期刊
JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE
卷 21, 期 6, 页码 1014-1024出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2010.01210.x
关键词
Community weighted mean of trait; Community weighted variance of trait; Environmental filtering; Structural equation model; Trait-environment linkages
资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Questions How can one explicitly quantify, and separately measure, stress and disturbance gradients? How do these gradients affect functional composition in early successional plant communities and to what extent? Can we accurately predict trait composition from knowledge of these gradients? Location Southern Quebec, Canada. Methods Using eight environmental variables measured in 48 early successional plant communities, we estimated stress and disturbance gradients through structural equation modelling. We then measured 10 functional traits on the most abundant species of these 48 communities and calculated their community-level mean and variance weighted by the relative abundance of each species. Finally, we related these community-weighted means and variances to the estimated stress and disturbance gradients using general linear models or generalized additive models. Results We obtained a well-fitting measurement model of the stress and disturbance gradients existing in our sites. Of the 10 studied traits, only average plant reproductive height was strongly correlated with the stress (r2=0.464) and disturbance (r2=0.543) gradients. Leaf traits were not significantly related to either the stress or disturbance gradients. Conclusions The well-fitting measurement model of the stress and disturbance gradients, combined with the generally weak trait-environment linkages, suggests that community assembly in these early successional plant communities is driven primarily by stochastic processes linked to the history of arrival of propagules and not to trait-based environmental filtering.
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