Results 21 to 30 of about 4,516,586 (256)

Species coexistence in a changing world. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci, 2015
The consequences of global change for the maintenance of species diversity will depend on the sum of each species responses to the environment and on the interactions among them. A wide ecological literature supports that these species-specific responses
Valladares F, Bastias CC, Godoy O, Granda E, Escudero A.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Positive density dependence acting on mortality can help maintain species-rich communities

eLife, 2020
Conspecific negative density dependence is ubiquitous and has long been recognized as an important factor favoring the coexistence of competing species at local scale.
Thomas G Aubier
doaj   +1 more source

Modelling ecological communities when composition is manipulated experimentally

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
In an experimental setting, the composition of ecological communities can be manipulated directly. Starting from a pool of n species, it is possible to co‐culture species in different combinations, ranging from monocultures, to pairs, and all the way up ...
Abigail Skwara, Paula Lemos‐Costa, Zachary R. Miller, Stefano Allesina   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phenotypic plasticity promotes species coexistence.

, 2022
Ecological explanations for species coexistence assume that species' traits, and therefore the differences between species, are fixed on short timescales.
Hart, Simon P, Simon P. Hart, Jonathan M. Levine, Levine, Jonathan M, Hess, Cyrill, Turcotte, Martin M, Cyrill Hess, Martin M. Turcotte   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Soil vs. canopy seed storage and plant species coexistence in species-rich Australian shrublands [PDF]

, 2007
The fire-prone shrublands of southwestern Australia are renowned for their high plant species diversity and prominence of canopy seed storage (serotiny).
Johnson, N., N. J. Enright, Enright, N.J., B. P. Miller, Enright, Neal, E. Mosner, Lamont, B.B., Mosner, E., Lamont, Byron, Miller, B.P., Miller, Ben, N. Johnson, Johnson, Nicole, Byron B. Lamont, Lamont, Byron B. (Dr.), Enright, N. J., Miller, B. P., Mosner, Eva (Dr. rer. nat.)   +17 more
core   +1 more source

Species-specific traits plus stabilizing processes best explain coexistence in biodiverse fire-prone plant communities [PDF]

, 2013
Coexistence in fire-prone Mediterranean-type shrublands has been explored in the past using both neutral and niche-based models. However, distinct differences between plant functional types (PFTs), such as fire-killed vs resprouting responses to fire ...
Reineking Björn, Enright, N.J., Jürgen Groeneveld, Enright, Neal, Björn Reineking (113977), Byron B Lamont, Lamont, Byron, Reineking, B., Frank, K., Byron B. Lamont (296799), George L W Perry, Reineking, Bjorn, Neal J. Enright (296801), Karin Frank (211485), Groeneveld, Jurgen, Neal J Enright, Lamont Byron B., Jürgen Groeneveld (416288), George L. W. Perry (416289), Frank Karin, Groeneveld Jürgen, Perry, G.L.W., Perry, George, Lamont, B.B., Perry George L. W., Björn Reineking, Karin Frank, Perry, G., Enright Neal J., Groeneveld, J., Frank, Karin   +30 more
core   +1 more source

Microbiomes Reduce Their Host’s Sensitivity to Interspecific Interactions

mBio, 2020
Bacteria associated with eukaryotic hosts can affect host fitness and trophic interactions between eukaryotes, but the extent to which bacteria influence the eukaryotic species interactions within trophic levels that modulate biodiversity and species ...
Sara L. Jackrel, Kathryn C. Schmidt, Bradley J. Cardinale, Vincent J. Denef   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life-cycle switching and coexistence of species with no niche differentiation. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
The increasing evidence of coexistence of cryptic species with no recognized niche differentiation has called attention to mechanisms reducing competition that are not based on niche-differentiation.
Javier Montero-Pau, Manuel Serra
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial mechanisms promoting plant coexistence. the role of dispersal and competition [PDF]

, 2009
One of the great challenges in ecology is to explain how large numbers of plant species are able to coexist in natural communities. The role of spatial structure for maintaining plant coexistence has so far mainly been explored by theory.
Vogt, Deborah Ruth
core   +1 more source

Niche specialization and community niche space increase with species richness in filter‐feeder assemblages

Ecosphere, 2023
Ecological theory posits that higher species richness should be associated with greater exploitation of resources and niche packing resulting from either increasing species niche overlap or specialization of species' niches.
Irene Sánchez González, Garrett W. Hopper, Jamie R. Bucholz, Megan E. Kubala, Jeffrey D. Lozier, Carla L. Atkinson   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source