The assembly of tropical tree communities – the advances and shortcomings of phylogenetic and functional trait analyses

Ecography - Tập 36 Số 3 - Trang 264-276 - 2013
Nathan G. Swenson1
1Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA,

Tóm tắt

Tropical tree communities present one of the most challenging systems for studying the processes underlying community assembly. Most community assembly hypotheses consider the relative importance of the ecological similarity of co‐occurring species. Quantifying this similarity is a daunting and potentially impossible task in species‐rich assemblages. During the past decade tropical tree ecologists have increasingly utilized phylogenetic trees and functional traits to estimate the ecological similarity of species in order to test mechanistic community assembly hypotheses. A large amount of work has resulted with many important advances having been made along the way. That said, there are still many outstanding challenges facing those utilizing phylogenetic and functional trait approaches to study community assembly. Here I review the conceptual background, major advances and major remaining challenges in phylogenetic‐ and trait‐based approaches to community ecology with a specific focus on tropical trees. I argue that both approaches tremendously improve our understanding of tropical tree community ecology, but neither approach has fully reached its potential thus far.

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