Functional characteristics rather than co‐occurrences determine the outcome of interactions between neighbouring plants in sub‐Antarctic ponds: Consequences for macrophyte community biomass ...
Understanding of the mechanisms underlying species coexistence within plant communities is crucial to predict their fate given the current context of biodiversity loss. Freshwater ecosystems are among the most abiotically constrained habitats because they harbour clonal macrophyte communities. Stron...
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Wiley
2023
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.48350/198411 https://boris.unibe.ch/198411/ |
| Summary: | Understanding of the mechanisms underlying species coexistence within plant communities is crucial to predict their fate given the current context of biodiversity loss. Freshwater ecosystems are among the most abiotically constrained habitats because they harbour clonal macrophyte communities. Strong habitat filtering in these ecosystems influences the functional composition and diversity of macrophyte communities, determining the outcome of interactions between neighbours and ultimately affecting local spatial arrangement between neighbours (LSA). This influence may be modulated by environmental conditions in abiotically constrained habitats, such as freshwater ecosystems. We focused on macrophyte communities living in ponds in the Iles Kerguelen, in the sub-Antarctic. These freshwater ecosystems are especially abiotically constrained (cold climate), and their plant communities are remarkably species-poor, simplifying the study of interactions between neighbours. We measured several abiotic variables in the ... |
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