Publication Date:
2024-01-23
Description:
Understanding how community assembly processes drive biodiversity patterns is a
\ncentral goal of community ecology. While it is generally accepted that ecological communities are assembled by both stochastic and deterministic processes, quantifying
\ntheir relative importance remains challenging. Few studies have investigated how the
\nrelative importance of stochastic and deterministic community assembly processes vary
\namong taxa and along gradients of habitat degradation. Using data on 1645 arthropod species across seven taxonomic groups in Malaysian Borneo, we quantified the
\nimportance of ecological stochasticity and of a suite of community assembly processes
\nacross a gradient of logging intensity. The relationship between logging and community assembly varied depending on the specific combination of taxa and stochasticity
\nmetric used, but, in general, the processes that govern invertebrate community assembly were remarkably robust to changes in land use intensity.
Keywords:
community assembly
;
determinism
;
habitat degradation
;
logging
;
stochasticity
Repository Name:
National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Format:
application/pdf
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