作者
Zoltán Botta‐Dukát, Bálint Czúcz
发表日期
2016/1
期刊
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
卷号
7
期号
1
页码范围
114-126
简介
- The quest for ‘assembly rules’, that is the processes shaping the species composition of communities, is a central issue in community ecology. Nevertheless, so far there is no general agreement on a framework to detect assembly rules in real‐life data: several key elements are still missing or heavily disputed, including the choice of the appropriate test statistic (e.g. functional diversity index) and randomization strategy for each major assembly process.
- Simulation studies based on artificial communities can help to explore the usefulness of different approaches in detecting assembly rules. Nevertheless, the currently dominant approach to simulate artificial communities (i.e. selecting species from a pool based solely on trait values) oversimplifies the complex processes involved in community assembly and thus fails to produce realistic patterns. Consequently, its value for testing methodologies is seriously limited …
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Z Botta‐Dukát, B Czúcz - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2016