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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"niche assembly"”.
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Ecological assembly of high-diversity plant communities: dispersal, competition, and environmental filtering in longleaf pine savannas
… mechanisms proposed to explain community assembly and the maintenance of biodiversity are hypothesized to fall along a theoretical continuum bounded at one extreme by deterministic processes (“niche assembly”) and at the other extreme by stochastic processes (“dispersal assembly”). In this …
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Community ecology of aquatic insects in forested headwater streams in the southern Appalachians
Competing paradigms of community assembly emphasize different mechanisms for predicting patterns in biogeography. Niche assembly emphasizes the role of environmental gradients as filters that organize a metacommunity by locally selecting colonizers with similar functional traits, whereas dispersal …
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The effects of local-scale resource heterogeneity on tropical tree communities
The role of niche assembly processes in shaping ecological communities is a subject of great interest to ecologists, especially in species rich communities such as tropical forests, as niche processes may play an important part in biodiversity maintenance. An important part of the environmental …