ArticleRoyal Society open science2021
A signal of competitive dominance in mid-latitude herbaceous plant communities.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- The Role of Observation Scales, Trait Correlations, and Competitive Regimes in Community Assembly Patterns.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Intransitivity as a dynamic assembly engine of competitive communities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Biological Microbial Interactions from Cooccurrence Networks in a High Mountain Lacustrine District.mSphere · 2022Article
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Abstract
Understanding the main determinants of species coexistence across space and time is a central question in ecology. However, ecologists still know little about the scales and conditions at which biotic interactions matter and how these interact with the environment to structure species assemblages. Here we use recent theoretical developments to analyse plant distribution and trait data across Europe and find that plant height clustering is related to both evapotranspiration (ET) and gross primary productivity. This clustering is a signal of interspecies competition between plants, which is most evident in mid-latitude ecoregions, where conditions for growth (reflected in actual ET rates and gross primary productivities) are optimal. Away from this optimum, climate severity probably overrides the effect of competition, or other interactions become increasingly important. Our approach bridges the gap between species-rich competition theories and large-scale species distribution data analysis.
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