scholarly journals A taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic perspective on the community assembly of passerine birds along an elevational gradient in southwest China

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 2712-2720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuelian He ◽  
Kang Luo ◽  
Calum Brown ◽  
Luxiang Lin
Keyword(s):  
Community Assembly ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Passerine Birds ◽  
Phylogenetic Perspective

scholarly journals Phylogenetic and Functional Traits Verify the Combined Effect of Deterministic and Stochastic Processes in the Community Assembly of Temperate Forests along an Elevational Gradient

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 591
Author(s):  
Wensong Zhou ◽  
Yuxin Zhang ◽  
Shuang Zhang ◽  
Basil N. Yakimov ◽  
Keming Ma
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Processes ◽  
Functional Traits ◽  
Community Assembly ◽  
Woody Plants ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Combined Effect ◽  
Abiotic Environment ◽  
Spatial Factors ◽  
Assembly Mechanism ◽  
Deterministic Processes

Explaining community assembly mechanisms along elevational gradients dominated by deterministic processes or stochastic processes is a pressing challenge. Many studies suggest that phylogenetic and functional diversity are significant indicators of the process. In this study, we analyzed the structure and beta diversity of phylogenetic and functional traits along an elevational gradient and discussed the effects of environmental and spatial factors. We found that the phylogenetic and functional traits showed inconsistent changes, and their variations were closely related to the abiotic environment. The results suggested that the community assembly of woody plants was obviously affected by the combined effect of deterministic processes and the stochastic hypothesis (primarily by the latter). Phylogenetic and functional traits had a certain relationship but changed according to different rules. These results enhance our understanding of the assembly mechanism of forest communities by considering both phylogenetic and functional traits.

scholarly journals Phylogenetic clustering and overdispersion for alpine plants along elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains Region, southwest China

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin-Hui LI ◽  
Xin-Xin ZHU ◽  
Yang NIU ◽  
Hang SUN
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Alpine Plants ◽  
Hengduan Mountains ◽  
Phylogenetic Clustering

scholarly journals Trait variation and functional diversity maintenance of understory herbaceous species coexisting along an elevational gradient in Yulong Mountain, Southwest China

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 303-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yahuang Luo ◽  
Jie Liu ◽  
Shaolin Tan ◽  
Marc W. Cadotte ◽  
Kun Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Herbaceous Species ◽  
Trait Variation ◽  
Diversity Maintenance ◽  
Yulong Mountain

scholarly journals Small mammal species richness and turnover along elevational gradient in Yulong Mountain, Yunnan, Southwest China

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 2545-2558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongzheng Chen ◽  
Xueyou Li ◽  
Wenyu Song ◽  
Quan Li ◽  
Kenneth Onditi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Small Mammal ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Mammal Species ◽  
Yulong Mountain ◽  
Small Mammal Species

Forest community assembly is driven by different strata‐dependent mechanisms along an elevational gradient

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 2174-2187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya‐Huang Luo ◽  
Marc W. Cadotte ◽  
Kevin S. Burgess ◽  
Jie Liu ◽  
Shao‐Lin Tan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Assembly ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Forest Community

scholarly journals Intraspecific trait variability and community assembly in hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) across an elevational gradient in the eastern Himalayas, India

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mansi Mungee ◽  
Ramana Athreya
Keyword(s):  
Community Assembly ◽  
Environmental Gradients ◽  
Species Turnover ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Functional Ecology ◽  
List Type ◽  
Environmental Response ◽  
Trait Variation ◽  
Eastern Himalayas ◽  
Response Traits

AbstractRecent progress in functional ecology has advanced our understanding of the role of intraspecific (ITV) and interspecific (STV) trait variation in community assembly across environmental gradients. Studies on plant communities have generally found STV as the main driver of community trait variation, whereas ITV plays an important role in determining species co-existence and community assembly. However, similar studies of faunal taxa, especially invertebrates, are very few in number.We investigated variation of hawkmoth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) traits along an environmental gradient spanning 2600 m in the eastern Himalayas and its role in community assembly, using the morpho-functional traits of body mass (BM), wing loading (WL) and wing aspect ratio (AR).We employ the recently proposed T-statistics to test for non-random assembly of hawkmoth communities and the relative importance of the two opposing forces for trait divergence (internal filters) and convergence (external filters).Community-wide trait-overlap decreased for all three traits with increasing environmental distance, suggesting the presence of elevation specific optimum morphology (i.e. functional response traits). Community weighted mean of BM and AR increased with elevation. Overall, the variation was dominated by species turnover but ITV accounted for 25%, 23% and <1% variability of BM, WL and AR, respectively. T-statistics, which incorporates ITV, revealed that elevational communities had a non-random trait distribution, and that community assembly was dominated by internal filtering throughout the gradient.This study was carried out using easily measurable morpho-traits obtained from calibrated field images of a large number (3301) of individuals. That these also happened to be important environmental response traits resulted in a significant signal in the metrics that we investigated. Such studies of abundant and hyperdiverse invertebrate groups across large environmental gradients should considerably improve our understanding of community assembly processes.

scholarly journals Beta‐diversity of central European forests decreases along an elevational gradient due to the variation in local community assembly processes

Ecography ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 1038-1048 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Maria Sabatini ◽  
Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro ◽  
Sabina Burrascano ◽  
Andrea Lora ◽  
Milan Chytrý
Keyword(s):  
Community Assembly ◽  
Beta Diversity ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Central European ◽  
European Forests

scholarly journals Trait-Based Community Assembly along an Elevational Gradient in Subalpine Forests: Quantifying the Roles of Environmental Factors in Inter- and Intraspecific Variability

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. e0155749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-Huang Luo ◽  
Jie Liu ◽  
Shao-Lin Tan ◽  
Marc William Cadotte ◽  
Yue-Hua Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Community Assembly ◽  
Intraspecific Variability ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Subalpine Forests

scholarly journals Changes in carbon storages of Fagus forest ecosystems along an elevational gradient on Mt. Fanjingshan in Southwest China

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-149
Author(s):  
Qiong Cai ◽  
Chengjun Ji ◽  
Xuli Zhou ◽  
Helge Bruelheide ◽  
Wenjing Fang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
Forest Ecosystems ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Woody Debris ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Stand Age ◽  
Beech Forests ◽  
C Storage ◽  
C Pools

Abstract Aims There are different components of carbon (C) pools in a natural forest ecosystem: biomass, soil, litter and woody debris. We asked how these pools changed with elevation in one of China’s ecologically important forest ecosystem, i.e. beech (Fagus L., Fagaceae) forests, and what were the underlying driving factors of such variation. Methods The four C pools in nine beech forests were investigated along an elevational gradient (1095–1930 m) on Mt. Fanjingshan in Guizhou Province, Southwest China. Variance partitioning was used to explore the relative effects of stand age, climate and other factors on C storage. In addition, we compared the four C pools to other beech forests in Guizhou Province and worldwide. Important Findings The total C pools of beech forest ecosystems ranged from 190.5 to 504.3 Mg C ha–1, mainly attributed to biomass C (accounting for 33.7–73.9%) and soil C (accounting for 23.9–65.5%). No more than 4% of ecosystem C pools were stored in woody debris (0.05–3.1%) and litter (0.2–0.7%). Ecosystem C storage increased significantly with elevation, where both the biomass and woody debris C pools increased with elevation, while those of litter and soil exhibited no such trend. For the Guizhou beech forests, climate and stand age were found to be key drivers of the elevational patterns of ecosystem and biomass C storage, while for beech forests globally, stand age was the most important predictor. Compared to beech forests worldwide, beech forests in Guizhou Province displayed a relatively higher biomass C accumulation rate, which may be explained by a much higher precipitation in this area. The present study provides basic data for understanding the C budgets of Chinese beech forests and their possible roles in regional C cycling and emphasizes the general importance of stand age and climate on C accumulation.

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