Niches versus neutrality: uncovering the drivers of diversity in a species-rich community.
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..., 2011) and more specifically to planktonic species assemblages (Alonso et al., 2006; Pueyo, 2006a,b; Dolan et al., 2007; Vergnon et al., 2009; Irigoien et al., 2011)....
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...Global Ecology and Biogeography, ••, ••–••, © 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd 9 capturing the largest organisms, which are rare in finite volumes, are always problematic (e.g. Vergnon et al., 2009)....
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...These two findings suggest that phytoplankton communities result from a combination of niche and neutral processes, which is in accordance with the patterns found in an exhaustive phytoplankton time-series dataset (Vergnon et al., 2009)....
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...…2006; Chust et al., 2006a), but since then they have also been applied in marine ecology (e.g. Dornelas et al., 2006; Martiny et al., 2011) and more specifically to planktonic species assemblages (Alonso et al., 2006; Pueyo, 2006a,b; Dolan et al., 2007; Vergnon et al., 2009; Irigoien et al., 2011)....
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...All GAM fitting was performed using the R mgcv package (Wood 2006)....
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...Niche-based models assume differences in resource use between species; species thereby avoid competition and are able to coexist (Gause 1934; Hardin 1960; Chesson 2000)....
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...Niche-based models assume differences in resource use between species; species thereby avoid competition and are able to coexist (Gause 1934; Hardin 1960; Chesson 2000)....
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...…a century of research, it is still not understood how species-rich communities are maintained in the face of the theoretical prediction that single-species dominance is more likely than the stable coexistence of numerous species competing for small numbers of common resources (Hutchinson 1961)....
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