Elevational Gradients Impose Dispersal Limitation on Streptomyces [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Dispersal governs microbial biogeography, but the rates and mechanisms of dispersal remain poorly characterized for most microbial taxa. Dispersal limitation is driven by limits on dissemination and establishment, respectively. Elevation gradients create
Janani Hariharan, Daniel H. Buckley
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Distance decay of similarity in fungivorous insect communities: assessing dispersal limitation using genetic data [PDF]
Ecosphere, 2016 We evaluated how dispersal limitation affected spatial variation in the species composition of fungivorous insect communities inhabiting fruiting bodies of bracket fungi on scattered deadwoods.
Takuya Kobayashi, Teiji Sota
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Dispersal limitation dominates the community assembly of abundant and rare fungi in dryland montane forests [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 The assembly mechanisms and drivers of abundant and rare fungi in dryland montane forest soils remain underexplored. Therefore, in this study, we compared the distribution patterns of abundant and rare fungi and explored the factors determining their ...
Jianming Wang +4 more
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Decomposing dispersal limitation: limits on fecundity or seed distribution?
Journal of Ecology, 2011 1.The term 'dispersal limitation' represents two distinct component processes: the number of seeds produced (fecundity) and the spatial pattern of the seed rain (distribution). We present a quantitative evaluation of these component processes of dispersal limitation for a tropical forest tree community. 2.Using a regularly spaced grid of 289 seed traps
Kyle Dexter, Patricia Álvarez-Loayza
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Metacommunity ecology highlights the importance of integrating simultaneously environmental filtering and spatial processes, such as mass effects and dispersal limitation, into investigation of community assembly.
Zhengfei Li +8 more
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Inferring ecological processes from taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional trait β-diversity. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Understanding the influences of dispersal limitation and environmental filtering on the structure of ecological communities is a major challenge in ecology.
James C Stegen, Allen H Hurlbert
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Seed rain and seed bank reveal that seed limitation strongly influences plant community assembly in grasslands. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Dispersal is an important factor in plant community assembly, but assembly studies seldom include information on actual dispersal into communities, i.e. the local propagule pool.
Bryndís Marteinsdóttir
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 IntroductionThe ability of species to colonize newly suitable habitats under rapid climate change can be constrained by migration processes, resulting in a shift of the leading edge lagging behind the ameliorating climate, i.e. migration lag.
Deborah Zani +5 more
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Dispersal Limitations Matter for Microbial Morphospecies [PDF]
Science, 2006 In contrast with macroorganisms, whose geographical ranges are typically restricted, many microbial species appear to have cosmopolitan distributions. This observation has been explained as a consequence of ubiquitous dispersal caused by the enormous population sizes of microbial species.
Telford, Richard J. +2 more
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Local-scale determinants of arboreal spider beta diversity in a temperate forest: roles of tree architecture, spatial distance, and dispersal capacity [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Spiders are a functionally important taxon in forest ecosystems, but the determinants of arboreal spider beta diversity are poorly understood at the local scale.
Qiongdao Zhang +4 more
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