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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
A Phylogenetic Perspective on the Individual Species-Area Relationship in Temperate and Tropical Tree Communities
PLoS ONE, Volume 8, No. 5, Article e63192, Year 2013
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Ecologists have historically used species-area relationships (SARs) as a tool to understand the spatial distribution of species. Recent work has extended SARs to focus on individual-level distributions to generate individual species area relationships (ISARs). The ISAR approach quantifies whether individuals of a species tend have more or less species richness surrounding them than expected by chance. By identifying richness 'accumulators' and 'repellers', respectively, the ISAR approach has been used to infer the relative importance of abiotic and biotic interactions and neutrality. A clear limitation of the SAR and ISAR approaches is that all species are treated as evolutionarily independent and that a large amount of work has now shown that local tree neighborhoods exhibit non-random phylogenetic structure given the species richness. Here, we use nine tropical and temperate forest dynamics plots to ask: (i) do ISARs change predictably across latitude?; (ii) is the phylogenetic diversity in the neighborhood of species accumulators and repellers higher or lower than that expected given the observed species richness?; and (iii) do species accumulators, repellers distributed non-randomly on the community phylogenetic tree? The results indicate no clear trend in ISARs from the temperate zone to the tropics and that the phylogenetic diversity surrounding the individuals of species is generally only non-random on very local scales. Interestingly the distribution of species accumulators and repellers was non-random on the community phylogenies suggesting the presence of phylogenetic signal in the ISAR across latitude. © 2013 Yang et al.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Yang, Jie
China, Kunming
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming
China, Beijing
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Swenson, Nathan G.
United States, East Lansing
Michigan State University
Cao, Min
China, Kunming
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming
Chuyong, George Bindeh
Cameroon, Buea
University of Buea
Ewango, Corneille E.N.
Congo
Centre de Formation et de Recherche en Conservation Forestière Cefrecof Epulu
Howe, Robert W.
United States, Green Bay
University of Wisconsin-green Bay
Kenfack, David
United States, Washington, D.c.
Smithsonian Institution
Thomas, Duncan W.
United States, Corvallis
Oregon State University
Wolf, Amy T.
United States, Green Bay
University of Wisconsin-green Bay
Lin, Luxiang
China, Kunming
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming
Statistics
Citations: 16
Authors: 10
Affiliations: 8
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Doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0063192
e-ISSN:
19326203