Species coexistence in a changing world
The consequences of global change for the maintenance of species diversity will depend on the sum of each species responses to the environment and on the interactions among them. A wide ecological literature supports that these species-specific responses can arise from factors related to life strate...
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| author | Fernando eValladares Fernando eValladares Cristina C. Bastias Oscar eGodoy Elena eGranda Elena eGranda Adrian eEscudero |
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| description | The consequences of global change for the maintenance of species diversity will depend on the sum of each species responses to the environment and on the interactions among them. A wide ecological literature supports that these species-specific responses can arise from factors related to life strategies, evolutionary history and intraspecific variation, and also from environmental variation in space and time. In the light of recent advances from coexistence theory combined with mechanistic explanations of diversity maintenance, we discuss how global change drivers can influence species coexistence. We revise the importance of both competition and facilitation for understanding coexistence in different ecosystems, address the influence of phylogenetic relatedness, functional traits, phenotypic plasticity and intraspecific variability, and discuss lessons learnt from invasion ecology. While most previous studies have focused their efforts on disentangling the mechanisms that maintain the biological diversity in species-rich ecosystems such as tropical forests, grasslands and coral reefs, we argue that much can be learnt from pauci-specific communities where functional variability within each species, together with demographic and stochastic processes becomes key to understand species interactions and eventually community responses to global change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-470ae784e8f74383a3c35274d53edf852022-12-22T00:41:40ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2015-10-01610.3389/fpls.2015.00866146279Species coexistence in a changing worldFernando eValladares0Fernando eValladares1Cristina C. Bastias2Oscar eGodoy3Elena eGranda4Elena eGranda5Adrian eEscudero6Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)Universidad Rey Juan CarlosConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC)Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla CSICUniv. Paris-Sud, Laboratoire Ecologie Systématique et EvolutionCNRSUniversidad Rey Juan CarlosThe consequences of global change for the maintenance of species diversity will depend on the sum of each species responses to the environment and on the interactions among them. A wide ecological literature supports that these species-specific responses can arise from factors related to life strategies, evolutionary history and intraspecific variation, and also from environmental variation in space and time. In the light of recent advances from coexistence theory combined with mechanistic explanations of diversity maintenance, we discuss how global change drivers can influence species coexistence. We revise the importance of both competition and facilitation for understanding coexistence in different ecosystems, address the influence of phylogenetic relatedness, functional traits, phenotypic plasticity and intraspecific variability, and discuss lessons learnt from invasion ecology. While most previous studies have focused their efforts on disentangling the mechanisms that maintain the biological diversity in species-rich ecosystems such as tropical forests, grasslands and coral reefs, we argue that much can be learnt from pauci-specific communities where functional variability within each species, together with demographic and stochastic processes becomes key to understand species interactions and eventually community responses to global change.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2015.00866/fullClimate Changeglobal changecompetitionfunctional traitsheterogeneityfacilitation |
| spellingShingle | Fernando eValladares Fernando eValladares Cristina C. Bastias Oscar eGodoy Elena eGranda Elena eGranda Adrian eEscudero Species coexistence in a changing world Frontiers in Plant Science Climate Change global change competition functional traits heterogeneity facilitation |
| title | Species coexistence in a changing world |
| title_full | Species coexistence in a changing world |
| title_fullStr | Species coexistence in a changing world |
| title_full_unstemmed | Species coexistence in a changing world |
| title_short | Species coexistence in a changing world |
| title_sort | species coexistence in a changing world |
| topic | Climate Change global change competition functional traits heterogeneity facilitation |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2015.00866/full |
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