Trait-mediated environmental filtering drives assembly at biogeographic transition zones
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Trait-mediated environmental filtering drives assembly at biogeographic transition zones.
Abiotic filtering is a major driver of gradients in the structure and functioning of ecosystems from the tropics to the poles. It is thus likely that environmental filtering is an important assembly process at the transition of biogeographical zones where many species occur at their range limits. Shifts in species abundances and association patterns along environmental gradients can be indicati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0012-9658
DOI: 10.1890/13-1445.1