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

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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Stream diatom assemblages in an Arctic catchment: diversity and relationship to ecosystem-scale primary production

Arctic Science, 2021
We quantified benthic diatom diversity in streams in the Miellajokka catchment, about 200 km north of the Arctic circle in Sweden. Beta diversity among sites was related to local-scale environmental heterogeneity (occurring on the order of 1 km or less),
Breena Riley, David Seekell
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Regionally Varying Habitat Relationships in Lichens: The Concept and Evidence with an Emphasis on North-Temperate Ecosystems

Journal of Fungi, 2023
Habitat ecology of lichens (lichen-forming fungi) involves diverse adaptations to stressful environments where lichens use specific habitat conditions.
Asko Lõhmus, Jurga Motiejūnaitė, Piret Lõhmus   +2 more
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Effects of abiotic heterogeneity on species densities and interaction strengths lead to different spatial biodiversity patterns

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
During community assembly, abiotic factors can influence species at multiple stages during their life history, for example by affecting early settlement or establishment probabilities and thus initial densities (route 1: abiotic effects on density), or ...
Samantha A. Catella, Samantha A. Catella, Karen C. Abbott   +2 more
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Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity Revealed by a Two-Scale Analysis of Species Functional Uniqueness vs. Redundancy

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Urbanization is one of the most intensive and rapid human-driven factors that threat biodiversity. Finding an indicator of species community responses to urbanization is crucial for predicting the consequences of anthropogenic land cover changes.
Anna Kondratyeva, Anna Kondratyeva, Sonja Knapp, Sonja Knapp, Walter Durka, Walter Durka, Ingolf Kühn, Ingolf Kühn, Ingolf Kühn, Jeanne Vallet, Nathalie Machon, Gabrielle Martin, Eric Motard, Philippe Grandcolas, Sandrine Pavoine   +14 more
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Linking process to pattern in community assembly in dry evergreen Afromontane forest of Hararghe highland, Southeast Ethiopia

European Journal of Ecology, 2023
Many scholars have attempted to identify the role of deterministic and stochastic processes in community assembly, but there is no consensus on which processes dominate and at what spatial scales they occur. To shed light on this issue, we tested two non-
Zebene Asfaw, Mengistu Teshome Wondimu, Muktar Mohammed Yusuf   +2 more
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