The ecological causes of functional distinctiveness in communities

F Munoz, CA Klausmeier, P Gaüzère… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent work has shown that evaluating functional trait distinctiveness, the average trait
distance of a species to other species in a community offers promising insights into …

Refocusing the microbial rare biosphere concept through a functional lens

E Litchman, S Villéger, L Zinger, JC Auguet… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
The influential concept of the rare biosphere in microbial ecology has underscored the
importance of taxa occurring at low abundances yet potentially playing key roles in …

Predict first–assemble later versus assemble first–predict later: Revisiting the dilemma for functional biogeography

G Deschamps, G Poggiato, P Brun… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting community‐level trait indices, such as community‐weighted mean or functional
dispersion, in space or time, is crucial, as they are markers of ecosystem functions, proxies …

Beyond trait distances: Functional distinctiveness captures the outcome of plant competition

L Mahaut, C Violle, A Shihan, R Pélissier… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Functional trait distances between coexisting organisms reflect not only complementarity in
the way they use resources, but also differences in their competitive abilities. Accordingly …

Patterns of Grewia (Malvaceae) diversity across geographical scales in Africa and Madagascar

N Karimi, MM Hanes - Annals of Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Quantifying spatial species richness is useful to describe
biodiversity patterns across broad geographical areas, especially in large, poorly known …

Disentangling the effects of abiotic and biotic processes on non-indigenous species dominance

A Vivó-Pons, PD van Denderen, L Flensborg… - NeoBiota, 2024 - orbit.dtu.dk
Relatively little attention has been paid to the underlying mechanisms determining the
dominance of non-indigenous species (NIS) once established, despite being regarded as a …

Functional Traits Affect the Contribution of Individual Species to Beta Diversity in the Tropical Karst Seasonal Rainforest of South China

Y Wang, B Wang, J Li, F Lu, W Tao, D Li, Y Guo… - Forests, 2024 - mdpi.com
In a community, due to the different characteristics of each species, their contributions to
community beta diversity may vary. Quantifying the contribution of each species to overall …

Island area, isolation and climate effects upon flower traits in a megadiverse archipelago

LA Trethowan, L Jennings, G Bramley… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Flower traits are critical to the mutualistic networks that underpin ecosystem function.
However, the broad‐scale drivers of flower traits are unclear. Using the megadiverse islands …

A trait‐based approach to assess niche overlap and functional distinctiveness between non‐indigenous and native species

A Vivó‐Pons, M Blomqvist, A Törnroos… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of the community assembly processes acting on non‐indigenous species
(NIS), as well as the relationship with native species is limited, especially in marine …

Tracking succession by means of 3D scans of plant communities in a glacier forefield to infer assembly processes

X He, M Hanusch, L Saueressig, A Schriever, T Seifert… - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In primary successions, assembling plant communities are key for ecosystem functioning
and stability. Often, plant successions are described on a taxonomic, functional and/or …