Habitat filtering determines the functional niche occupancy of plant communities worldwide

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 1001-1009

  Li, Yuanzhi ^a,b   Shipley, Bill ^a   Price, Jodi N ^c,d   Dantas, Vinícius de L ^e   Tamme, Riin ^f,g   Westoby, Mark ^h   Siefert, Andrew ⁱ   Schamp, Brandon S ^j   Spasojevic, Marko J ^k   Jung, Vincent ^l   Laughlin, Daniel C ^m   Richardson, Sarah J ⁿ   Bagousse Pinguet, Yoann Le ^o,p   Schöb, Christian ^q   Gazol, Antonio ^r   Prentice, Honor C ^s   Gross, Nicolas ^p,t,u   Overton, Jake ^v   Cianciaruso, Marcus V ^w   Louault, Frédérique ^x   Kamiyama, Chiho ^y   Nakashizuka, Tohru ^z   Hikosaka, Kouki ^z   Sasaki, Takehiro ^aa   Katabuchi, Masatoshi ^ab   Frenette Dussault, Cédric ^a   Gaucherand, Stephanie ^ac   Chen, Ning ^b   Vandewalle, Marie ^ad   Batalha, Marco Antônio ^ae   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^h MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j ALGOMA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

ⁿ LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^o UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^p UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^r INSTITUTO PIRENAICO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^s LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^t CNRS   (France)

^u UNIVERSITÉ DE LA ROCHELLE   (France)

^v LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^w FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF GOIÁS   (Brazil)

^x French National Institute of Agricultural Research   (France)

^y UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^z TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^aa CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^ac Cemagref   (France)

^ad HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^ae FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

more..

Author keywords

community assembly; determinants of plant community diversity and structure; habitat filtering; intraspecific trait variability; limiting similarity; niche occupancy; species richness

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NICHE OVERLAP; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

EID: 85042661231     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12802     Document Type: Article

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