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Understanding community assembly rules in managed floodplain food webs
Ecosphere, 2021 Community assembly has been an important topic in ecological research and theory for over a century. Recently, restoration ecologists have emphasized the use of community assembly rules, such as environmental filtering, to better inform management ...
Nicholas J. Corline +4 more
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A Roadmap for Sustainable Disease, Pest, and Weed Management
Biology and Life Sciences Forum, 2023 Effective disease, pest, and weed control are essential for achieving sustainable agricultural practices. The ever-growing global population, coupled with the increasing demand for food, poses a significant challenge to agriculture systems globally.
Frank Yeboah Adusei +2 more
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Plant Community Assembly [PDF]
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2014 In graduate school in the 1970s, discussions of Hutchinson’s multivariate niche (1957) and the role of competitive exclusion in structuring communities provided exciting new insights into patterns of community assembly. At the same time, however, I was immersed in the literature of plant community ecology and building my own impressions of tropical and
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Experimental salt marsh islands: a model system for novel metacommunity experiments [PDF]
, 2017 Shallow tidal coasts are characterised by shifting tidal flats and emerging or eroding islands above the high tide line. Salt marsh vegetation colonising new habitats distant from existing marshes are an ideal model to investigate metacommunity theory ...
Balke, Thorsten +8 more
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Continuous assembly required: Perpetual species turnover in two‐trophic‐level ecosystems
Ecosphere, 2023 Community assembly is often treated as deterministic, converging on one or at most a few possible stable endpoints. However, in nature, we typically observe continuous change in community composition, which is often ascribed to environmental change.
Jurg W. Spaak +2 more
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Reserve Size And Fragmentation Alter Community Assembly, Diversity, And Dynamics [PDF]
, 2013 Researchers have disputed whether a single large habitat reserve will support more species than many small reserves. However, relatively little is known from a theoretical perspective about how reserve size affects competitive communities structured by ...
Keitt, Timothy H., Lasky, Jesse R.
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Species assembly in model ecosystems, I: Analysis of the population model and the invasion dynamics [PDF]
, 2010 Recently we have introduced a simplified model of ecosystem assembly (Capitan et al., 2009) for which we are able to map out all assembly pathways generated by external invasions in an exact manner. In this paper we provide a deeper analysis of the model,
Alonso +46 more
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The role of active movement in fungal ecology and community assembly [PDF]
, 2019 Movement ecology aims to provide common terminology and an integrative framework of movement research across all groups of organisms. Yet such work has focused on unitary organisms so far, and thus the important group of filamentous fungi has not been ...
Aguilar-Trigueros, Carlos A. +4 more
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Historical Assembly of Andean Tree Communities
Plants, 2023 Patterns of species diversity have been associated with changes in climate across latitude and elevation. However, the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying these relationships are still actively debated. Here, we present a complementary view of the well-known tropical niche conservatism (TNC) hypothesis, termed the multiple zones of origin
Sebastián González-Caro +23 more
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Functional attractors in microbial community assembly
Cell Systems, 2022 For microbiome biology to become a more predictive science, we must identify which descriptive features of microbial communities are reproducible and predictable, which are not, and why. We address this question by experimentally studying parallelism and convergence in microbial community assembly in replicate glucose-limited habitats.
Estrela, Sylvie +8 more
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