Environmental filtering is the primary driver of community assembly in forest–grassland mosaics A case study based on CSR strategies /
Aims: Ecological strategies can provide information about plant community assembly and its main drivers. Our aim was to reveal the dominant strategies of the vegetationtypes of forest–grassland mosaics and to deduce the assembly processes responsible for their species compo...
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| Dokumentumtípus: | Cikk |
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2024
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| Sorozat: | JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE
35 No. 1 |
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| doi: | 10.1111/jvs.13228 |
| mtmt: | 34519844 |
| Online Access: | http://publicatio.bibl.u-szeged.hu/30044 |
| Tartalmi kivonat: | Aims: Ecological strategies can provide information about plant community assembly and its main drivers. Our aim was to reveal the dominant strategies of the vegetationtypes of forest–grassland mosaics and to deduce the assembly processes responsible for their species composition.Location: Hungary.Methods: We investigated eight vegetation types of Hungarian forest–steppes. The trade-off between three key traits related to leaf size and economics was used to calculate Grime's competitive–stress tolerance–ruderal (CSR) value for each species, based on which the mean value for each vegetation type was determined. Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) ordination was used to reveal the compositional dif -ferences among the vegetation types under study. To analyze how ecological strate-gies correlate with the compositional gradient, we used linear regression between plot ordination scores (the first DCA scores) and each strategy (C, S, and R). Linear mixed-effect models were used to evaluate the differences between the vegetation types regarding each strategy (C, S, and R).Results: Each vegetation type was dominated by the stress-tolerator strategy, indicat-ing the prominent role of environmental filtering in community assembly. However, ecological strategies differed significantly among the communities. The importance of |
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| Terjedelem/Fizikai jellemzők: | 10 |
| ISSN: | 1100-9233 |