1. Distance decay 2.0. A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities
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Caio Graco‐Roza, Sonja Aarnio, Nerea Abrego, Alicia T. R. Acosta, Janne Alahuhta, Jan Altman, Claudia Angiolini, Jukka Aroviita, Fabio Attorre, Lars Baastrup‐Spohr, José J. Barrera‐Alba, Jonathan Belmaker, Idoia Biurrun, Gianmaria Bonari, Helge Bruelheide, Sabina Burrascano, Marta Carboni, Pedro Cardoso, José C. Carvalho, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Morten Christensen, Gilsineia Correa, Iwona Dembicz, Jürgen Dengler, Jiri Dolezal, Patricia Domingos, Tibor Erös, Carlos E. L. Ferreira, Goffredo Filibeck, Sergio R. Floeter, Alan M. Friedlander, Johanna Gammal, Anna Gavioli, Martin M. Gossner, Itai Granot, Riccardo Guarino, Camilla Gustafsson, Brian Hayden, Siwen He, Jacob Heilmann‐Clausen, Jani Heino, John T. Hunter, Vera L. M. Huszar, Monika Janišová, Jenny Jyrkänkallio‐Mikkola, Kimmo K. Kahilainen, Julia Kemppinen, Łukasz Kozub, Carla Kruk, Michel Kulbiki, Anna Kuzemko, Peter Christiaan le Roux, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Domênica Teixeira de Lima, Angel Lopez‐Urrutia, Balázs A. Lukács, Miska Luoto, Stefano Mammola, Marcelo M. Marinho, Luciana S. Menezes, Marco Milardi, Marcela Miranda, Gleyci A. O. Moser, Joerg Mueller, Pekka Niittynen, Alf Norkko, Arkadiusz Nowak, Jean P. Ometto, Otso Ovaskainen, Gerhard E. Overbeck, Felipe S. Pacheco, Virpi Pajunen, Salza Palpurina, Félix Picazo, Juan Antonio Campos, Iván F. Rodil, Francesco M. Sabatini, Shira Salingré, Michele De Sanctis, Angel M. Segura, Lucia H. S. da Silva, Zora D. Stevanovic, Grzegorz Swacha, Anette Teittinen, Kimmo T. Tolonen, Ioannis Tsiripidis, Leena Virta, Beixin Wang, Jianjun Wang, Wolfgang Weisser, Yuan Xu, Janne Soininen, Graco-Roza C., Aarnio S., Abrego N., Acosta A.T.R., Alahuhta J., Altman J., Angiolini C., Aroviita J., Attorre F., Baastrup-Spohr L., Barrera-Alba J.J., Belmaker J., Biurrun I., Bonari G., Bruelheide H., Burrascano S., Carboni M., Cardoso P., Carvalho J.C., Castaldelli G., Christensen M., Correa G., Dembicz I., Dengler J., Dolezal J., Domingos P., Eros T., Ferreira C.E.L., Filibeck G., Floeter S.R., Friedlander A.M., Gammal J., Gavioli A., Gossner M.M., Granot I., Guarino R., Gustafsson C., Hayden B., He S., Heilmann-Clausen J., Heino J., Hunter J.T., Huszar V.L.M., Janisova M., Jyrkankallio-Mikkola J., Kahilainen K.K., Kemppinen J., Kozub L., Kruk C., Kulbiki M., Kuzemko A., Christiaan le Roux P., Lehikoinen A., Teixeira de Lima D., Lopez-Urrutia A., Lukacs B.A., Luoto M., Mammola S., Marinho M.M., Menezes L.S., Milardi M., Miranda M., Moser G.A.O., Mueller J., Niittynen P., Norkko A., Nowak A., Ometto J.P., Ovaskainen O., Overbeck G.E., Pacheco F.S., Pajunen V., Palpurina S., Picazo F., Prieto J.A.C., Rodil I.F., Sabatini F.M., Salingre S., De Sanctis M., Segura A.M., da Silva L.H.S., Stevanovic Z.D., Swacha G., Teittinen A., Tolonen K.T., Tsiripidis I., Virta L., Wang B., Wang J., Weisser W., Xu Y., Soininen J., Suomen ympäristökeskus, The Finnish Environment Institute, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Plant Production Sciences, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Zoology, Tvärminne Benthic Ecology Team, Marine Ecosystems Research Group, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Biological stations, Tvärminne Zoological Station, Faculty Common Matters (Faculty of Biology and Environmental Sciences), Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), BioGeoClimate Modelling Lab, Finnish Museum of Natural History, Biosciences, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Otso Ovaskainen / Principal Investigator, European Commission, Anna Kuzemko, Caio Graco Rodrigues Leandro Roza, Pedro Cardoso, Lars Baastrup-Spohr, Otso Ovaskainen, Sergio Floeter, Lukasz Kozub, Miska Luoto, Jianjun Wang, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Janne Soininen, Janne Alahuhta, Kimmo Kahilainen, Pekka Niittynen, Ivan Rodil, Iwona Dembicz, Claudia Angiolini, Julia Kemppinen, Fabio Attorre, Idoia Biurrun, Jukka Aroviita, Ioannis Tsiripidis, Riccardo Guarino, Jürgen Dengler, Jani Heino, Gleyci A. Moser, Félix Picazo, Lúcia H. S. Silva, Alicia T. R. Acosta, Jean Pierre Ometto, Camilla Gustafsson, Graco‐Roza, Caio, Aarnio, Sonja, Abrego, Nerea, Acosta, Alicia T. R., Alahuhta, Janne, Altman, Jan, Angiolini, Claudia, Aroviita, Jukka, Attorre, Fabio, Baastrup‐Spohr, Lar, Barrera‐Alba, José J., Belmaker, Jonathan, Biurrun, Idoia, Bonari, Gianmaria, Bruelheide, Helge, Burrascano, Sabina, Carboni, Marta, Cardoso, Pedro, Carvalho, José C., Castaldelli, Giuseppe, Christensen, Morten, Correa, Gilsineia, Dembicz, Iwona, Dengler, Jürgen, Dolezal, Jiri, Domingos, Patricia, Erös, Tibor, Ferreira, Carlos E. L., Filibeck, Goffredo, Floeter, Sergio R., Friedlander, Alan M., Gammal, Johanna, Gavioli, Anna, Gossner, Martin M., Granot, Itai, Guarino, Riccardo, Gustafsson, Camilla, Hayden, Brian, He, Siwen, Heilmann‐Clausen, Jacob, Heino, Jani, Hunter, John T., Huszar, Vera L. M., Janišová, Monika, Jyrkänkallio‐Mikkola, Jenny, Kahilainen, Kimmo K., Kemppinen, Julia, Kozub, Łukasz, Kruk, Carla, Kulbiki, Michel, Kuzemko, Anna, Christiaan le Roux, Peter, Lehikoinen, Aleksi, Teixeira de Lima, Domênica, Lopez‐Urrutia, Angel, Lukács, Balázs A., Luoto, Miska, Mammola, Stefano, Marinho, Marcelo M., Menezes, Luciana S., Milardi, Marco, Miranda, Marcela, Moser, Gleyci A. O., Mueller, Joerg, Niittynen, Pekka, Norkko, Alf, Nowak, Arkadiusz, Ometto, Jean P., Ovaskainen, Otso, Overbeck, Gerhard E., Pacheco, Felipe S., Pajunen, Virpi, Palpurina, Salza, Picazo, Félix, Prieto, Juan A. C., Rodil, Iván F., Sabatini, Francesco M., Salingré, Shira, De Sanctis, Michele, Segura, Angel M., da Silva, Lucia H. S., Stevanovic, Zora D., Swacha, Grzegorz, Teittinen, Anette, Tolonen, Kimmo T., Tsiripidis, Ioanni, Virta, Leena, Wang, Beixin, Wang, Jianjun, Weisser, Wolfgang, Xu, Yuan, Soininen, Janne, Graco-Roza, Caio, Acosta, Alicia T R, Baastrup-Spohr, Lar, Barrera-Alba, José J, Carvalho, José C, Ferreira, Carlos E L, Floeter, Sergio R, Friedlander, Alan M, Gossner, Martin M, Heilmann-Clausen, Jacob, Hunter, John T, Huszar, Vera L M, Jyrkänkallio-Mikkola, Jenny, Kahilainen, Kimmo K, Lopez-Urrutia, Angel, Lukács, Balázs A, Marinho, Marcelo M, Menezes, Luciana S, Moser, Gleyci A O, Ometto, Jean P, Overbeck, Gerhard E, Pacheco, Felipe S, Prieto, Juan A C, Rodil, Iván F, Sabatini, Francesco M, Segura, Angel M, da Silva, Lucia H S, Stevanovic, Zora D, and Tolonen, Kimmo T
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environmental gradient ,ASSEMBLY PROCESSES ,latitudinal gradient ,333.7: Landflächen, Naturerholungsgebiete ,Trait ,access ,β-diversity ,DRIVERS ,Quantitative Biology::Populations and Evolution ,spatial distance ,beta-diversity, biogeography, environmental gradient, spatial distance, trait ,SCALE DEPENDENCY ,Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón ,biodiversity ,Global and Planetary Change ,Ecology ,trait ,drivers ,eliöyhteisöt ,ekologia ,ENVIRONMENTAL-CONDITIONS ,Biogeography ,SIMILARITY ,1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology ,Spatial distance ,1171 Geosciences ,beta-diversity ,biogeography ,scale dependency ,β- diversity ,beta-diversity patterns ,β‐diversity ,eliömaantiede ,4111 Agronomy ,β-diversity, biogeography, environmental gradient, spatial distance, trait ,species traits ,distribution ,environmental-conditions ,Environmental gradient ,assembly processes ,Medio Marino ,similarity ,1172 Environmental sciences ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,biodiversiteetti ,LATITUDINAL GRADIENT ,responses ,BIODIVERSITY ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,BETA-DIVERSITY PATTERNS ,SPECIES TRAITS ,RESPONSES - Abstract
Caio Graco-Roza was funded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), the Carlos Chagas Filho Research Support Foundation (FAPERJ) and the Ella and Georg Erhnrooth Foundation; Jan Altman by research grants INTER-EXCELLENCE LTAUSA19137 provided by Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, 20-05840Y of the Czech Science Foundation, and long-term research development project no. RVO 67985939 of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Otso Ovaskainen was funded by Academy of Finland (grant no. 309581), Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence Funding Scheme (223257), and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 856506; ERC-synergy project LIFEPLAN); and Jianjun Wang was funded by CAS Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences (QYZDB-SSW-DQC043) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (91851117). The "sPlot" project was initiated by sDiv, the Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG FZT 118), and is now a platform of iDiv. The study was supported by the TRY initiative on plant traits (). We are also grateful to Jens Kattge and TRY database. TRY is hosted, developed and maintained at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI-BGC) in Jena, Germany, in collaboration with the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. The CESTES database of metacommunities is also an initiative of iDiv led by Alienor Jeliazkov. We thank sDiv for supporting the open science initiative., Aim: Understanding the variation in community composition and species abundances (i.e., β-diversity) is at the heart of community ecology. A common approach to examine β-diversity is to evaluate directional variation in community composition by measuring the decay in the similarity among pairs of communities along spatial or environmental distance. We provide the first global synthesis of taxonomic and functional distance decay along spatial and environmental distance by analysing 148 datasets comprising different types of organisms and environments. Location: Global. Time period: 1990 to present. Major taxa studied: From diatoms to mammals. Method: We measured the strength of the decay using ranked Mantel tests (Mantel r) and the rate of distance decay as the slope of an exponential fit using generalized linear models. We used null models to test whether functional similarity decays faster or slower than expected given the taxonomic decay along the spatial and environmental distance. We also unveiled the factors driving the rate of decay across the datasets, including latitude, spatial extent, realm and organismal features. Results: Taxonomic distance decay was stronger than functional distance decay along both spatial and environmental distance. Functional distance decay was random given the taxonomic distance decay. The rate of taxonomic and functional spatial distance decay was fastest in the datasets from mid-latitudes. Overall, datasets covering larger spatial extents showed a lower rate of decay along spatial distance but a higher rate of decay along environmental distance. Marine ecosystems had the slowest rate of decay along environmental distances. Main conclusions: In general, taxonomic distance decay is a useful tool for biogeographical research because it reflects dispersal-related factors in addition to species responses to climatic and environmental variables. Moreover, functional distance decay might be a cost-effective option for investigating community changes in heterogeneous environments., Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES) Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio De Janeiro (FAPERJ), Ella and Georg Erhnrooth Foundation, Ministry of Education, Youth & Sports - Czech Republic LTAUSA19137 Grant Agency of the Czech Republic 20-05840Y Czech Academy of Sciences RVO 67985939, Academy of Finland 309581, Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, Research Council of Norway through its Centres of Excellence Funding Scheme 223257, European Research Council (ERC) 856506, CAS Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences QYZDB-SSW-DQC043, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 91851117, German Research Foundation (DFG) DFG FZT 118, TRY initiative on plant traits
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