Phylogenetic turnover during subtropical forest succession across environmental and phylogenetic scales.

ABSTRACT: Although spatial and temporal patterns of phylogenetic community structure during succession are inherently interlinked and assembly processes vary with environmental and phylogenetic scales, successional studies of community assembly have yet to integrate spatial and temporal components of community structure, while accounting for scaling issues. To gain insight into the processes that generate biodiversity after disturbance, we combine analyses of spatial and temporal phylogenetic turnover across phylogenetic scales, accounting for covariation with environmental differences. We compared phylogenetic turnover, at the species- and individual-level, within and between five successional stages, representing woody plant communities in a subtropical forest chronosequence. We decomposed turnove

SUBMITTER: Michalski SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5743486 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature