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Environmental Filtering Drives the Assembly of Habitat Generalists and Specialists in the Coastal Sand Microbial Communities of Southern China

Microorganisms, 2019
Coastal sands harbor diverse microbial assemblages that play a critical role in the biogeochemical cycling of beach ecosystems. However, little is known about the relative importance of the different ecological processes underlying the assembly of ...
Anyi Hu, Hongjie Wang, Meixian Cao, Azhar Rashid, Mingfeng Li, Chang-Ping Yu   +5 more
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Effects of Habitat and Competition on Niche Partitioning and Community Structure in Neotropical Ants

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Competition for limited resources can yield two contrasting outcomes in community structure, namely, either (i) dominance of most competitive species (with functional convergence of the traits conferring this ability), or (ii) niche partitioning of ...
Alex Salas-López, Cyrille Violle, François Munoz, Florian Menzel, Jérôme Orivel   +4 more
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Mechanisms for the construction of plant communities in the Gurbantunggut Desert, China

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Analysis of the phylogenetic structure of a community based on the phylogenetic relationships among species in the community can reflect the ecological process of community composition and determine the mechanism of plant community construction.
Kefan Zhao, Yong Zeng, Yonghui Wang, Xuefeng Yang, Peng Wang, Yuejia Liang, Jia He   +6 more
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Lack of Phylogenetic Differences in Ectomycorrhizal Fungi among Distinct Mediterranean Pine Forest Habitats

Journal of Fungi, 2021
Understanding whether the occurrences of ectomycorrhizal species in a given tree host are phylogenetically determined can help in assessing different conservational needs for each fungal species.
Irene Adamo, Carles Castaño, José Antonio Bonet, Carlos Colinas, Juan Martínez de Aragón, Josu G. Alday   +5 more
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Habitat filtering drives the local distribution of congeneric species in a Brazilian white‐sand flooded tropical forest

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
The investigation of ecological processes that maintain species coexistence is revealing in naturally disturbed environments such as the white‐sand tropical forest, which is subject to periodic flooding that might pose strong habitat filtering to tree ...
Kelly F. O. Ribeiro, Valéria F. Martins, Thorsten Wiegand, Flavio A. M. Santos   +3 more
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Effects of environmental changes on interspecific interactions of three sympatric pheasants – A study based on long-term monitoring data

Ecological Indicators, 2022
As the lack of a general understanding of how interspecific interactions change along varying environmental gradients exists, predicting the response of ecological communities to habitat and climate change becomes an arduous task.
Taxing Zhang, Yuanzi Xili, Jianghong Ran, Shenglin Feng, Jianwu Chen, Benping Chen   +5 more
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Beyond neutrality: adding habitat filtering to neutral models

Ecological Processes, 2020
Background Understanding the processes that structure species is one of the primary focuses in community ecology. Hubbell’s neutral model shows stochastic processes alone can describe the two macro-ecological patterns, species richness and species-area ...
Wasana Abeysinghe, Ruwan Punchi-Manage
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Exploring Assembly Trajectories of Abandoned Grasslands in Response to 10 Years of Mowing in Sub-Mediterranean Context

Land, 2021
Abandoned semi-natural grasslands are characterized by lower plant diversity as a consequence of tall grasses spreading. Mowing is a widely used restoration practice, but its effects to maintain the restored diversity over time is poorly investigated in ...
Alessandro Bricca, Federico Maria Tardella, Arianna Ferrara, Tiziana Panichella, Andrea Catorci   +4 more
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Climate and fragment area jointly affect the annual dynamics of seedlings in different functional groups in the Thousand Island Lake

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
Habitat fragmentation and climate change are the two main threats to global biodiversity. Understanding their combined impact on plant community regeneration is vital for predicting future forest structure and conserving biodiversity.
Yuping Zhong, Yuchen Zhong, Yuchen Zhong, Yuchu Xie, Yanping Lei, Boliang Wei, Boliang Wei, Jinliang Liu, Mingjian Yu   +8 more
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A New Method to Correct for Habitat Filtering in Microbial Correlation Networks

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
Amplicon sequencing of 16S, ITS, and 18S regions of microbial genomes is a commonly used first step toward understanding microbial communities of interest for human health, agriculture, and the environment.
Vanessa Brisson, Vanessa Brisson, Vanessa Brisson, Jennifer Schmidt, Trent R. Northen, Trent R. Northen, John P. Vogel, John P. Vogel, John P. Vogel, Amélie Gaudin, Amélie Gaudin   +10 more
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