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Directional, stabilizing, and disruptive trait selection as alternative mechanisms for plant community assembly.

Ecology - 1 Mar 2017

Rolhauser Andrés G, Pucheta Eduardo

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How plant functional traits (e.g., seed mass) drive species abundance within communities remains an unsolved question. Borrowing concepts from natural selection theory, we propose that trait-abundance relationships can generally correspond to one of three modes of trait selection: directional (a rectilinear relationship, where species at one end of a trait axis are most abundant), stabilizing (an n-shaped...

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PMID: 28036095
DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1713

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