Is Phylogeny More Useful than Functional Traits for Assessing Diversity Patterns Under Community Assembly Processes?
文献类型:期刊论文
作者 | Xu, Jinshi2,3; Dang, Han4; Wang, Mao1; Chai, Yongfu2,3; Guo, Yaoxin2,3; Chen, Yu3; Zhang, Chenguang2,3; Yue, Ming2,3 |
刊名 | FORESTS |
出版日期 | 2019-12-01 |
卷号 | 10期号:12页码:11 |
关键词 | community assembly phylogenetic diversity functional trait taxonomic diversity |
DOI | 10.3390/f10121159 |
通讯作者 | Yue, Ming(yueming@nwu.edu.cn) |
英文摘要 | Phylogenetic and functional diversities and their relationship are important for understanding community assembly, which relates to forest sustainability. Thus, both diversities have been used in ecological studies evaluating community responses to environmental changes. However, it is unclear whether these diversity measures can uncover the actual community assembly processes. Herein, we examined their utility to assess such assembly processes by analyzing similarities in phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic alpha- and beta-diversities along an elevational gradient. Additionally, we examined the relationships among environment, phylogeny, and functional traits within the community. Based on our results, we evaluated whether phylogenetic or functional diversity could better reveal the actual community assembly processes. We found that taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional alpha-diversities were correlated with one another. Although the functional alpha-diversity showed a linear correlation with the elevational gradient, taxonomic and phylogenetic alpha-diversities showed unimodal patterns. Both phylogenetic and functional beta-diversities correlated with taxonomic beta-diversity, but there was no significant relationship between the former. Overall, our results evidenced that phylogenetic diversity and taxonomic diversity showed similar patterns, whereas functional diversity showed a relatively independent pattern, which may be due to limitations in the functional trait dimensions used in the present study. Although it is difficult to unravel whether the environment shapes phylogeny or functional traits within a community, phylogenetic diversity is a good proxy for assessing the assembly processes, whereas functional diversity may improve knowledge on the community by maximizing information about the functional trait dimensions. |
WOS关键词 | SPECIES-DIVERSITY ; BETA-DIVERSITY ; ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES ; PLANT-COMMUNITIES ; CONSERVATION ; BIODIVERSITY ; GRADIENTS ; ABUNDANCE ; RICHNESS ; MECHANISMS |
资助项目 | National Natural Science Foundation of China[41571500] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[31600337] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[31700348] ; Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China[2018M643717] |
WOS研究方向 | Forestry |
语种 | 英语 |
出版者 | MDPI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000507288400034 |
资助机构 | National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China |
源URL | [http://ir.ieecas.cn/handle/361006/13160] |
专题 | 地球环境研究所_黄土与第四纪地质国家重点实验室(2010~) |
通讯作者 | Yue, Ming |
作者单位 | 1.Xinjiang Agr Univ, Coll Grassland & Environm Sci, Urumqi 830052, Peoples R China 2.Northwest Univ, Minist Educ, Key Lab Resource Biol & Biotechnol Western China, Xian 710069, Peoples R China 3.Northwest Univ, Sch Life Sci, Xian 710069, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, Xian 710061, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Xu, Jinshi,Dang, Han,Wang, Mao,et al. Is Phylogeny More Useful than Functional Traits for Assessing Diversity Patterns Under Community Assembly Processes?[J]. FORESTS,2019,10(12):11. |
APA | Xu, Jinshi.,Dang, Han.,Wang, Mao.,Chai, Yongfu.,Guo, Yaoxin.,...&Yue, Ming.(2019).Is Phylogeny More Useful than Functional Traits for Assessing Diversity Patterns Under Community Assembly Processes?.FORESTS,10(12),11. |
MLA | Xu, Jinshi,et al."Is Phylogeny More Useful than Functional Traits for Assessing Diversity Patterns Under Community Assembly Processes?".FORESTS 10.12(2019):11. |
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来源:地球环境研究所
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