Do assembly history effects attenuate from species to ecosystem properties? A field test with wood-inhabiting fungi

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-141

  Dickie, Ian A ^a   Fukami, Tadashi ^a,b   Wilkie, J Paula ^c   Allen, Robert B ^a   Buchanan, Peter K ^c  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alternative community states; Community assembly; Dispersal; Effect size; Functional redundancy; New Zealand Nothofagus forest; Priority effects; Scaling; Wood decomposition; Wood decay fungi

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DECOMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FUNGUS; HABITAT QUALITY; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; WOOD;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FAGACEAE; FUNGUS; MICROBIOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE; WOOD;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FAGACEAE; FUNGI; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW ZEALAND; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; WOOD;

FUNGI; NOTHOFAGUS;

EID: 84855446161     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01722.x     Document Type: Article

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