Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assemblyEcology - Tập 93 Số 10 - Trang 2263-2273 - 2012
Francesco de Bello, Jodi N. Price, Tamara Münkemüller, Jaan Liira, Martin Zobel, Wilfried Thuiller, Pille Gerhold, Lars Götzenberger, Sébastien Lavergne, Jan Lepš, Kristjan Zobel, Meelis Pärtel
Functional trait differences among species are increasingly used to infer the effects of biotic and abiotic processes on species coexistence. Commonly, the trait diversity observed within communities is compared to patterns simulated in randomly generated communities based on sampling within a region. The resulting patterns of trait convergence and divergence are assumed to reveal abiotic ...... hiện toàn bộ
Can inducible resistance in plants cause herbivore aggregations? Spatial patterns in an inducible plant/herbivore modelEcology - Tập 96 Số 10 - Trang 2758-2770 - 2015
Kurt E. Anderson, Brian D. Inouye, Nora Underwood
Many theories regarding the evolution of inducible resistance in plants have an implicit spatial component, but most relevant population dynamic studies ignore spatial dynamics. We examined a spatially explicit model of plant inducible resistance and herbivore population dynamics to explore how realistic features of resistance and herbivore responses influence spatial patterning. Both tran...... hiện toàn bộ
The Roles of Compensatory Mortality, Physical Disturbance, and Substrate Retention in the Development and Organization of a Sand‐Influenced, Rocky‐Intertidal CommunityEcology - Tập 63 Số 1 - Trang 135-146 - 1982
Phillip R. Taylor, Mark M. Littler
Manipulative experiments (using fenced exclosures, fence controls, and unmanipulated controls), as well as successional and community structure studies were performed near Dutch Harbor, San Nicolas Island, California to examine the importance of the anemone Anthopleura elegantissima, the sand tube worm Phragmatopoma californica, and macroalgae, in the structure and development of a sand—in...... hiện toàn bộ
Vegetation and Climate Change in Eastern North America Since the Last Glacial MaximumEcology - Tập 72 Số 6 - Trang 2038-2056 - 1991
I. Colin Prentice, Patrick J. Bartlein, Thompson Webb
Response surfaces describing the empirical dependence of surface pollen percentages of 13 taxa on three standard climatic variables (mean July temperature, mean January temperature, and mean annual precipitation) in eastern North America were used to infer past climates from palynological data. Inferred climates at 3000—yr intervals from 18 000 years ago to the present, based on six taxa (...... hiện toàn bộ
A distance‐based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traitsEcology - Tập 91 Số 1 - Trang 299-305 - 2010
Étienne Laliberté, Pierre Legendre
A new framework for measuring functional diversity (FD) from multiple traits has recently been proposed. This framework was mostly limited to quantitative traits without missing values and to situations in which there are more species than traits, although the authors had suggested a way to extend their framework to other trait types. The main purpose of this note is to further develop thi...... hiện toàn bộ