Does niche overlap control relative abundance in French lacustrine fish communities? A new method incorporating functional traits

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 661-669

  Mason, Norman W H ^a   Lanoiselée, Cédric ^a   Mouillot, David ^b   Wilson, J Bastow ^c   Argillier, Christine ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ecosystem function; Functional diversity; Limiting similarity; Niche complementarity; Relative abundance distribution

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLEMENTARITY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FISH; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NICHE OVERLAP; SIMILARITY INDEX;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FISHES; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44849096051     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01379.x     Document Type: Article

References (69)

1. Adler, P.B., HilleRisLambers, J. Levine, J.M. (2007) A niche for neutrality. Ecology Letters, 10, 95 104.
2. Armbruster, W.S., Edwards, M.E. Debevec, E.M. (1994) Floral character displacement generates assemblage structure of Western Australian triggerplants (Stylidium). Ecology, 75, 315 329.
3. Arrington, D.A., Winemiller, K.O. Layman, C.A. (2005) Community assembly at the patch scale in a species rich tropical river. Oecologia, 144, 157 167.
4. Bohn, T. Amundsen, P.A. (2001) The competitive edge of an invading specialist. Ecology, 82, 2150 2163.
5. Byström, P., Persson, L. Wahlström, E. (1998) Competing predators and prey: juvenile bottlenecks in whole-lake experiments. Ecology, 79, 2153 2167.
6. Casatti, L. Castro, M.C. (2006) Testing the ecomorphological hypothesis in a headwater riffles fish assemblage of the rio São Francisco, southeastern Brazil. Neotropica Icthyologica, 4, 203 214.
7. Chase, J.M. Leibold, M.A. (2003) Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
8. Chave, J. (2004) Neutral theory and community ecology. Ecology Letters, 7, 241 253.
9. Cottenie, K. (2005) Integrating environmental and spatial processes in ecological community dynamics. Ecology Letters, 8, 1175 1182.
10. Crowder, L.B. Cooper, W.E. (1982) Habitat structural complexity and the interaction between bluegills and their prey. Ecology, 63, 1802 1813.
11. Crowder, L.B., Magnuson, J.J. Brandt, S.B. (1981) Complementarity in the use of food and thermal habitat by Lake Michigan fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 38, 662 668.
12. Darwin, C. (1859) On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. John Murray, London.
13. Diehl, S. (1993) Effects of habitat structure on resource availability, diet and growth of benthivorous perch, Perca fluviatilis. Oikos, 67, 403 414.
14. Diehl, S. Kornijow, R. (1998) Influence of submerged macrophytes on trophic interactions among fish and macroinvertebrates. The Structuring Role of Submerged Macrophytes in Lakes (eds E. Jeppesen, M. Sondergaard, M. Sondergaard K. Christoffersen pp. 24 46. Springer, New York.
15. Douglas, M.E. Matthews, W.J. (1992) Does morphology predict ecology - hypothesis-testing within a fresh-water stream fish assemblage. Oikos, 65, 213 224.
16. Dumay, O., Tari, P.S., Tomasini, J.A. Mouillot, D. (2004) Functional groups of lagoon fish species in Languedoc Roussillon, southern France. Journal of Fish Biology, 64, 1 14.
17. Ejrnaes, R., Bruun, H.H. Graae, B.J. (2006) Community assembly in experimental grasslands: suitable environment or timely arrival? Ecology, 87, 1225 1233.
18. Elliott, J.P. Bellwood, D.R. (2003) Alimentary tract morphology and diet in three coral reef fish families. Journal of Fish Biology, 63, 1598 1609.
19. Etienne, R.S. Olff, H. (2005) Confronting different models of community structure to species-abundance data: a Bayesian model comparison. Ecology Letters, 8, 493 504.
20. Fukami, T., Bezemer, T.M., Mortimer, S.R. van der Putten, W.H. (2005) Species divergence and trait convergence in experimental plant community assembly. Ecology Letters, 8, 1283 1290.
21. Gatz, A.J.J. (1979) Ecological morphology of freshwater stream fishes. Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany, 21, 91 124.
22. Gause, G.F. (1934) The Struggle for Existence. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD.
23. Gotelli, N.J. McCabe, D.J. (2002) Species co-occurrence: a meta-analysis of J.M. Diamond's assembly rules model. Ecology, 83, 2091 2096.
24. Harpole, W.S. Tilman, D. (2006) Non-neutral patterns of species abundance in grassland communities. Ecology Letters, 9, 15 23.
25. Holcik, J., Banarescu, P. Diana, E. (1989) General introduction to fishes. The Freshwater Fishes of Europe - General Introduction to Fishes - Acipenseriformes (ed. J. Holcik), Vol. 1/2, pp. 19 59. AULA-Verlag, Wiesbaden.
26. Hubbell, S.P. (2001) The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
27. Hugueny, B. Pouilly, M. (1999) Morphological correlates of diet in an assemblage of West African freshwater fishes. Journal of Fish Biology, 54, 1310 1325.
28. Kramer, D.L. Bryant, M.J. (1995) Intestine length in the fishes of a tropical stream. 1. Ontogenic allometry. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 42, 115 127.
29. Leibold, M.A., Holyoak, M., Mouquet, N., Amarasekare, P., Chase, J.M., Hoopes, M.F., Holt, R.D., Shurin, J.B., Law, R., Tilman, D., Loreau, M. Gonzalez, A. (2004) The metacommunity concept: a framework for multi-scale community ecology. Ecology Letters, 7, 601 613.
30. Loreau, M. (2000) Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: recent theoretical advances. Oikos, 91, 3 17.
31. MacArthur, R. Levins, R. (1967) The limiting similarity, convergence, and divergence of coexisting species. American Naturalist, 101, 377 385.
32. Mahdi, A., Law, R. Willis, A.J. (1989) Large niche overlaps among coexisting plant species in a limestone grassland community. Journal of Ecology, 77, 385 400.
33. Mahon, R. (1984) Divergent structure in fish taxocenes of north temperate streams. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 41, 330 350.
34. Mason, N.W.H. Wilson, J.B. (2006) Mechanisms of species coexistence in a lawn community: mutual corroboration between two independent assembly rules. Community Ecology, 7, 109 116.
35. Mason, N.W.H., Mouillot, D., Lee, W.G. Wilson, J.B. (2005) Functional richness, functional evenness and functional divergence: the primary components of functional diversity. Oikos, 111, 112 118.
36. Mason, N.W.H., Lanoiselée, C., Mouillot, D., Irz, P. Argillier, C. (2007) Functional characters combined with null models reveal inconsistency in mechanisms of species turnover in lacustrine fish communities. Oecologia, 153, 441 452.
37. McGill, B.J., Enquist, B.J., Weiher, E. Westoby, M. (2006) Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21, 178 185.
38. Moreau, G. Legendre, L. (1979) Relation between habitat and fish communities - experiment for definition of numerical method for northern rivers. Hydrobiologia, 67, 81 87.
39. Mouillot, D. Wilson, J.B. (2002) Can we tell how a community was constructed? A comparison of five evenness indices for their ability to identify theoretical models of community construction. Theoretical Population Biology, 61, 141 151.
40. Mouillot, D., Stubbs, W., Faure, M., Dumay, O., Tomasini, J.A., Wilson, J.B. Chi, T.D. (2005) Niche overlap estimates based on quantitative functional traits: a new family of non-parametric indices. Oecologia, 145, 345 353.
41. Mouillot, D., Mason, N.W.H. Wilson, J.B. (2007) Is the abundance of species within local communities determined by their functional characters? Oecologia, 152, 729 737.
42. Mouquet, N., Mulder, G.S.E.E., Jansen, V.A.A. Loreau, M. (2001) The properties of competitive communities with coupled local and regional dynamics. Dispersal: Individual, Population, and Community (eds J. Clobert, E. Danchin, A.A. Dhondt J.D. Nichols pp. 96 109. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
43. Mouquet, N., Munguia, P., Kneitel, J.M. Miller, T.E. (2003) Community assembly time and the relationship between local and regional species richness. Oikos, 103, 618 626.
44. Nikolski, G.V. (1933) On the influence of the rate of flow on the fish fauna of the rivers of central Asia. Journal of Animal Ecology, 2, 266 281.
45. Persson, L. (1983) Effects of intra- and interspecific competition on dynamics and size structure of a perch Perca fluviatilis and roach Rutilus rutilus population. Oikos, 41, 126 132.
46. Persson, L. (1990) A field experiment on the effects of interspecific competition from roach, Rutilus rutilus (L.), on age at maturity and gonad size in perch, Perca fluviatilis L. Journal of Fish Biology, 37, 899 906.
47. Petchey, O.L. (2003) Integrating methods that investigate how complementarity influences ecosystem functioning. Oikos, 101, 323 330.
48. Piet, G.J. (1998) Impact of environmental perturbation on a tropical fish community. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 55, 1842 1853.
49. Pouilly, M., Lino, F., Bretenoux, J.G. Rosales, C. (2003) Dietary-morphological relationships in a fish assemblage of the Bolivian Amazonian floodplain. Journal of Fish Biology, 2003, 1137 1158.
50. Rao, C.R. (1982) Diversity: its measurement, decomposition, apportionment and analysis. Sankhya, 44, 1 22.
51. Resetarits, W.J., Binckley, C.A. Chalcraft, D.R. (2005) Habitat selection, species interactions, and processes of community assembly in complex landscapes: a metacommunity perspective. Metacommunities: Spatial Dynamics and Ecological Communities (eds M. Holyoak, R.D. Holt M.A. Leibold pp. 374 398. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
52. Roxburgh, S.H., Shea, K. Wilson, J.B. (2004) The intermediate disturbance hypothesis: patch dynamics and mechanisms of species coexistence. Ecology, 85, 359 371.
53. Sibbing, F.A. Nagelkerke, L.A.J. (2001) Resource partitioning by Lake Tana barbs predicted from fish morphometrics and prey characteristics. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 10, 393 437.
54. Silvertown, J. (2004) Plant coexistence and the niche. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 19, 605 611.
55. Smith, B. Wilson, J.B. (2002) Community convergence: Ecological and evolutionary. Folia Geobotanica, 37, 171 183.
56. Snyder, R.E., Borer, E.T. Chesson, P. (2005) Examining the relative importance of spatial and nonspatial coexistence mechanisms. American Naturalist, 166, E75 E94.
57. Stubbs, W.J. Wilson, J.B. (2004) Evidence for limiting similarity in a sand dune community. Journal of Ecology, 92, 557 567.
58. Sugihara, G., Bersier, L.F., Southwood, T.R.E., Pimm, S.L. May, R.M. (2003) Predicted correspondence between species abundances and dendrograms of niche similarities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 100, 5246 5251.
59. Tonn, W.M. Magnuson, J.J. (1982) Patterns in the species composition and richness of fish assemblages in northern Wisconsin lakes. Ecology, 63, 1149 1166.
60. Turnbull, L.A., Coomes, D., Hector, A. Rees, M. (2004) Seed mass and the competition/colonization trade-off: competitive interactions and spatial patterns in a guild of annual plants. Journal of Ecology, 92, 97 109.
61. Volkov, I., Banavar, J.R., Hubbell, S.P. Maritan, A. (2003) Neutral theory and relative species abundance in ecology. Nature, 424, 1035 1037.
62. Watson, D.J. Balon, E.K. (1984) Ecomorphological analysis of fish taxocenes in rainforest streams of northern Borneo. Journal of Fish Biology, 25, 371 384.
63. Wilson, J.B. (1990) Mechanisms of species coexistence: twelve explanations for Hutchinson's 'Paradox of the Plankton': evidence from New Zealand plant communities. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 13, 17 42.
64. Wilson, J.B. (1999a) Assembly rules in plant communities. Ecological Assembly Rules: Perspectives, Advances, Retreats (eds E. Weiher P.A. Keddy). Cambridge University Press.
65. Wilson, J.B. (1999b) Guilds, functional types and ecological groups. Oikos, 86, 507 522.
66. Wilson, J.B., Wells, T.C.E., Trueman, I.C., Jones, G., Atkinson, M.D., Crawley, M.J., Dodd, M.E. Silvertown, J. (1996) Are there assembly rules for plant species abundance? An investigation in relation to soil resources and successional trends. Journal of Ecology, 84, 527 538.
67. Winemiller, K.O. Pianka, E.R. (1990) Organization in natural assemblages of desert lizards and tropical fishes. Ecological Monographs, 60, 27 55.
68. Winston, M.R. (1995) Co-occurrence of morphologically similar species of stream fishes. American Naturalist, 145, 527 545.
69. Wooton, J.T. (2005) Field parametirasation and experimental test if the neutral theory of biodiversity. Nature, 433, 309 312.