Perspectives for ecological networks in plant ecology
Losapio, Gianalberto ; Montesinos-Navarro, Alicia ; Saiz, Hugo
Resumen: Background: Plant communities are usually characterised by species composition and abundance, but also underlie a multitude of complex interactions that we have only recently started unveiling. Yet, we are still far from understanding ecological and evolutionary processes shaping the network-level organisation of plant diversity, and to what extent these processes are specific to certain spatial scales or environments.
Aims: Understanding the systemic mechanisms of plant–plant network assembly and their consequences for diversity patterns.
Methods: We review recent methods and results of plant–plant networks.
Results: We synthetize how plant–plant networks can help us to: (a) assess how competition and facilitation may balance each other through the network; (b) analyse the role of plantplant interactions beyond pairwise competition in structuring plant communities, and (c) forecast the ecological implications of complex species dependencies. We discuss pros and cons, assumptions and limitations of different approaches used for inferring plant–plant networks.
Conclusions: We propose novel opportunities for advancing plant ecology by using ecological networks that encompass different ecological levels and spatio-temporal scales, and incorporate more biological information. Embracing networks of interactions among plants can shed new light on mechanisms driving evolution and ecosystem functioning, helping us to mitigate diversity loss.
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2019.1626509
Año: 2019
Publicado en: PLANT ECOLOGY & DIVERSITY 12, 2 (2019), 87-102
ISSN: 1755-0874
Factor impacto JCR: 1.196 (2019)
Categ. JCR: PLANT SCIENCES rank: 146 / 234 = 0.624 (2019) - Q3 - T2
Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.583 - Ecology (Q2) - Plant Science (Q2) - Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (Q2)
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/647038/EU/Biological feedbacks and ecosystem resilience under global change: a new perspective on dryland desertification/BIODESERT
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FJCI-2015-26782
Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)
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Aims: Understanding the systemic mechanisms of plant–plant network assembly and their consequences for diversity patterns.
Methods: We review recent methods and results of plant–plant networks.
Results: We synthetize how plant–plant networks can help us to: (a) assess how competition and facilitation may balance each other through the network; (b) analyse the role of plantplant interactions beyond pairwise competition in structuring plant communities, and (c) forecast the ecological implications of complex species dependencies. We discuss pros and cons, assumptions and limitations of different approaches used for inferring plant–plant networks.
Conclusions: We propose novel opportunities for advancing plant ecology by using ecological networks that encompass different ecological levels and spatio-temporal scales, and incorporate more biological information. Embracing networks of interactions among plants can shed new light on mechanisms driving evolution and ecosystem functioning, helping us to mitigate diversity loss.
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2019.1626509
Año: 2019
Publicado en: PLANT ECOLOGY & DIVERSITY 12, 2 (2019), 87-102
ISSN: 1755-0874
Factor impacto JCR: 1.196 (2019)
Categ. JCR: PLANT SCIENCES rank: 146 / 234 = 0.624 (2019) - Q3 - T2
Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.583 - Ecology (Q2) - Plant Science (Q2) - Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (Q2)
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/647038/EU/Biological feedbacks and ecosystem resilience under global change: a new perspective on dryland desertification/BIODESERT
Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FJCI-2015-26782
Tipo y forma: Article (PostPrint)
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. Exportado de SIDERAL (2026-02-23-14:54:15)
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