Dissecting spatiotemporal patterns of functional diversity through the lens of Darwin's naturalization conundrum.

ABSTRACT: Darwin's naturalization conundrum describes the paradigm that community assembly is regulated by two opposing processes, environmental filtering and competitive interactions, which predict both similarity and distinctiveness of species to be important for establishment. Our goal is to use long-term, large-scale, and high-resolution temporal data to examine diversity patterns over time and assess whether environmental filtering or competition plays a larger role in regulating community assembly processes. We evaluated Darwin's naturalization conundrum and how functional diversity has changed in the Laurentian Great Lakes fish community from 1870 to 2010, which has experienced frequent introductions of non-native species and extirpations of native species. We analyzed how functional diversit

SUBMITTER: Campbell SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5468161 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature