2024-03-29T11:56:23Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/541882021-12-28T15:53:42Zcom_10261_15com_10261_6com_10261_57com_10261_8col_10261_268col_10261_310
Verdú, Miguel
Gómez Aparicio, Lorena
Valiente-Banuet, Alfonso
2012-07-30T11:13:20Z
2012-07-30T11:13:20Z
2012-05-07
Proceedings B: Biological Sciences 279(1734): 1761-1767 (2012)
0962-8452
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/54188
10.1098/rspb.2011.2268
1471-2954
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003767
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100005739
22158955
Biotic interactions assembling plant communities can be positive (facilitation) or negative (competition) and operate simultaneously. Facilitative interactions and posterior competition are among the mechanisms triggering succession, thus representing a good scenario for ecological restoration. As distantly related species tend to have different phenotypes, and therefore different ecological requirements, they can coexist, maximizing facilitation and minimizing competition. We suggest including phylogenetic relatedness together with phenotypic information as a predictor for the net effects of the balance between facilitation and competition in nurse-based restoration experiments. We quantify, by means of a Bayesian meta-analysis of nurse-based restoration experiments performed worldwide, the importance of phylogenetic relatedness and life-form disparity in the survival, growth and density of facilitated plants. We find that the more similar the life forms of neighbouring plants are the greater the positive effect of phylogenetic distance is on survival and density. This result suggests that other characteristics beyond life form are also contained in the phylogeny, and the larger the phylogenetic distance, the less is the niche overlap, and therefore the less is the competition. As a general rule, we can maximize the success of the nurse-based practices by increasing life-form disparity and phylogenetic distances between the neighbour and the facilitated plant.
eng
openAccess
Bayesian meta-analysis
Competition
Facilitation
Plant coexistence
Phylogenetic relatedness as a tool in restoration ecology: a meta-analysis
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