▪ Abstract Because it lays the template from which communities develop, the pattern of
dispersed seed is commonly believed to influence community structure. To test the validity of …

Ecologists interested in seed size have generally contrasted functional groups of plants but,
recently, some have focussed on explaining the large range of seed size found within a …

Probably no ecologist in the world with even a modicum of field experience would seriously
question the existence of niche differences among competing species on the same trophic …

Mechanistic models of community assembly state that biotic and abiotic filters constrain
species establishment through selection on their functional traits. Predicting this assembly …

Since the publication of the unified neutral theory in 2001, there has been much discussion
of the theory, pro and con. The hypothesis of ecological equivalence is the fundamental yet …

A plant community is an assemblage of plant populations that live in certain area, and
interact with and adapt to one another in the context of long-term environmental changes …

Theories of tropical tree diversity emphasize dispersal limitation as a potential mechanism
for separating species in space and reducing competitive exclusion. We compared the …

Both habitat filtering and dispersal limitation influence the compositional structure of forest
communities, but previous studies examining the relative contributions of these processes …

Seed size commonly varies by five to six orders of magnitude among coexisting plant
species, a pattern ecologists have long sought to explain. Because seed size trades off with …

植物群落是不同植物在长期环境变化中相互作用, 相互适应而形成的组合.
它提供着人类赖以生存的主要物质资源, 维系着地球生态系统的健康和功能 …