Mechanistic reconciliation of community and invasion ecology.

ABSTRACT: Community and invasion ecology have mostly grown independently. There is substantial overlap in the processes captured by different models in the two fields, and various frameworks have been developed to reduce this redundancy and synthesize information content. Despite broad recognition that community and invasion ecology are interconnected, a process-based framework synthesizing models across these two fields is lacking. Here we review 65 representative community and invasion models and propose a common framework articulated around six processes (dispersal, drift, abiotic interactions, within-guild interactions, cross-guild interactions, and genetic changes). The framework is designed to synthesize the content of the two fields, provide a general perspective on their development, and ena

SUBMITTER: Latombe G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8647914 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature