RecruitNet: A global database of plant recruitment networks.

ABSTRACT: Plant recruitment interactions (i.e., what recruits under what) shape the composition, diversity, and structure of plant communities. Despite the huge body of knowledge on the mechanisms underlying recruitment interactions among species, we still know little about the structure of the recruitment networks emerging in ecological communities. Modeling and analyzing the community-level structure of plant recruitment interactions as a complex network can provide relevant information on ecological and evolutionary processes acting both at the species and ecosystem levels. We report a data set containing 143 plant recruitment networks in 23 countries across five continents, including temperate and tropical ecosystems. Each network identifies the species under which another species recruits. All

SUBMITTER: Verdu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10078134 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature