Experimental plant communities develop phylogenetically overdispersed abundance distributions during assembly

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 465-477

  Allan, Eric ^a,b   Jenkins, Tania ^a,c   Fergus, Alexander J F ^d   Roscher, Christiane ^e,f   Fischer, Markus ^b   Petermann, Jana ^d,g   Weisser, Wolfgang W ^h   Schmid, Bernhard ^d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^f HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^g FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^h TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Community assembly; Convergence; Jena Experiment; Limiting similarity; Phylogenetic dispersion

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISPERSAL; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876150612     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-2279.1     Document Type: Article

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