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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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Environment International, 2023 Dustbins function as critical infrastructures for urban sanitation, creating a distinct breeding ground for microbial assemblages. However, there is no information regarding the dynamics of microbial communities and the underlying mechanism for community
Xin-Li An +8 more
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Environmental heterogeneity affects the location of modelled communities along the niche–neutrality continuum [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014 The continuum hypothesis has been proposed as a means to reconcile the contradiction between the niche and neutral theories. While past research has shown that species richness affects the location of communities along the niche–neutrality continuum, there may be extrinsic forces at play as well. We used a spatially explicit continuum model to quantify
Avi, Bar-Massada +2 more
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Towards a unification of niche and neutral models of community ecology [PDF]
, 2018 Abstract Ecological models of community dynamics fall into two main categories. The neutral theory of biodiversity correctly predicts various large-scale ecosystem characteristics such as the species abundance distributions. On a smaller scale, the niche theory of species competition explains population dynamics and interactions between
Laan, Andres, de Polavieja, Gonzalo G.
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Community Assembly in Wastewater-Fed Pilot-Scale Microbial Electrolysis Cells
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2018 The formation of an electrochemically active biofilm is critical to the function of a Microbial Electrolysis Cell (MEC). We used Illumina 16S rDNA sequencing to analyse the formation and composition of anodic biofilms of two pilot-scale MECs, operated in
Sarah E. Cotterill +3 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 For community ecologists, “neutral or not?” is a fundamental question, and thus, rejecting neutrality is an important first step before investigating the deterministic processes underlying community dynamics.
Yayoi Takeuchi +2 more
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Strong neutral spatial effects shape tree species distributions across life stages at multiple scales. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Traditionally, ecologists use lattice (regional summary) count data to simulate tree species distributions to explore species coexistence. However, no previous study has explicitly compared the difference between using lattice count and basal area data ...
Yue-Hua Hu +6 more
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BiologyThe differentiated responses of biological groups to environmental change are central to river ecosystem management; however, the shared and distinct environmental selection processes that shape their spatial patterns remain understudied. We investigated
Yimei Wei +6 more
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A comparison of random draw and locally neutral models for the avifauna of an English woodland
BMC Ecology, 2004 Background Explanations for patterns observed in the structure of local assemblages are frequently sought with reference to interactions between species, and between species and their local environment.
Blackburn Tim M, Dolman Andrew M
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When can species abundance data reveal non-neutrality? [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2015 Species abundance distributions (SAD) are probably ecology's most well-known empirical pattern, and over the last decades many models have been proposed to explain their shape.
Omar Al Hammal +3 more
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