Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long‐term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity
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...…and high tissue longevity, which excel at tolerating low resources and/or suppressing resource supply to neighbours, are successful under low nutrient supply (Tilman 1987; Tilman & Wedin 1991; Aerts & Chapin 2000; Craine et al. 2002; Craine 2009; Holdaway et al. 2011; Mason et al. 2012)....
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...Similarly, Mason et al. (2012) showed that increasing soil P in a New Zealand temperate forest favoured species with high leaf N and P. Spatial heterogeneity created by patchy disturbances can also interact with trait variation....
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...Functional richness should increase when niche complementarity enhances probabilities of species occurrence (Mason et al. 2012)....
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...…that functional diversity should decline with stress assumes facilitation effectswill beminor comparedwith the influence of environmental filtering in stressed communities and is based on field evidence from plant communities occurring along a soil phosphorus gradient (Mason et al. 2012)....
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...There is recent field evidence for this in plant communities (Mason et al. 2012)....
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...There is a good precedent for this based on field studies showing that single traits may simultaneously influence species’ occurrences along stress gradients as well as influencing competitive interactions between species at the local community level (Cornwell & Ackerly 2009; Mason et al. 2012)....
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...Functional divergence should increase when niche complementarity enhances species’ relative abundances (Mason et al. 2012)....
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...Schamp, Chau & Aarssen 2008) and often contradictory results (e.g. Weiher, Clarke & Keddy 1998; Pakeman, Lennon & Brooker 2011; Mason et al. 2012)....
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...Despite the allure of these ideas, previous efforts for detecting trait assembly patterns have yielded sometimes inconclusive (e.g. Schamp, Chau & Aarssen 2008) and often contradictory results (e.g. Weiher, Clarke & Keddy 1998; Pakeman, Lennon & Brooker 2011; Mason et al. 2012)....
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...Nonweighted average trait values for each trait in each plot were calculated as the mean of all collected species, including all dominant and subordinate species but excluding rare species (Mason et al. 2012)....
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...In all analyses, evidence for nonlinear (logarithmic, quadratic and power) relationships was assessed using Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) weights (Burnham & Anderson 2002)....
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...The linear model was rejected if one of the nonlinear models received a weight of > 0.9 (which would indicate a >90% chance that the nonlinear model was the most parsimonious, Burnham & Anderson 2002)....
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...We chose to analyse patterns for four traits (Leaf N, Leaf P, thickness and density) as they are closely aligned to the global leaf economics spectrum (Wright et al. 2004) and thus are reliable indicators of plant resource-use strategy....
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...Changes in functional diversity for key traits linked to plant resource-use strategy (Grime 1974; Wright et al. 2004) along ecological gradients can reveal shifts in species coexistence*Correspondence author....
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...We explore shifts in resource-use strategy by examining changes in species means for foliar traits (leaf N and P, leaf thickness and density) used to contrast fast and leaky resource acquirers with slow and tight resource retainers (Cornelissen et al. 2003; Diaz et al. 2004; Wright et al. 2004)....
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