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A predictive model of community assembly that incorporates intraspecific trait variation.
Ecology letters - 1 Nov 2012
Laughlin Daniel C, Joshi Chaitanya, van Bodegom Peter M, Bastow Zachary A, Fulé Peter Z
Abstract excerpt
Community assembly involves two antagonistic processes that select functional traits in opposite directions. Environmental filtering tends to increase the functional similarity of species within communities leading to trait convergence, whereas competition tends to limit the functional similarity of species within communities leading to trait divergence. Here, we introduce a new hierarchical Bayesian model that...
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