Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F15%3A00441305" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/15:00441305 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/15:43888801
Result on the web
<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12403/pdf" target="_blank" >http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12403/pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12403" target="_blank" >10.1111/ele.12403</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants
Original language description
Understanding how species assemble into communities is a key goal in ecology. However, assembly rules are rarely tested experimentally, and their ability to shape real communities is poorly known. We surveyed a diverse community of epiphyte-dwelling antsand found that similar-sized species co-occurred less often than expected. Laboratory experiments demonstrated that invasion was discouraged by the presence of similarly sized resident species. The size difference for which invasion was less likely wasthe same as that for which wild species exhibited reduced co-occurrence. Finally we explored whether our experimentally derived assembly rules could simulate realistic communities. Communities simulated using size-based species assembly exhibited diversities closer to wild communities than those simulated using size-independent assembly, with results being sensitive to the combination of rules employed. Hence, species segregation in the wild can be driven by competitive species assembly,
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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