Using trait and phylogenetic diversity to evaluate the generality of the stress‐dominance hypothesis in eastern North American tree communities

Ecography - Tập 37 Số 9 - Trang 814-826 - 2014
Jessica Coyle1, Fletcher W. Halliday1, Bianca Lopez2, Kyle A. Palmquist2, Peter A. Wilfahrt2, Allen H. Hurlbert2,1
1Dept of Biology Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27599‐3280 USA
2Curriculum for the Environment and Ecology Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC 27599‐3275 USA

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The stress‐dominance hypothesis (SDH) is a model of community assembly predicting that the relative importance of environmental filtering increases and competition decreases along a gradient of increasing environmental stress. Tests of the SDH at limited spatial scales have thus far demonstrated equivocal support and no prior study has assessed the generality of the SDH at continental scales. We examined over 53 000 tree communities spanning the eastern United States to determine whether functional trait variation and phylogenetic diversity support the SDH for gradients of water and soil nutrient availability. This analysis incorporated two complementary datasets, those of the U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis National program and the Carolina Vegetation Survey, and was based on three ecologically important traits: leaf nitrogen, seed mass, and wood density. We found that mean trait values were weakly correlated with water and soil nutrient availability, but that trait diversity did not vary consistently along either gradient. This did not conform to trait variation expected under the SDH and instead suggested that environmental filters structure tree communities throughout both gradients, without evidence for an increased role of competition in less stressful environments. Phylogenetic diversity of communities was principally driven by the ratio of angiosperms to gymnosperms and therefore did not exhibit the pattern of variation along stress gradients expected under the SDH. We conclude that the SDH is not a general paradigm for all eastern North American tree communities, although it may operate in certain contexts.

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Ecography

Tập 37 Số 9

814-826

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