期刊
ECOLOGY LETTERS
卷 18, 期 3, 页码 221-235出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12399
关键词
Antecedent conditions; hierarchical Bayesian model; lag effects; legacy effects; net primary production; soil respiration; stomatal conductance; time-series; tree growth; tree rings
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资金
- DOE-NICCR
- NSF [NSF-DEB 0415977, NSF-IOS 0418134]
- US National Park Service
- Philecology Foundation of Fort Worth Texas
- Irvine Company
The role of time in ecology has a long history of investigation, but ecologists have largely restricted their attention to the influence of concurrent abiotic conditions on rates and magnitudes of important ecological processes. Recently, however, ecologists have improved their understanding of ecological processes by explicitly considering the effects of antecedent conditions. To broadly help in studying the role of time, we evaluate the length, temporal pattern, and strength of memory with respect to the influence of antecedent conditions on current ecological dynamics. We developed the stochastic antecedent modelling (SAM) framework as a flexible analytic approach for evaluating exogenous and endogenous process components of memory in a system of interest. We designed SAM to be useful in revealing novel insights promoting further study, illustrated in four examples with different degrees of complexity and varying time scales: stomatal conductance, soil respiration, ecosystem productivity, and tree growth. Models with antecedent effects explained an additional 18-28% of response variation compared to models without antecedent effects. Moreover, SAM also enabled identification of potential mechanisms that underlie components of memory, thus revealing temporal properties that are not apparent from traditional treatments of ecological time-series data and facilitating new hypothesis generation and additional research.
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