Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland - Bernard-Verdier, Maud; Navas, Marie-Laure; Vellend, Mark; Violle, Cyrille; Fayolle, Adeline; Garnier, Eric (The Journal of ecology, 2012)
Keywords: Abundance; Agriculture & agronomie; Agriculture & agronomy; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Assembly; Availability; Biological and medical sciences; Biologie végétale (sciences végétales, sylviculture, mycologie...); Coexistence; Communities; Community ecology; Convergence; Determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Divergence; Dry matter; Dry matter content; Ecological competition; ecological differentiation; Environmental conditions; Environmental factors; Environmental filtering; Environmental gradient; Environmental sciences & ecology; Filtration; Flowers & plants; Functional community structure; Functional convergence; Functional divergence; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Gradients; Grassland soils; Grasslands; Habitats; Human ecology; leaf dry matter content; Life sciences; Niches; Null model; Phytobiology (plant sciences, forestry, mycology...); Plant communities; Plant traits; Plants; Rangeland soils; Rangelands; Resource availability; Sciences de l’environnement & écologie; Sciences du vivant; seed weight; Soil; Soil depth; Soil ecology; Soil resource gradient; Soils; Species; Synecology; Trait-environment relationships; variance; Vegetation; MED; Community structure; Plant community; trait―environment relationships; Diversity; functional community structure; functional divergence; Depth; Convergence; Soil resources; Hypothesis test; Soils; functional convergence; null model; Statistical model; Rangeland; environmental filtering; Environment; determinants of plant community diversity and structure; Community; plant traits; soil resource gradient