期刊
ECOLOGY
卷 89, 期 12, 页码 3534-3541出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1890/07-1646.1
关键词
community dynamics; proportional persistence; rank-abundance curves; rank clock; rank shifts; species diversity; temporal dynamics
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资金
- Long Term Ecological Research Network Office
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [823341] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/F029756/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- ESRC [ES/F029756/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Summarizing complex temporal dynamics in communities is difficult to achieve in a way that yields an intuitive picture of change. Rank clocks and rank abundance statistics provide a graphical and analytical framework for displaying and quantifying community dynamics. We used rank clocks, in which the rank order abundance for each species is plotted over time in temporal clockwise direction, to display temporal changes in species abundances and richness. We used mean rank shift and proportional species persistence to quantify changes in community structure in long-term data sets from fertilized and control plots in a late successional old field, frequently and infrequently burned tallgrass prairie, and Chihuahuan desert grassland and shrubland communities. Rank clocks showed that relatively constant species richness masks considerable temporal dynamics in relative species abundances. In the old field, fertilized plots initially experienced high mean rank shifts that stabilized rapidly below that of unfertilized plots. Rank shifts were higher in infrequently burned vs. annually burned tallgrass prairie and in desert grassland compared to shrubland vegetation. Proportional persistence showed that and grasslands were more dynamic than mesic grasslands. We conclude that rank clocks and rank abundance statistics provide important insights into community dynamics that are often hidden by traditional univariate approaches.
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