Succession comprises a sequence of threshold-induced community assembly processes towards multidiversity.

ABSTRACT: Research on successions and community assembly both address the same processes such as dispersal, species sorting, and biotic interactions but lack unifying concepts. Recent theoretical advances integrated both research lines proposing a sequence of stochastic and deterministic processes along successional gradients. Shifts in ecosystem states along successional gradients are predicted to occur abruptly once abiotic and biotic factors dominate over dispersal as main driver. Considering the multidiversity composed of five organismal groups including plants, animals, and microbes, our results imply that stochastic, likely dispersal-dominated, processes are replaced by rather deterministic processes such as environmental filtering and biotic interactions after around 60 years of succession in

SUBMITTER: Hanusch M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9076875 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature