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Interaction of seed dispersal and environmental filtering affects woody encroachment patterns in coastal grassland [PDF]

Ecosphere, 2019
Encroachment of woody plants into grasslands has occurred worldwide and includes coastal ecosystems. This conversion process is mediated by seed dispersal patterns, environmental filtering, and biotic interactions.
Natasha N. Woods, Benjamin L. Dows, Evan B. Goldstein, Laura J. Moore, Donald R. Young, Julie C. Zinnert   +5 more
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Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands. [PDF]

J Ecol, 2017
Summary The environmental filtering hypothesis predicts that the abiotic environment selects species with similar trait values within communities. Testing this hypothesis along multiple – and interacting – gradients of climate and soil variables constitutes a great opportunity to better understand and predict the responses of plant communities to ...
Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Gross N, Maestre FT, Maire V, de Bello F, Fonseca CR, Kattge J, Valencia E, Leps J, Liancourt P.   +9 more
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Environmental filtering, spatial processes and biotic interactions jointly shape different traits communities of stream macroinvertebrates

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
The metacommunity concept has been widely used to explain the biodiversity patterns at various scales. It considers the influences of both local (e.g., environmental filtering and biotic interactions) and regional processes (e.g., dispersal limitation ...
Guohao Liu, Guohao Liu, Zongwei Lin, Zongwei Lin, Xinxin Qi, Xinxin Qi, Yixia Wang, Yixia Wang, Yaochun Wang, Yaochun Wang, Wanxiang Jiang, Fengzhi He, Fengzhi He, Naicheng Wu, Naicheng Wu   +14 more
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Slope position- mediated soil environmental filtering drives plant community assembly processes in hilly shrublands of Guilin, China. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci, 2022
Background and aims A major goal of community ecology focuses on trying to understand how environmental filter on plant functional traits drive plant community assembly. However, slopes positions- mediated soil environmental factors on community-weighted
Chen K, Pan Y, Li Y, Cheng J, Lin H, Zhuo W, He Y, Fang Y, Jiang Y.   +8 more
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Environmental Filtering by pH and Salinity Jointly Drives Prokaryotic Community Assembly in Coastal Wetland Sediments

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Understanding the microbial community assembly is an essential topic in microbial ecology. Coastal wetlands are an important blue carbon sink, where microbes play a key role in biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and energy transformation.
Huang Yu, Qiuping Zhong, Yisheng Peng, Xiafei Zheng, Fanshu Xiao, Bo Wu, Xiaoli Yu, Zhiwen Luo, Longfei Shu, Cheng Wang, Qingyun Yan, Zhili He, Zhili He   +12 more
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Deforestation strengthens environmental filtering and competitive exclusion in Neotropical streams and rivers. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2023
Understanding how anthropization impacts the assembly of species onto communities is pivotal to go beyond the observation of biodiversity changes and reveal how disturbances affect the environmental and biotic processes shaping biodiversity.
Cantera I, Jézéquel C, Dejean T, Murienne J, Vigouroux R, Valentini A, Brosse S.   +6 more
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Environmental filtering rather than dispersal limitation dominated plant community assembly in the Zoige Plateau. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2022
Identifying the mechanisms that underlie the assembly of plant communities is critical to the conservation of terrestrial biodiversity. However, it is seldom measured or quantified how much deterministic versus stochastic processes contribute to ...
Yang J, Su P, Zhou Z, Shi R, Ding X.
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Environmental Filtering Influences Functional Community Assembly of Epibenthic Communities

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Community assembly theory states that species assemble non-randomly as a result of dispersal limitation, biotic interactions, and environmental filtering.
Lauren Sutton, Franz J. Mueter, Bodil A. Bluhm, Katrin Iken   +3 more
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Strong Environmental Filtering Based on Hydraulic Traits Occurring in the Lower Water Availability of Temperate Forest Communities [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
The trait-based approaches have made progress in understanding the community assembly process. Here, we explore the key traits that may shape community assembly patterns of the same community type but within different water availabilities.
Jiale Zhao, Yuhan Zhang, Jinshi Xu, Jinshi Xu, Yongfu Chai, Peiliang Liu, Ying Cao, Cunxia Li, Qiulong Yin, Jiangang Zhu, Ming Yue, Ming Yue   +11 more
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The primacy of species turnover over intraspecific variation in the environmental filtering of understory ferns [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science
IntroductionQuantifying community-level trait shifts, driven by species turnover and intraspecific trait variation (ITV), is essential for understanding environmental filtering and elucidating community assembly and species coexistence.
Yuhan Zhou, Zhenzhen Zhang, Zhenzhen Zhang, Heming Liu, Shan Jiang, Zemei Zheng, Guochun Shen, Xihua Wang, Qingsong Yang   +8 more
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