The accumulation of functional diversity in communities is poorly understood. Conveniently, the general dynamic model of island biogeography (GDM) makes predictions for how such diversity might accumulate over time. In this multiscale study of land snail communities on 10 oceanic archipelagos located in various regions of the globe, we test hypotheses of community assembly in systems where islands serve as chronosequences along island ontogeny.

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岛屿个体发育是否决定了物种丰富度和功能多样性的积累？

人们对社区功能多样性的积累知之甚少。方便的是，岛屿生物地理学 (GDM) 的一般动态模型可以预测这种多样性如何随着时间的推移而积累。在这项对位于全球不同地区的 10 个海洋群岛的陆蜗牛群落的多尺度研究中，我们测试了在岛屿作为岛屿个体发育的时间序列的系统中群落组装的假设。