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DOI	10.1111/ele.12403
	Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants
	Fayle T.M.; Eggleton P.; Manica A.; Yusah K.M.; Foster W.A.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	1461-023X
EISSN	1461-0248
卷号	18 期号:3
英文摘要	Understanding how species assemble into communities is a key goal in ecology. However, assembly rules are rarely tested experimentally, and their ability to shape real communities is poorly known. We surveyed a diverse community of epiphyte-dwelling ants and found that similar-sized species co-occurred less often than expected. Laboratory experiments demonstrated that invasion was discouraged by the presence of similarly sized resident species. The size difference for which invasion was less likely was the same as that for which wild species exhibited reduced co-occurrence. Finally we explored whether our experimentally derived assembly rules could simulate realistic communities. Communities simulated using size-based species assembly exhibited diversities closer to wild communities than those simulated using size-independent assembly, with results being sensitive to the combination of rules employed. Hence, species segregation in the wild can be driven by competitive species assembly, and this process is sufficient to generate observed species abundance distributions for tropical epiphyte-dwelling ants. © 2015 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and CNRS.
英文关键词	Asplenium; Bird's nest fern; Diffuse competition; Epiphyte; Formicidae; Microcosm; Mutualism; Nearest neighbour competition; Rainforest
学科领域	Asplenium; Asplenium nidus; Aves; Formicidae; animal; ant; biological model; biota; Borneo; competitive behavior; introduced species; symbiosis; Animals; Ants; Biota; Borneo; Competitive Behavior; Introduced Species; Models, Biological; Symbiosis
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Asplenium; Asplenium nidus; Aves; Formicidae; animal; ant; biological model; biota; Borneo; competitive behavior; introduced species; symbiosis; Animals; Ants; Biota; Borneo; Competitive Behavior; Introduced Species; Models, Biological; Symbiosis
来源期刊	Ecology Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/118650
作者单位	Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech Republic and Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice, 370 05, Czech Republic; Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, United Kingdom; Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, 88400, Malaysia; Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW6 5BD, United Kingdom; Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom; Insect Ecology Group, University Museum of Zoology Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fayle T.M.,Eggleton P.,Manica A.,et al. Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants[J],2015,18(3).
APA	Fayle T.M.,Eggleton P.,Manica A.,Yusah K.M.,&Foster W.A..(2015).Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants.Ecology Letters,18(3).
MLA	Fayle T.M.,et al."Experimentally testing and assessing the predictive power of species assembly rules for tropical canopy ants".Ecology Letters 18.3(2015).