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DOI: 10.1111/ele.12403
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84934178290
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Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants
作者: Fayle T.M.; Eggleton P.; Manica A.; Yusah K.M.; Foster W.A.
刊名: Ecology Letters
ISSN: 1461023X
EISSN: 1461-0248
出版年: 2015
卷: 18, 期:3
起始页码: 254
结束页码: 262
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Asplenium ; Bird's nest fern ; Diffuse competition ; Epiphyte ; Formicidae ; Microcosm ; Mutualism ; Nearest neighbour competition ; Rainforest
Scopus关键词: Asplenium ; Asplenium nidus ; Aves ; Formicidae ; animal ; ant ; biological model ; biota ; Borneo ; competitive behavior ; introduced species ; symbiosis ; Animals ; Ants ; Biota ; Borneo ; Competitive Behavior ; Introduced Species ; Models, Biological ; Symbiosis
英文摘要: Understanding how species assemble into communities is a key goal in ecology. However, assembly rules are rarely tested experimentally, and their ability to shape real communities is poorly known. We surveyed a diverse community of epiphyte-dwelling ants and found that similar-sized species co-occurred less often than expected. Laboratory experiments demonstrated that invasion was discouraged by the presence of similarly sized resident species. The size difference for which invasion was less likely was the same as that for which wild species exhibited reduced co-occurrence. Finally we explored whether our experimentally derived assembly rules could simulate realistic communities. Communities simulated using size-based species assembly exhibited diversities closer to wild communities than those simulated using size-independent assembly, with results being sensitive to the combination of rules employed. Hence, species segregation in the wild can be driven by competitive species assembly, and this process is sufficient to generate observed species abundance distributions for tropical epiphyte-dwelling ants. © 2015 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and CNRS.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/107879
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作者单位: Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech Republic and Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Berkshire, United Kingdom; Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia; Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, United Kingdom; Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Insect Ecology Group, University Museum of Zoology Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Fayle T.M.,Eggleton P.,Manica A.,et al. Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants[J]. Ecology Letters,2015-01-01,18(3)
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