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Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence
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Significance: Biologists have long understood that differences between species in traits such as bill shape or rooting depth can maintain diversity in communities by promoting specialization and reducing competition. Here we test the assumption that phenotypic differences drive the stabilizing niche differences that promote coexistence. Using advances in ecological theory and detailed experiments we quantify average fitness and stabilizing niche differences between 102 plant species pairs and relate these differences to 11 functional traits. Individual traits were correlated with fitness differences that drive competitive exclusion but not stabilizing niche differences that promote coexistence. Stabilizing niche differences could only be described by combinations of traits, representing differentiation in multiple dimensions. This challenges the simplistic use of trait patterns to infer community assembly.
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- Kraft, N. J. B., Godoy, O., & Levine, J. M.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2015-01-05
- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 797-802
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- OpenAlex
- W1993066286
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- 1,003
- References
- 3
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- 75.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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