Dissimilarity‐overlap analysis of community dynamics: Opportunities and pitfalls

• Published in: Methods in ecology and evolution Vol. 8; no. 12; pp. 1764 - 1773
• Main Authors: Kalyuzhny, Michael, Shnerb, Nadav M., Kembel, Steven
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London John Wiley & Sons, Inc 01.12.2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Communities; community dynamics; dynamical similarity; Dynamics; ecological communities; ecological gradients; Environmental gradient; environmental stochasticity; human microbiome; microbiome; Neutral Theory; Ricker model; Sampling; Sampling error; sampling errors; Statistical analysis; Stochasticity

Do multiple different communities have similar dynamics? This novel question was recently addressed with the development of the dissimilarity–overlap curve (DOC) method, designed to identify sets of communities with similar (‘universal’) dynamics using pairwise comparison of communities’ composition...