Detangling the Effects of Environmental Filtering and Dispersal Limitation on Aggregated Distributions of Tree and Shrub Species: Life Stage Matters. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The pervasive pattern of aggregated tree distributions in natural communities is commonly explained by the joint effect of two clustering processes: environmental filtering and dispersal limitation, yet little consensus remains on the relative importance
Qing-Song Yang +7 more
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Immigration, local dispersal limitation, and the repeatability of community composition under neutral and niche dynamics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Repeatability of community composition has been a critical aspect for community structure, which is closely associated with community stability, predictability, conservation biology and ecological restoration.
Dexiecuo Ai +3 more
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Robustness of close‐kin mark–recapture estimators to dispersal limitation and spatially varying sampling probabilities [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Close‐kin mark–recapture (CKMR) is a method for estimating abundance and vital rates from kinship relationships observed in genetic samples. CKMR inference only requires animals to be sampled once (e.g., lethally), potentially widening the scope of ...
Paul B. Conn +3 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
John Terborgh +2 more
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Historical Contingency Drives Freshwater Microbial Community Assembly Across Successional Time [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMicrobial community assembly is governed by the interplay among historical contingency, environmental selection, and dispersal, yet their relative importance and temporal dynamics remain poorly resolved, particularly in freshwater ecosystems.
Fenguo Zhang +4 more
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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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Changes in tree community structure in defaunated forests are not driven only by dispersal limitation. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2020 1. Bushmeat hunting has reduced population sizes of large frugivorous vertebrates throughout the tropics, thereby reducing the dispersal of seeds. This is believed to affect tree population dynamics, and therefore community composition, because the seed ...
Hazelwood K +5 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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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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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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