Assembly Rules, Null Models, and Trait Dispersion: New Questions from Old Patterns

1995/10/01 by Evan Weiher, Paul A. Keddy · 10 citations
Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Plant and animal studies #Species Distribution and Climate Change

paper · doi:10.2307/3545686

Abstract

... the same environments are repeated in the same region, their selective action upon the plant immigrants leads to an essentially similar flora in each, and a similar flora produces similar reactions. These conditions produce the well known phenomena of plant associations of recognizable extent and their repetition with great fidelity in many areas of the same region, but they also produce the variable vegetation of our sand dunes and small pools, the fragmentary associations of areas of small size, and the broad transition zones where different types of vegetation are mixed. H. A. Gleason (1926)

Citations

• Homage to Santa Rosalia or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?

Cited by

• Niche Breadth: Causes and Consequences for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation
• Species Richness of Parasite Assemblages: Evolution and Patterns
• Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara
• Horizontal Gene Transfer and Genome Rearrangements Shape Bacterial Adaptation for Bioremediation
• The roles of isolation and interspecific interaction in generating the functional diversity of an insular mammal radiation
• Decoupled phylogenetic and functional diversity in European grasslands
• Long‐term seasonal variation in the biological traits of benthic‐macroinvertebrates in two Mediterranean‐climate streams in California, U.S.A.
• Combining Joint Species Distribution Models and multivariate techniques allows understanding biogeographical and micro-habitat community responses
• Restored wetlands are greatly influenced by hydrology and non-native plant invasion
• Linking anthropogenic drivers to fish functional diversity: Implications for sustainable fishery management in Yunnan Highland lakes

Related

• Alternative plant designs: consequences for community assembly and ecosystem functioning
• Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California
• Null Models in Ecology
• Community Assembly, Niche Conservatism, and Adaptive Evolution in Changing Environments
• Unveiling ecological assembly rules from commonalities in trait distributions