Sparse positive and negative weak interactions drive plant species performance in a diverse community DOI Open Access
Lisa Buche, Lauren G. Shoemaker, Peter A. Vesk

et al.

Authorea (Authorea), Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Sept. 3, 2024

With many species interacting in nature, determining which describe community dynamics is nontrivial.By applying a new Bayesian-sparse modelling approach to an extensive field survey, we assessed the importance of interactions from con-and hetero-specific plants, pollinators, and insect herbivores on plant performance.We compared inclusion interaction effects as aggregate "generic" terms versus specific terms.We found that continuum positive negative interactions, containing mostly generic but few strong was sufficient variation performance.While with conspecifics varied weakly positive, heterospecific plants mainly promoted competition pollinators facilitated plants.The consistency these empirical findings over three years suggests broad resolution, including guilds groups rather than all pairwise high-order can accurately performance across natural communities.

Language: Английский

Assembly Graph as the Rosetta Stone of Ecological Assembly DOI Creative Commons
Chuliang Song

Published: Aug. 2, 2024

Ecological assembly---the process of ecological community formation through species introductions---has recently seen exciting theoretical advancements across dynamical, informational, and probabilistic approaches. However, these theories often remain inaccessible to non-theoreticians, they lack a unifying lens. Here, I introduce the assembly graph as an integrative tool connect emerging theories. The visually represents dynamics, where nodes symbolize combinations edges represent transitions driven by introductions. Through lens graphs, review how processes reduce uncertainty in random arrivals (informational approach), identify graphical properties that guarantee coexistence examine class dynamical models constrain topology graphs (dynamical quantify transition probabilities with incomplete information (probabilistic approach). To facilitate empirical testing, also methods decompose complex into smaller, measurable components, well computational tools for deriving graphs. In sum, this math-light progress aims catalyze research towards predictive understanding assembly.

Language: Английский

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Sparse positive and negative weak interactions drive plant species performance in a diverse community DOI Open Access
Lisa Buche, Lauren G. Shoemaker, Peter A. Vesk

et al.

Authorea (Authorea), Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Sept. 3, 2024

With many species interacting in nature, determining which describe community dynamics is nontrivial.By applying a new Bayesian-sparse modelling approach to an extensive field survey, we assessed the importance of interactions from con-and hetero-specific plants, pollinators, and insect herbivores on plant performance.We compared inclusion interaction effects as aggregate "generic" terms versus specific terms.We found that continuum positive negative interactions, containing mostly generic but few strong was sufficient variation performance.While with conspecifics varied weakly positive, heterospecific plants mainly promoted competition pollinators facilitated plants.The consistency these empirical findings over three years suggests broad resolution, including guilds groups rather than all pairwise high-order can accurately performance across natural communities.

Language: Английский

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