Assessing the effects of spatial contingency and environmental filtering on metacommunity phylogenetics

摘要: Patterns in biodiversity and species coexistence are the result of multiple interacting processes including evolutionary history, trait variation, interactions, dispersal, environmental landscape heterogeneity. Exploring patterns across space is perhaps best integrative method (in contrast to scarcity temporal data) interpret influence these interactive effects determining community assembly, but it still underdeveloped. Two emerging fields, metacommunity ecology phylogenetics, have been making relevant, though rather independent, progress toward understanding how communities assembled space. Our main goals were twofold. First, we described a heuristical framework merge two fields into “metacommunity phylogenetics.” The goal this provide way think about niche properties arranged environment different spatial scales process ...