ArticleNature communications2021
The spatial configuration of biotic interactions shapes coexistence-area relationships in an annual plant community.
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- A practical guide to characterising ecological coexistence.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- The Significant Impact of Lost Species' Identity, Number and Abundance on Functional Structure of Alpine Meadow.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Spatial Distribution and Ecological Determinants of Coexisting Hybrid Oak Species: A Study in Yushan's Mixed Forest.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Pathways to global-change effects on biodiversity: new opportunities for dynamically forecasting demography and species interactions.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Review
- The spatial configuration of biotic interactions shapes coexistence-area relationships in an annual plant community.Nature communications · 2021Article
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Abstract
The increase of species richness with area is a universal phenomenon on Earth. However, this observation contrasts with our poor understanding of how these species-area relationships (SARs) emerge from the collective effects of area, spatial heterogeneity, and local interactions. By combining a structuralist approach with five years of empirical observations in a highly-diverse Mediterranean grassland, we show that spatial heterogeneity plays a little role in the accumulation of species richness with area in our system. Instead, as we increase the sampled area more species combinations are realized, and they coexist mainly due to direct pairwise interactions rather than by changes in single-species dominance or by indirect interactions. We also identify a small set of transient species with small population sizes that are consistently found across spatial scales. These findings empirically support the importance of the architecture of species interactions together with stochastic events for driving coexistence- and species-area relationships.
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