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      Evidence for limiting similarity in a sand dune community

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            Community assembly and invasion: an experimental test of neutral versus niche processes.

            A species-addition experiment showed that prairie grasslands have a structured, nonneutral assembly process in which resident species inhibit, via resource consumption, the establishment and growth of species with similar resource use patterns and in which the success of invaders decreases as diversity increases. In our experiment, species in each of four functional guilds were introduced, as seed, into 147 prairie-grassland plots that previously had been established and maintained to have different compositions and diversities. Established species most strongly inhibited introduced species from their own functional guild. Introduced species attained lower abundances when functionally similar species were abundant and when established species left lower levels of resources unconsumed, which occurred at higher [corrected] species richness. Residents of the C4 grass functional guild, the dominant guild in nearby native grasslands, reduced the major limiting resource, soil nitrate, to the lowest levels in midsummer and exhibited the greatest inhibitory effect on introduced species. This simple mechanism of greater competitive inhibition of invaders that are similar to established abundant species could, in theory, explain many of the patterns observed in plant communities.
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              Sizes and Shapes of Liane Leaves

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                Journal
                Journal of Ecology
                J Ecology
                Wiley-Blackwell
                0022-0477
                1365-2745
                August 2004
                August 2004
                : 92
                : 4
                : 557-567
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                10.1111/j.0022-0477.2004.00898.x
                d6885eca-104f-4051-8121-a31477e8c795
                © 2004

                http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1

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