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Environmental Filtering Is a Relic. A Response to Cadotte and Tucker [PDF]
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2017 Cadotte and Tucker, in the recent issue of TREE (pp. 429–437) ask the question whether the concept of environmental filtering should be abandoned. Environmental filtering has been defined as the set of abiotic environmental conditions that select for the establishment of a group of species in a given habitat [1,2].
CARLOS A Aguilar-Trigueros +1 more
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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 ...
Naicheng Wu, Fengzhi He, Wang Yixia
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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.
Zhili He, Longfei Shu, Zhiwen Luo
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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 +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 ScienceIntroductionQuantifying 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 +8 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.
Franz Mueter +2 more
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Environmental filtering and dispersal limitation jointly shaped the taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity of natural forests in southern China [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Aim The mechanisms underlying the maintenance of biodiversity remain to be elucidated. Taxonomic diversity alone remains an unresolved issue, especially in terms of the mechanisms of species co‐existence.
Wei Shi +4 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 +9 more
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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 Woods +2 more
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Environmental filtering and community delineation in the streambed ecotone. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2018 Abstract A current controversy in ecology is whether biological communities are discrete biological entities or simply study units created for convenience; a debate that becomes even more heated when delimiting communities along ecotones.
Peralta-Maraver I +6 more
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