A phylogenetic and trait-based analysis of community assembly in a subtropical forest in central China

被引:19
作者
Zhang, Jiaxin [1 ,2 ]
Swenson, Nathan G. [3 ]
Liu, Jianming [1 ,2 ]
Liu, Mengting [1 ,2 ]
Qiao, Xiujuan [1 ,4 ]
Jiang, Mingxi [1 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Wuhan Bot Garden, Key Lab Aquat Bot & Watershed Ecol, Wuhan 430074, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Maryland, Dept Biol, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[4] Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Conservat Biol, Core Bot Gardens, Wuhan, Peoples R China
来源
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION | 2020年 / 10卷 / 15期
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
BGDS forest dynamic plot; community assembly; functional traits; null models; phylogenetic structure; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; TROPICAL TREE COMMUNITY; LIMITING SIMILARITY; SPATIAL SCALES; DIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; COEXISTENCE; MECHANISMS; COMPETITION; SIGNAL;
D O I
10.1002/ece3.6465
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
Despite several decades of study in community ecology, the relative importance of the ecological processes that determine species co-occurrence across spatial scales remains uncertain. Some of this uncertainty may be reduced by studying the scale dependency of community assembly in the light of environmental variation. Phylogenetic information and functional trait information are often used to provide potentially valuable insights into the drivers of community assembly. Here, we combined phylogenetic and trait-based tests to gain insights into community processes at four spatial scales in a large stem-mapped subtropical forest dynamics plot in central China. We found that all of the six leaf economic traits measured in this study had weak, but significant, phylogenetic signal. Nonrandom phylogenetic and trait-based patterns associated with topographic variables indicate that deterministic processes tend to dominate community assembly in this plot. Specifically, we found that, on average, co-occurring species were more phylogenetically and functionally similar than expected throughout the plot at most spatial scales and assemblages of less similar than expected species could only be found on finer spatial scales. In sum, our results suggest that the trait-based effects on community assembly change with spatial scale in a predictable manner and the association of these patterns with topographic variables, indicates the importance of deterministic processes in community assembly relatively to random processes.
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页码:8091 / 8104
页数:14
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