Plant traits and species interactions along gradients ...

The role of phenology for determining plant-pollinator interactions ...

this effect varies along a latitudinal gradient using empirical data on six plant ... direction by assessing species probability of interaction ...

Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics

Species are also not evenly variable and traits can display idiosyncratic response curves along abiotic gradients (see Supporting Information,. Albert et al., ...

Complex Relationships between Competing Guilds along Large ...

Our results suggest that even simple interactions can give rise to nonobvious changes in species associations along environmental gradients. They highlight that ...

Biodiversity, Species Interactions and Ecological Networks in a ...

We illustrate how habitat fragmentation effects depend on species traits, paying particular at- tention to both mutualistic (plant–pollinator, plant–frugivore, ...

Responses of plant functional types to environmental gradients in ...

Plant functional types across environmental gradients can be considered as a powerful proxy that reveals vegetation–environment ...

4.16 Functional traits - ClimEx Handbook

Plant functional traits are particularly well-studied and traits such as relative growth rate, leaf stoichiometry, and photosynthetic rate can ...

Comparing species interaction networks along environmental ...

As an illustration, we compare approaches to quantify the role of trait matching in driving the structure of plant-hummingbird mutualistic networks, i.e. a ...

Coevolution and the Effects of Climate Change on Interacting Species

We use simple models of competition, predation, and mutualism to organize and synthesize the ways coevolution modifies species interactions when climatic ...

Distribution of Plant Species and Dispersal Traits along ... - MDPI

The CCA (Figure 2) highlights the presence of clear environmental gradients mainly due to altitude, slope and debris cover. The constrained explained variance ...

Functional trait space and the latitudinal diversity gradient - PNAS

Species richness increases toward the equator (1, 2) in major clades of both extant and extinct species of plants and animals (3, 4). The ...

From plant populations to communities: using hierarchical trait ...

of dominant species along the diversity gradient, especially for traits linked to biomass and. 38 space occupation. Two contrasted strategies ...

Drivers of Plant Diversity in Temperate and Tropical Forest Canopies

... gradient: epiphytes, or plants that live non ... Within a single host tree, up to hundreds of different epiphyte species grow along ...

Foraging in a variable world: species interactions across ecological ...

When large herbivores were excluded from 1-ha vegetation plots, flowers were threefold more abundant and 50% more diverse. As a result, pollinators were 20% ...

Data from: Plant traits and species interactions along gradients of N ...

1. Plant performance is driven by nutrient availability. · 2. We studied plant trait responses of three temperate perennial grass species (Alopecurus pratensis, ...

Partitioning changes in ecosystem productivity by effects of species ...

Species interactions affect ecosystem productivity. Positive interactions (resource partitioning and facilitation) increase productivity while negative ...

Competition (biology) - Wikipedia

Competitive exclusion principle · 1: a smaller (yellow) species of bird forages across whole tree. · 2: a larger (red) species competes for resources. · 3: red ...

Species richness - Wikipedia

Species richness has proven to be a positive representation to show how species interaction in ecosystems can lead to the productivity and growth of ...

Tropical rainforest | Definition, Characteristics, Location, Climate ...

They not only retain many primitive plant and animal species but ... along the coast rather than across it. Mean temperatures in ...

Changes in basal resources mediate the effects of Eucalyptus spp ...

We computed Functional Dispersion (FDis) to assess functional diversity based on the relative density of taxa in each trait category. FDis ...