ArticleEcology and evolution2018
Persistence and space preemption explain species-specific founder effects on the organization of marine sessile communities.
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- Founders Can Increase Determinism of Community Assembly.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Negative and positive interspecific interactions involving jellyfish polyps in marine sessile communities.PeerJ · 2023Article
- Colonization history meets further niche processes: how the identity of founders modulates the way predation structure fouling communities.Oecologia · 2021Article
- Interacting effects of habitat structure and seeding with oysters on the intertidal biodiversity of seawalls.PloS one · 2020Article
- Colonial ascidians strongly preyed upon, yet dominate the substrate in a subtropical fouling community.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Persistence and space preemption explain species-specific founder effects on the organization of marine sessile communities.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
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Abstract
Community assembly may not follow predictable successional stages, with a large fraction of the species pool constituted by potential pioneering species and successful founders defined through lottery. In such systems, priority effects may be relevant in the determination of trajectories of developing communities and hence diversity and assemblage structure at later advanced states. In order to assess how different founder species may trigger variable community trajectories and structures, we conducted an experimental study using subtidal sessile assemblages as model. We manipulated the identity of functionally different founders and initial colony size (a proxy of the time lag before the arrival of later species), and followed trajectories. We did not observe any effects of colony size on response variables, suggesting that priority effects take place even when the time lag between the establishment of pioneering species and late colonizers is very short. Late community structure at experimental panels that started either with the colonial ascidian
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