ArticleEcography2020
Ecotone formation through ecological niche construction: the role of biodiversity and species interactions.
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- Ecological and Historical Correlates of Taxonomic, Phylogenetic, and Functional Diversity of Amphibians in South American Rainforests and Savannas.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Ecotones as Windows into Organismal-to-Biome Scale Responses across Neotropical Forests.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
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- Interactions at surface-subterranean ecotones: structure and function of food webs within spring orifices.Oecologia · 2021Article
- Accuracy in the prediction of disease epidemics when ensembling simple but highly correlated models.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Machine-learning model led design to experimentally test species thermal limits: The case of kissing bugs (Triatominae).PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Global identification and mapping of socio-ecological production landscapes with the Satoyama Index.PloS one · 2021Article
- Joint species distribution models of Everglades wading birds to inform restoration planning.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Rapid changes in species composition, also known as ecotones, can result from various causes including rapid changes in environmental conditions, or physiological thresholds. The possibility that ecotones arise from ecological niche construction by ecosystem engineers has received little attention. In this study, we investigate how the diversity of ecosystem engineers, and their interactions, can give rise to ecotones. We build a spatially explicit dynamical model that couples a multispecies community and its abiotic environment. We use numerical simulations and analytical techniques to determine the biotic and abiotic conditions under which ecotone emergence is expected to occur, and the role of biodiversity therein. We show that the diversity of ecosystem engineers can lead to indirect interactions through the modification of their shared environment. These interactions, which can be either competitive or mutualistic, can lead to the emergence of discrete communities in space, separated by sharp ecotones where a high species turnover is observed. Considering biodiversity is thus critical when studying the influence of species-environment interactions on the emergence of ecotones. This is especially true for the wide range of species that have small to moderate effects on their environment. Our work highlights new mechanisms by which biodiversity loss could cause significant changes in spatial community patterns in changing environments.
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