Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants.
Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants.
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DOI：
10.1111/ele.12403
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发表时间：
2015-03
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影响因子：
8.8
通讯作者：
Foster WA
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作者：
Fayle TM;Eggleton P;Manica A;Yusah KM;Foster WA
了解物种如何聚集成群落是生态学的一个关键目标。然而，组装规则很少通过实验进行测试，它们塑造真实的社区的能力也知之甚少。我们调查了一个不同的真菌居住的蚂蚁社区，发现类似大小的物种共同出现的频率低于预期。实验室实验表明，入侵是劝阻存在类似大小的居民种。入侵的可能性较小的大小差异与野生物种共现减少的大小差异相同。最后，我们探讨了我们的实验得出的组装规则是否可以模拟现实的社区。使用大小为基础的物种组装模拟的社区表现出比使用大小无关的组装模拟的野生社区更接近的dilemma，结果是敏感的组合规则。因此，在野生环境中的物种隔离可以由竞争性物种组装驱动，这个过程足以产生观察到的热带附生植物居住的蚂蚁的物种丰度分布。
Understanding how species assemble into communities is a key goal in ecology. However, assembly rules are rarely tested experimentally, and their ability to shape real communities is poorly known. We surveyed a diverse community of epiphyte-dwelling ants and found that similar-sized species co-occurred less often than expected. Laboratory experiments demonstrated that invasion was discouraged by the presence of similarly sized resident species. The size difference for which invasion was less likely was the same as that for which wild species exhibited reduced co-occurrence. Finally we explored whether our experimentally derived assembly rules could simulate realistic communities. Communities simulated using size-based species assembly exhibited diversities closer to wild communities than those simulated using size-independent assembly, with results being sensitive to the combination of rules employed. Hence, species segregation in the wild can be driven by competitive species assembly, and this process is sufficient to generate observed species abundance distributions for tropical epiphyte-dwelling ants.
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影响因子：
5.9
作者：
Fayle, Tom M.;Turner, Edgar C.;Foster, William A.
通讯作者：
Foster, William A.
影响因子：
8.8
作者：
Leibold, Mathew A.;Economo, Evan P.;Peres-Neto, Pedro
通讯作者：
Peres-Neto, Pedro
DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1033107100
发表时间：
2003-07-22
影响因子：
11.1
作者：
Fargione, J;Brown, CS;Tilman, D
通讯作者：
Tilman, D
影响因子：
16.8
作者：
Kikvidze, Zaal;Suzuki, Maki;Brooker, Rob
通讯作者：
Brooker, Rob
影响因子：
8.8
作者：
Fukami, T;Bezemer, TM;van der Putten, WH
通讯作者：
van der Putten, WH