Analysing taxonomic structures and local ecological processes in temperate forests in North Eastern China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the core issues of forest community ecology is the exploration of how ecological processes affect community structure. The relative importance of different processes is still under debate. This study addresses four questions: (1) how is the taxonomic structure of a forest community affected by spatial scale? (2) does the taxonomic structure reveal effects of local processes such as environmental filtering, dispersal limitation or interspecific competition at a local scale? (3) does the effect of local processes on the taxonomic structure vary with the spatial scale? (4) does the analysis based on taxonomic structures provide similar insights when compared with the use of phylogenetic information? Based on the data collected in two large forest observational field

SUBMITTER: Fan C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5663035 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature