Authors
Barbara Lhotsky, Bence Kovács, Gábor Ónodi, Anikó Csecserits, Tamás Rédei, Attila Lengyel, Miklós Kertész, Zoltán Botta‐Dukát
Publication date
2016/3
Journal
Journal of Ecology
Volume
104
Issue
2
Pages
507-517
Description
- A central issue of community ecology is finding rules that explain the composition and abundance of coexisting species. Nowadays two main processes, environmental filtering and limiting similarity, are thought to play the main roles in structuring communities. Their relative importance under different environmental conditions, however, is still not properly clarified.
- We studied the strength and the effect of environmental filtering (causing convergence) and limiting similarity (causing divergence) in 137 sample plots along an extremely long environmental gradient ranging from open sand grasslands to highly productive marshes, using a trait‐based approach. The main environmental gradient (i.e. productivity) was characterized by the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, an indicator of above‐ground live biomass. Cover of the plant species was estimated visually. Values of 11 plant traits were collected from …
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