Individual-based trait analyses reveal assembly patterns in tree sapling communities

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 176-186

  Carlucci, Marcos B ^a   Streit, Helena ^a   Duarte, Leandro D S ^a   Pillar, Valério D ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Araucaria angustifolia; Assembly rules; Biotic interactions; Campos grassland; Environmental filtering; Limiting similarity; Niche partitioning; Trait convergence; Trait divergence

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY RULE; BIOTIC FACTOR; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DIVERGENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; LEAF AREA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METAPOPULATION; MICROHABITAT; NICHE PARTITIONING; SAPLING; SIMILARITY INDEX; TAXONOMY;

BRAZIL;

ARAUCARIA ANGUSTIFOLIA;

EID: 84855534105     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01339.x     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. Ackerly, D.D. 2003. Community assembly, niche conservatism, and adaptive evolution in changing environments. International Journal of Plant Sciences 164: S165-S184.
2. Ackerly, D.D. & Cornwell, W.K. 2007. A trait-based approach to community assembly: partitioning of species trait values into within- and among-community components. Ecology Letters 10: 135-145.
3. Albert, C.H., Thuiller, W., Yoccoz, N.G., Soudant, A., Boucher, F., Saccone, P. & Lavorel, S. 2010. Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation. Journal of Ecology 98: 604-613.
4. BakerBrosh, K.F. & Peet, R.K. 1997. The ecological significance of lobed and toothed leaves in temperate forest trees. Ecology 78: 1250-1255.
5. Baraloto, C., Paine, C.E.T., Patino, S., Bonal, D., Herault, B. & Chave, J. 2010. Functional trait variation and sampling strategies in species-rich plant communities. Functional Ecology 24: 208-216.
6. Blanco, C.C., Sosinski, E.E., dos Santos, B.R.C., da Silva, M.A. & Pillar, V.D. 2007. On the overlap between effect and response plant functional types linked to grazing. Community Ecology 8: 57-65.
7. Carlucci, M.B., Jarenkow, J.A., Duarte, L.D.S. & Pillar, V.D. 2011. Conservação da Floresta com Araucária no extremo sul do Brasil. Natureza and Conservação 9: 111-114.
8. Clark, D.A. & Clark, D.B. 1992. Life-history diversity of canopy and emergent trees in a neotropical rain-forest. Ecological Monographs 62: 315-344.
9. Coley, P.D. 1983. Herbivory and defensive characteristics of tree species in a lowland tropical forest. Ecological Monographs 53: 209-233.
10. Cornelissen, J.H.C., Lavorel, S., Garnier, E., Diaz, S., Buchmann, N., Gurvich, D.E., Reich, P.B., ter Steege, H., Morgan, H.D., van der Heijden, M.G.A., Pausas, J.G. & Poorter, H. 2003. A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide. Australian Journal of Botany 51: 335-380.
11. Díaz, S. & Cabido, M. 2001. Vive la difference: plant functional diversity matters to ecosystem processes. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 646-655.
12. Díaz, S., Hodgson, J.G., Thompson, K., Cabido, M., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Jalili, A., Montserrat-Marti, G., Grime, J.P., Zarrinkamar, F., Asri, Y., Band, S.R., Basconcelo, S., Castro-Diez, P., Funes, G., Hamzehee, B., Khoshnevi, M., Perez-Harguindeguy, N., Perez-Rontome, M.C., Shirvany, F.A., Vendramini, F., Yazdani, S., Abbas-Azimi, R., Bogaard, A., Boustani, S., Charles, M., Dehghan, M., de Torres-Espuny, L., Falczuk, V., Guerrero-Campo, J., Hynd, A., Jones, G., Kowsary, E., Kazemi-Saeed, F., Maestro-Martinez, M., Romo-Diez, A., Shaw, S., Siavash, B., Villar-Salvador, P. & Zak, M.R. 2004. The plant traits that drive ecosystems: evidence from three continents. Journal of Vegetation Science 15: 295-304.
13. Dutra, T.L. & Stranz, A. 2003. História das Araucariaceae: a contribuição dos fósseis para o entendimento das adaptações modernas da família no Hemisfério Sul, com vistas a seu manejo e conservação. In: Ronchi, L.H. & Coelho, O.G.W. (eds.) Tecnologia diagnóstico e planejamento ambiental, pp. 293-351. UNISINOS, São Leopoldo, BR.
14. Ehleringer, J.R. & Werk, K.S. 1986. Modifications of solar-radiation absorption patterns and implications for carbon gain at the leaf level. In: Givnish, T.J. (ed) On the economy of plant form and function, pp. 57-82. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
15. Funk, J.L., Cleland, E.E., Suding, K.N. & Zavaleta, E.S. 2008. Restoration through reassembly: plant traits and invasion resistance. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 695-703.
16. Gaucherand, S. & Lavorel, S. 2007. New method for rapid assessment of the functional composition of herbaceous plant communities. Austral Ecology 32: 927-936.
17. Gilbert, B., Wright, S.J., Muller-Landau, H.C., Kitajima, K. & Hernandez, A. 2006. Life history trade-offs in tropical trees and lianas. Ecology 87: 1281-1288.
18. Gower, J.C. 1971. General coefficient of similarity and some of its properties. Biometrics 27: 857-871.
19. Grime, J.P. 2006. Trait convergence and trait divergence in herbaceous plant communities: mechanisms and consequences. Journal of Vegetation Science 17: 255-260.
20. Gross, N., Kunstler, G., Liancourt, P., de Bello, F., Suding, K.N. & Lavorel, S. 2009. Linking individual response to biotic interactions with community structure: a trait-based framework. Functional Ecology 23: 1167-1178.
21. Hijmans, R.J., Cameron, S.E., Parra, J.L., Jones, P.G. & Jarvis, A. 2005. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas. International Journal of Climatology 25: 1965-1978.
22. Howe, H.F. & Westley, L.C. (eds.) 1988. Ecological relationships of plants and animals. Oxford University Press, New York, US.
23. The International Plant Names Index (2011). Available at [accessed Aug 2011].
24. Keddy, P. & Weiher, E. 1999. Introduction - the scope and goals of research on assembly rules. In: Weiher, E. & Keddy, P. (eds.) Ecological assembly rules: perspectives, advances, retreats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
25. Lavorel, S., Grigulis, K., McIntyre, S., Williams, N.S.G., Garden, D., Dorrough, J., Berman, S., Quétier, F., Thébault, A. & Bonis, A. 2008. Assessing functional diversity in the field - methodology matters! Functional Ecology 22: 134-147.
26. Lieberman, M., Lieberman, D. & Peralta, R. 1989. Forests are not just Swiss cheese - canopy stereogeometry of non-gaps in tropical forests. Ecology 70: 550-552.
27. Lusk, C.H. & Warton, D.I. 2007. Global meta-analysis shows that relationships of leaf mass per area with species shade tolerance depend on leaf habit and ontogeny. New Phytologist 176: 764-774.
28. Lusk, C.H., Chazdon, R.L. & Hofmann, G. 2006. A bounded null model explains juvenile tree community structure along light availability gradients in a temperate rain forest. Oikos 112: 131-137.
29. Lusk, C.H., Falster, D.S., Jara-Vergara, C.K., Jimenez-Castillo, M. & Saldana-Mendoza, A. 2008a. Ontogenetic variation in light requirements of juvenile rainforest evergreens. Functional Ecology 22: 454-459.
30. Lusk, C.H., Reich, P.B., Montgomery, R.A., Ackerly, D.D. & Cavender-Bares, J. 2008b. Why are evergreen leaves so contrary about shade? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 299-303.
31. MacArthur, R. & Levins, R. 1967. Limiting similarity convergence and divergence of coexisting species. American Naturalist 101: 377-385.
32. Malhado, A.C.M., Whittaker, R.J., Malhi, Y., Ladle, R.J., ter Steege, H., Phillips, O., Aragao, L., Baker, T.R., Arroyo, L., Almeida, S., Higuchi, N., Killeen, T.J., Monteagudo, A., Pitman, N.C.A., Prieto, A., Salomao, R.P., Vasquez-Martinez, R., Laurance, W.F. & Ramirez-Angulo, H. 2010. Are compound leaves an adaptation to seasonal drought or to rapid growth? Evidence from the Amazon rain forest. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19: 852-862.
33. Manly, B.F.J. 2007. Randomization, bootstrap and Monte Carlo methods in biology. 3rd ed. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, US.
34. 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.
35. Nicotra, A.B., Chazdon, R.L. & Iriarte, S.V.B. 1999. Spatial heterogeneity of light and woody seedling regeneration in tropical wet forests. Ecology 80: 1908-1926.
36. Overbeck, G.E., Muller, S.C., Fidelis, A., Pfadenhauer, J., Pillar, V.D., Blanco, C.C., Boldrini, I., Both, R. & Forneck, E.D. 2007. Brazil's neglected biome: the South Brazilian Campos. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 9: 101-116.
37. Pacala, S.W. & Tilman, D. 1994. Limiting similarity in mechanistic and spatial models of plant competition in heterogeneous environments. American Naturalist 143: 222-257.
38. Pillar, V.D. & Duarte, L.D.S. 2010. A framework for metacommunity analysis of phylogenetic structure. Ecology Letters 13: 587-596.
39. Pillar, V.D. & Sosinski, E.E. 2003. An improved method for searching plant functional types by numerical analysis. Journal of Vegetation Science 14: 323-332.
40. Pillar, V.D., Duarte, L.D., Sosinski, E.E. & Joner, F. 2009. Discriminating trait-convergence and trait-divergence assembly patterns in ecological community gradients. Journal of Vegetation Science 20: 334-348.
41. Ramsay, P.M., Kent, M., Reid, C.L. & Duckworth, J.C. 2006. Taxonomic, morphological and structural surrogates for the rapid assessment of vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science 17: 747-754.
42. Reich, P.B., Walters, M.B. & Ellsworth, D.S. 1997. From tropics to tundra: global convergence in plant functioning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94: 13730-13734.
43. Royer, D.L. & Wilf, P. 2006. Why do toothed leaves correlate with cold climates? Gas exchange at leaf margins provides new insights into a classic paleotemperature proxy. International Journal of Plant Sciences 167: 11-18.
44. Santiago, L.S. & Wright, S.J. 2007. Leaf functional traits of tropical forest plants in relation to growth form. Functional Ecology 21: 19-27.
45. van der Valk, A.G. 1981. Succession in wetlands - a Gleasonian approach. Ecology 62: 688-696.
46. Violle, C., Navas, M.L., Vile, D., Kazakou, E., Fortunel, C., Hummel, I. & Garnier, E. 2007. Let the concept of trait be functional!. Oikos 116: 882-892.
47. Walters, M.B. & Reich, P.B. 1996. Are shade tolerance, survival, and growth linked? Low light and, nitrogen effects on hardwood seedlings. Ecology 77: 841-853.
48. Warman, L., Moles, A.T. & Edwards, W. 2010. Not so simple after all: searching for ecological advantages of compound leaves. Oikos 120: 813-821.
49. Weiher, E. & Keddy, P.A. 1995. Assembly rules, null models, and trait dispersion - new questions front old patterns. Oikos 74: 159-164.
50. Westoby, M. 1998. A leaf-height-seed (LHS) plant ecology strategy scheme. Plant and Soil 199: 213-227.
51. Westoby, M., Falster, D.S., Moles, A.T., Vesk, P.A. & Wright, I.J. 2002. Plant ecological strategies: some leading dimensions of variation between species. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33: 125-159.
52. Wilson, J.B. 1999. Assembly rules in plant communities. In: Weiher, E. & Keddy, P. (eds.) Ecological assembly rules: perspectives, advances, retreats, pp. 130-164. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
53. Wilson, J.B. 2007. Trait-divergence assembly rules have been demonstrated: limiting similarity lives! A reply to Grime. Journal of Vegetation Science 18: 451-452.
54. Wilson, P.J., Thompson, K. & Hodgson, J.G. 1999. Specific leaf area and leaf dry matter content as alternative predictors of plant strategies. New Phytologist 143: 155-162.
55. Wright, S.J. 2002. Plant diversity in tropical forests: a review of mechanisms of species coexistence. Oecologia 130: 1-14.
56. Wright, I.J., Reich, P.B., Westoby, M., Ackerly, D.D., Baruch, Z., Bongers, F., Cavender-Bares, J., Chapin, T., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Diemer, M., Flexas, J., Garnier, E., Groom, P.K., Gulias, J., Hikosaka, K., Lamont, B.B., Lee, T., Lee, W., Lusk, C., Midgley, J.J., Navas, M.L., Niinemets, U., Oleksyn, J., Osada, N., Poorter, H., Poot, P., Prior, L., Pyankov, V.I., Roumet, C., Thomas, S.C., Tjoelker, M.G., Veneklaas, E.J. & Villar, R. 2004. The worldwide leaf economics spectrum. Nature 428: 821-827.
57. Zobel, M. 1997. The relative role of species pools in determining plant species richness. An alternative explanation of species coexistence?. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 12: 266-269.