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The mechanisms generating community phylogenetic patterns change with spatial scale.
Oecologia ( IF 2.3 ) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 , DOI: 10.1007/s00442-020-04695-9
Lanna S Jin 1 , Deyi Yin 2 , Marie-Josée Fortin 1 , Marc W Cadotte 1, 2
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Studies that test community assembly hypotheses in observational communities frequently evaluate patterns for plots or entire communities, yet studies that examine assembly patterns across spatial scales show that they are greatly influenced by scale. Here, we test the spatial dependency of patterns of relatedness and plant height for all individual herbaceous plants along five 40-m old-field transects (Southern Ontario, Canada). We identified each individual plant and measured its distance along the transect and its height, and we constructed a molecular phylogeny for all observed species. To uncover the scale at which community phylogenetic and trait similarities shift, we used partial Mantel correlograms and distance-based Moran Eigenvector Maps (dbMEMs). We found that communities shift from significantly overdispersed at relatively smaller scales (i.e., < 15 m) to spatially clustered at larger scales, showing that assembly mechanism influence depends on scale of observation. This pattern was observed for both phylogeny and height, but was the strongest when considering phylogeny only. These results reveal the importance of spatial scale when examining community phylogenetic or trait patterns, where finding support for one assembly mechanism at a single scale does not necessarily mean that other mechanisms are also not important for structuring community composition and diversity.



中文翻译:

产生群落系统发育模式的机制随空间尺度而变化。

在观察性社区中测试社区装配假说的研究经常评估地块或整个社区的模式,但是研究跨空间尺度的装配模式的研究表明,它们受尺度的影响很大。在这里,我们测试了沿五个40 m老场样带(加拿大安大略省南部)所有草本植物的相关性和株高模式的空间依赖性。我们确定了每种植物,并测量了其沿样带的距离和高度,并为所有观察到的物种构建了分子系统发育史。为了揭示社区系统发育和性状相似性转移的规模,我们使用了部分Mantel相关图和基于距离的Moran特征向量图(dbMEMs)。我们发现社区从相对较小的规模(即<15 m)的明显过度分散转变为较大规模的空间聚集,这表明聚集机制的影响取决于观测规模。对于系统发育和高度均观察到该模式,但仅考虑系统发育时最强。这些结果揭示了在检查社区系统发育或特征模式时空间尺度的重要性,在这种情况下,在单一尺度上寻求一种聚集机制的支持并不一定意味着其他机制对于构造社区组成和多样性也不重要。但在仅考虑系统发育时最强。这些结果揭示了在检查社区系统发育或特征模式时空间尺度的重要性,在这种情况下,在单一尺度上寻求一种聚集机制的支持并不一定意味着其他机制对于构造社区组成和多样性也不重要。但在仅考虑系统发育时最强。这些结果揭示了在检查社区系统发育或特征模式时空间尺度的重要性,在这种情况下,在单一尺度上寻求一种聚集机制的支持并不一定意味着其他机制对于构建社区组成和多样性也不重要。

更新日期:2020-07-03
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