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Soil conditions and phylogenetic relatedness influence total community trait space during early plant succession
Authors:Werner Ulrich  Marcin Piwczy&#x  ski  Markus K Zaplata  Susanne Winter  Wolfgang Schaaf  Anton Fischer
Abstract:Aims The total space of traits covered by the members of plant communities is an important parameter of ecosystem functioning and complexity. We trace the variability of trait space during early plant succession and ask how trait space co-varies with phylogenetic community structure and soil conditions. Particularly, we are interested in the small-scale variability in trait space and the influence of biotic and abiotic filters.Methods We use data on species richness and soil conditions from the first 7 years of initial succession of an artificial catchment in north-eastern Germany. Total functional attribute diversity serves as a proxy to total trait space.Important findings Total trait space steadily increased during succession. We observed high small-scale variability in total trait space that was positively correlated with species richness and phylogenetic segregation and negatively correlated with total plant cover. Trait space increased with soil carbonate content, while pH and the fraction of sandy material behaved indifferently. Our results indicate that during early succession, habitat filtering processes gain importance leading to a lesser increase in trait space than expected from the increase in species richness alone.
Keywords:primary succession  trait space  phylogenetic signal  habitat filtering  species co-occurrence  null model  
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