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Spatial organization of multiple plant species in arid ecosystems: linking patterns and processes
Amit CHAKRABORTY, GuiQuan SUN, B. Larry LI
1 Ecological Complexity and Modeling Laboratory, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0124, USA; 2 Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0334, USA; 3 XIEG-UCR International Center for Arid Land Ecology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA; 4 Department of Mathematics, North University of China, Taiyuan, Shanxi 6030051, China; 5 School of Mechatronic Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, Shanxi 6030051, China
Spatial organization of multiple plant species in arid ecosystems: linking patterns and processes
Amit CHAKRABORTY, GuiQuan SUN, B. Larry LI
1 Ecological Complexity and Modeling Laboratory, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0124, USA; 2 Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0334, USA; 3 XIEG-UCR International Center for Arid Land Ecology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA; 4 Department of Mathematics, North University of China, Taiyuan, Shanxi 6030051, China; 5 School of Mechatronic Engineering, North University of China, Taiyuan, Shanxi 6030051, China
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摘要 Spatial organization of multiple plant species that appears as a non-random distribution of vegetative patches is one of the mostly observed spatial patterns in arid ecosystems. Yet understanding of ecological processes allowing this spatial pattern to emerge through interspecific interactions is still lacking. With a proposed conceptual model involving interspecific trade-offs between species competitive ability and colonization ability, we have argued that within patch abundance dynamics regulated by the mechanisms of competition are strongly influenced by the between patches colonization dynamics that are maintained via this trade-offs and it holds a positive, intraspecific occupancy-abundance relationship, in which increased patch occupancy increases species density within inhabiting patches. In a constant environment, while local abundance dynamics approach toward a stable equilibrium point, a fixed spatial arrangement of species can be retained through this coupled dynamics. However, in fluctuating environments where existence of such stable equilibriums is highly uncertain, it may involve continuous transitions from one community state to another as species re-organized themselves over space through the rapid changes in local species abundances. While some of the inhabiting patches are destroyed exogenously or endogenously, or species responses to increasing environmental fluctuations vary increasingly with time, discontinuous transitions into an abrupt, irreversible state of the community dynamics may occur, as with this effect the inherent positive relationship between occupancy and abundance of species is no longer maintained.
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Amit CHAKRABORTY
GuiQuan SUN
B. Larry LI
Abstract: Spatial organization of multiple plant species that appears as a non-random distribution of vegetative patches is one of the mostly observed spatial patterns in arid ecosystems. Yet understanding of ecological processes allowing this spatial pattern to emerge through interspecific interactions is still lacking. With a proposed conceptual model involving interspecific trade-offs between species competitive ability and colonization ability, we have argued that within patch abundance dynamics regulated by the mechanisms of competition are strongly influenced by the between patches colonization dynamics that are maintained via this trade-offs and it holds a positive, intraspecific occupancy-abundance relationship, in which increased patch occupancy increases species density within inhabiting patches. In a constant environment, while local abundance dynamics approach toward a stable equilibrium point, a fixed spatial arrangement of species can be retained through this coupled dynamics. However, in fluctuating environments where existence of such stable equilibriums is highly uncertain, it may involve continuous transitions from one community state to another as species re-organized themselves over space through the rapid changes in local species abundances. While some of the inhabiting patches are destroyed exogenously or endogenously, or species responses to increasing environmental fluctuations vary increasingly with time, discontinuous transitions into an abrupt, irreversible state of the community dynamics may occur, as with this effect the inherent positive relationship between occupancy and abundance of species is no longer maintained.
收稿日期:  2009-12-30      修回日期:  2010-01-12           出版日期:  2010-03-07      发布日期:  2010-03-07      期的出版日期:  2010-03-07
基金资助: U.S. National Science Foundation’s Biocomplexity Program (DEB-0421530); Long-Term Ecological Research Program (Sevilleta LTER, DEB-0217774 and 0620482); University of California Agricultural Experiment Station
通讯作者:  B. Larry LI    E-mail:  bai-lian.li@ucr.edu
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Amit CHAKRABORTY, GuiQuan SUN, B. Larry LI. Spatial organization of multiple plant species in arid ecosystems: linking patterns and processes[J]. 干旱区科学, 10.3724/SP.J.1227.2010.00009.
Amit CHAKRABORTY, GuiQuan SUN, B. Larry LI. Spatial organization of multiple plant species in arid ecosystems: linking patterns and processes. Journal of Arid Land, 2010, 2(1): 9-13.
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