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Patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic diversity during a long-term succession of forest on the Loess Plateau, China: insights into assembly process
Quantifying the drivers underlying the distribution of biodiversity during succession is a critical issue in ecology and conservation, and also can provide insights into the mechanisms of community assembly. Ninety plots were established in the Loess Plateau region of northern Shaanxi in China. The...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4897607/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27272407 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep27087 |
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author | Chai, Yongfu Yue, Ming Liu, Xiao Guo, Yaoxin Wang, Mao Xu, Jinshi Zhang, Chenguang Chen, Yu Zhang, Lixia Zhang, Ruichang |
author_facet | Chai, Yongfu Yue, Ming Liu, Xiao Guo, Yaoxin Wang, Mao Xu, Jinshi Zhang, Chenguang Chen, Yu Zhang, Lixia Zhang, Ruichang |
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description | Quantifying the drivers underlying the distribution of biodiversity during succession is a critical issue in ecology and conservation, and also can provide insights into the mechanisms of community assembly. Ninety plots were established in the Loess Plateau region of northern Shaanxi in China. The taxonomic and phylogenetic (alpha and beta) diversity were quantified within six succession stages. Null models were used to test whether phylogenetic distance observed differed from random expectations. Taxonomic beta diversity did not show a regular pattern, while phylogenetic beta diversity decreased throughout succession. The shrub stage occurred as a transition from phylogenetic overdispersion to clustering either for NRI (Net Relatedness Index) or betaNRI. The betaNTI (Nearest Taxon Index) values for early stages were on average phylogenetically random, but for the betaNRI analyses, these stages were phylogenetically overdispersed. Assembly of woody plants differed from that of herbaceous plants during late community succession. We suggest that deterministic and stochastic processes respectively play a role in different aspects of community phylogenetic structure for early succession stage, and that community composition of late succession stage is governed by a deterministic process. In conclusion, the long-lasting evolutionary imprints on the present-day composition of communities arrayed along the succession gradient. |
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spelling | pubmed-48976072016-06-10 Patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic diversity during a long-term succession of forest on the Loess Plateau, China: insights into assembly process Chai, Yongfu Yue, Ming Liu, Xiao Guo, Yaoxin Wang, Mao Xu, Jinshi Zhang, Chenguang Chen, Yu Zhang, Lixia Zhang, Ruichang Sci Rep Article Quantifying the drivers underlying the distribution of biodiversity during succession is a critical issue in ecology and conservation, and also can provide insights into the mechanisms of community assembly. Ninety plots were established in the Loess Plateau region of northern Shaanxi in China. The taxonomic and phylogenetic (alpha and beta) diversity were quantified within six succession stages. Null models were used to test whether phylogenetic distance observed differed from random expectations. Taxonomic beta diversity did not show a regular pattern, while phylogenetic beta diversity decreased throughout succession. The shrub stage occurred as a transition from phylogenetic overdispersion to clustering either for NRI (Net Relatedness Index) or betaNRI. The betaNTI (Nearest Taxon Index) values for early stages were on average phylogenetically random, but for the betaNRI analyses, these stages were phylogenetically overdispersed. Assembly of woody plants differed from that of herbaceous plants during late community succession. We suggest that deterministic and stochastic processes respectively play a role in different aspects of community phylogenetic structure for early succession stage, and that community composition of late succession stage is governed by a deterministic process. In conclusion, the long-lasting evolutionary imprints on the present-day composition of communities arrayed along the succession gradient. Nature Publishing Group 2016-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4897607/ /pubmed/27272407 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep27087 Text en Copyright © 2016, Macmillan Publishers Limited http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Chai, Yongfu Yue, Ming Liu, Xiao Guo, Yaoxin Wang, Mao Xu, Jinshi Zhang, Chenguang Chen, Yu Zhang, Lixia Zhang, Ruichang Patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic diversity during a long-term succession of forest on the Loess Plateau, China: insights into assembly process |
title | Patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic diversity during a long-term succession of forest on the Loess Plateau, China: insights into assembly process |
title_full | Patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic diversity during a long-term succession of forest on the Loess Plateau, China: insights into assembly process |
title_fullStr | Patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic diversity during a long-term succession of forest on the Loess Plateau, China: insights into assembly process |
title_full_unstemmed | Patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic diversity during a long-term succession of forest on the Loess Plateau, China: insights into assembly process |
title_short | Patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic diversity during a long-term succession of forest on the Loess Plateau, China: insights into assembly process |
title_sort | patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic diversity during a long-term succession of forest on the loess plateau, china: insights into assembly process |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4897607/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27272407 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep27087 |
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