The ecology of differences: assessing community assembly with trait and evolutionary distances
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...For example, the potential of the TPD framework to assess community assembly rules or ecosystem functioning can be increased if used in combination with phylogenetic dissimilarities between species, particularly when there are unmeasured and potentially important traits [83]....
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...Classic works sought to explain patterns of diversity in terms of the numbers and distributions of species (species diversity e.g. Andrewartha & Birch 1954; Macarthur & Wilson 1967)....
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...…gradients, species’ niches and ecosystem function, in particular through the recognition of the plant economics spectrum (e.g. Lavorel & Garnier 2002; Westoby et al. 2002; Wright et al. 2004), we lack sufficient information linking traits to community assembly for large numbers of species....
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...Even though for some groups of species, functional traits have been studied extensively, providing links between traits and environmental gradients, species’ niches and ecosystem function, in particular through the recognition of the plant economics spectrum (e.g. Lavorel & Garnier 2002; Westoby et al. 2002; Wright et al. 2004), we lack sufficient information linking traits to community assembly for large numbers of species....
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...Further, different traits may show differing amounts of conservatism and convergence/divergence along phylogenies (Blomberg et al. 2003; Cavender-Bares et al. 2006)....
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...The first approach, which we will not pursue in depth, involves developing methods for scaling branch lengths (e.g. Blomberg et al. 2003) such that phylogenies provide better estimates of the ecological differences between species....
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...Mechanisms influencing patterns of community assembly act on the ecological similarities (or redundancies) and differences (or complementarities) of organisms, and not on the number of species (Weiher & Keddy 1995; Diaz & Cabido 2001; McGill et al. 2006)....
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...In this case, measuring the traits directly is more meaningful since they invoke or point to candidate mechanisms (McGill et al. 2006)....
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