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Unifying facilitation and recruitment networks
- Source :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Ecological network studies are providing important advances about the organization, stability and dynamics of ecological systems. However, the ecological networks approach is being integrated very slowly in plant community ecology, even though the first studies on plant facilitation networks (FNs) were published more than a decade ago. The study of interaction networks between established plants and plants recruiting beneath them, which we call Recruitment Networks (RNs), can provide new insights on mechanisms driving plant community structure and dynamics. RNs basically describe which plants recruit under which others, so they can be seen as a generalisation of the classic FNs since they do not imply any particular effect (positive, negative or neutral) of the established plants on recruiting ones. RNs summarise information on the structure of sapling banks. More importantly, the information included in RNs can be incorporated into models of replacement dynamics to evaluate how different aspects of network structure, or different mechanisms of network assembly, may affect plant community stability and species coexistence. To allow an efficient development of the study of FNs and RNs, here we unify concepts, synthesise current knowledge, clarify some conceptual issues, and propose basic methodological guidelines to standardise sampling methods that could make future studies of these networks directly comparable.<br />Red CYTED (P417RT0228), Project COEXMED II and PIROPHENO (CGL2015‐69118‐C2‐1‐P; CGL2017‐89751‐R; Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and FEDER funds from the EU) funded this project.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Future studies
Knowledge management
Replacement dynamics
Strongly connected components
Computer science
Ecology (disciplines)
Canopy–recruit interactions
Network structure
Plant Science
Apling bank
Ecological systems theory
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Recruitment networks
Facilitation networks
Structure (mathematical logic)
Ecology
business.industry
Ecological network
Nurse plants
Ecological networks
Facilitation
Replacement networks
Plant–plant interactions
business
010606 plant biology & botany
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....de6a51376b16996331bed7ae0d2e27e9