ArticleEcology and evolution2025
Rapid Shifts in Relative Abundance Obscure Temporal Diversity Changes in a Metacommunity.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Rapid Shifts in Relative Abundance Obscure Temporal Diversity Changes in a Metacommunity.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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Abstract
Changes in biodiversity reflect processes acting at multiple spatial scales, from local to global, among habitats and within communities. This complexity makes it difficult to measure mechanisms that have traditionally interested ecologists, such as environmental filters. To resolve this, we propose an approach to partition temporal changes in biodiversity into contributions from selection at multiple scales. We applied this approach to study changes in the biodiversity of invertebrate herbivores from a large-scale, plant community experiment. Though the experiment was designed to foster distinct insect communities due to differences in host plants, our approach showed that selection among these treatments was a negligible facet of diversity change. These effects were swamped by rapid changes in relative abundances of aphids due to both immigration and selection across the metacommunity. More broadly, our work highlights how total change in biodiversity across a biogeographic region can be partitioned into logically distinct mechanisms.
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