 more
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Niche types and community assembly
Ecology Letters, 2023Abstract Studies of niche differentiation and biodiversity often focus on a few niche dimensions due to the methodological challenge of describing hyperdimensional niche space. However, this may limit our understanding of community assembly processes.
John Davison +5 more
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MPowering ecologists: community assembly tools for community assembly rules
Oikos, 2010Null model tests of presence–absence data (‘NMTPAs’) provide important tools for inferring effects of competition, facilitation, habitat filtering, and other ecological processes from observational data. Many NMTPAs have been developed, but they often yield conflicting conclusions when applied to the same data.
Joshua Ladau, Sadie J. Ryan
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Neutral assembly of bacterial communities.
FEMS microbiology ecology, 2007Two recent, independent advances in ecology have generated interest and controversy: the development of neutral community models (NCMs) and the extension of biogeographical relationships into the microbial world. Here these two advances are linked by predicting an observed microbial taxa-volume relationship using an NCM and provide the strongest ...
Woodcock, Stephen +6 more
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A comparison of incremental community assembly with evolutionary community selection
2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB), 2015Given a set of potential species and a replicator dynamic model of their interaction, the community assembly problem seeks the maximal set of species that can co-exist indefinitely without extinction. In this study we compare a standard model, which assembles a community one species at a time, with an evolutionary algorithm that selects sets of species
Daniel A. Ashlock, Meghan Timmins
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Community assembly and dynamics
2006Abstract In Chapter 4, we took a macroecological approach to island biotas: species were treated largely as exchangeable units. Such an approach ultimately has its limits. This chapter is therefore concerned with those aspects of island biogeographic theory dealing with compositional pattern and how it is assembled (mostly) in ecological
Robert J Whittaker +1 more
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MAPPING THE ASSEMBLY OF PROTIST COMMUNITIES IN MICROCOSMS
Ecology, 2003Theoretical models of community assembly predict a variety of possible assembly phenomena, but evidence for them in natural systems is hard to obtain because of problems of temporal scale and replication. We used laboratory experiments to investigate the potential assembly pathways in a small pool of protist species.
Warren, P.H., Law, R., Weatherby, A.J.
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Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2012
This article seeks to bring together studies of community from both the New and Old Worlds and examine their various strengths and weaknesses. Whilst applauding many of the recent developments, particularly the emphasis on communities as the outcome of practice and agency, I suggest that there are three specific difficulties present in the current ...
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This article seeks to bring together studies of community from both the New and Old Worlds and examine their various strengths and weaknesses. Whilst applauding many of the recent developments, particularly the emphasis on communities as the outcome of practice and agency, I suggest that there are three specific difficulties present in the current ...
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Community assembly in marine macrofauna communities
2006A key question in community ecology is whether communities are a natural level of biological organisation, with characteristic emergent properties influenced by evolution and comprising species that have mutually influenced each others evolution, or whether they are simply haphazard collections of species adapted to similar physical conditions.
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