期刊
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
卷 223, 期 1, 页码 366-376出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15774
关键词
canopy-recruit interactions; community compensatory trends; ecological networks; facilitation networks; phylogenetic distance; plant-plant interactions; recruitment networks; replacement dynamics
资金
- project COEXMED from the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [CGL2012-36776]
- project COEXMED II from the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [CGL2015-69118-C2-1-P]
- FEDER funds from the EU
Established plants can affect the recruitment of young plants, filtering out some and allowing the recruitment of others, with profound effects on plant community dynamics. Recruitment networks (RNs) depict which species recruit under which others. We investigated whether species abundance and phylogenetic distance explain the structure of RNs across communities. We estimated the frequency of canopy-recruit interactions among woody plants in 10 forest assemblages to describe their RNs. For each RN, we determined the functional form (linear, power or exponential) best describing the relationship of interaction frequency with three predictors: canopy species abundance, recruit species abundance and phylogenetic distance. We fitted models with all combinations of predictor variables, from which we simulated RNs. The best functional form of each predictor was the same in most communities (linear for canopy species abundance, power for recruit species abundance and exponential for phylogenetic distance). The model including all predictor variables was consistently the best in explaining interaction frequency and showed the best performance in predicting RN structure. Our results suggest that mechanisms related to species abundance are necessary but insufficient to explain the assembly of RNs. Evolutionary processes affecting phylogenetic divergence are critical determinants of RN structure.
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