Data from: Mapping the imprint of biotic interactions on β-diversity
| Main Authors: | Ohlmann, Marc, Mazel, Florent, Chalmandrier, Loïc, Bec, Stéphane, Coissac, Eric, Gielly, Ludovic, Pansu, Johan, Schilling, Vincent, Taberlet, Pierre, Zinger, Lucie, Chave, Jerome, Thuiller, Wilfried |
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| Format: | info dataset Journal |
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, 2019
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https://zenodo.org/record/4989210 |
Daftar Isi:
- Investigating how trophic interactions influence the β-diversity of meta-communities is of paramount importance to understanding the processes shaping biodiversity distribution. Here, we apply a statistical method for inferring the strength of spatial dependencies between pairs of species groups. Using simulated community data generated from a multi-trophic model, we showed that this method can approximate biotic interactions in multi-trophic communities based on β-diversity patterns across groups. When applied to soil multi-trophic communities along an elevational gradient in the French Alps, we found that fungi make a major contribution to the structuring of β-diversity across trophic groups. We also demonstrated that there were strong spatial dependencies between groups known to interact specifically (e.g. plant-symbiotic fungi, bacteria-nematodes) and that the influence of environment was less important than previously reported in the literature. Our method paves the way for a better understanding and mapping of multi-trophic communities through space and time.
- data_ohlmann_etal_2018