A global database for metacommunity ecology, integrating species, traits, environment and space.

ABSTRACT: The use of functional information in the form of species traits plays an important role in explaining biodiversity patterns and responses to environmental changes. Although relationships between species composition, their traits, and the environment have been extensively studied on a case-by-case basis, results are variable, and it remains unclear how generalizable these relationships are across ecosystems, taxa and spatial scales. To address this gap, we collated 80 datasets from trait-based studies into a global database for metaCommunity Ecology: Species, Traits, Environment and Space; "CESTES". Each dataset includes four matrices: species community abundances or presences/absences across multiple sites, species trait information, environmental variables and spatial coordinates of the s

SUBMITTER: Jeliazkov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6949231 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature