Restoration ecology through the lens of coexistence theory

Hallett, Lauren M.; Aoyama, Lina; Barabás, György; Gilbert, Benjamin; Larios, Loralee; Shackelford, Nancy; Werner, Chhaya M.; Godoy, Óscar; Ladouceur, Emma; Lucero, Jacob E.; Weiss‐Lehman, Christopher; Chase, Jonathan M.; Chu, Chengjin; Mayfield, Margaret M.; Faist, Akasha M.; Shoemaker, Lauren G.

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2023.06.004

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“…Understanding general laws about species diversity and stability in nonequilibrium communities would contribute to the understanding of the long-term effects of anthropogenic disturbances (Kondoh et al . 2020; Hallett et al . 2023; Ushio et al .…”

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Multifaceted effects of variable biotic interactions on population stability in complex interaction webs

Hashimoto

Hayasaka

Eguchi

et al. 2021

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Recent studies have uncovered that biotic interaction strength varies over time in real ecosystems intrinsically and/or responding to anthropogenic disturbances. Little is known, however, about whether such interaction variability strengthens or weakens community resistance against disturbances. Here, we examine how the change in interaction strength after pesticide application mediates disturbance impacts on a freshwater community using outdoor mesocosms. We show that the change in interaction strength buffered the disturbance impact but amplified it once the disturbance severity exceeded a certain threshold. Importantly, we also show that interactions fluctuating more temporally under no disturbances were more changeable in response to pesticide applications. Our findings suggest that a severe disturbance may have a surprise impact on a biological community amplified by their own interaction variability, but the possibility still remains that we can predict the consequences of the disturbance by measuring the interaction variability before the disturbance occurs.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multifaceted effects of variable biotic interactions on population stability in complex interaction webs

Hashimoto

Hayasaka

Eguchi

et al. 2021

Preprint

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“…Attempts to rely on natural ecological processes to restore biodiversity rely, by definition, on naturally occurring community assembly processes (Palmer et al 1997, Hilderbrand et al 2005). It is therefore of fundamental importance that we gain a deeper understanding of whether those assembly processes in modified habitats are the same or different to those observed in primary habitats (Hallet et al 2023).…”

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“…It is often suggested that community assembly processes exhibit hysteresis (Beisner et al 2003), implying that restoring an ecological community in a modified habitat could rely on different assembly processes than those that exist in primary habitats (Andersen et al 2009, Suding and Hobbs 2009). Therefore, our understanding of primary community assembly may give information that at best is irrelevant, or at worst directly misleading, when planning the restoration of modified communities (Hallett et al 2023).…”

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Resilience of tropical invertebrate community assembly processes to a gradient of land use intensity

Granville,

Barclay,

Boyle

et al. 2023

Oikos

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Understanding how community assembly processes drive biodiversity patterns is a central goal of community ecology. While it is generally accepted that ecological communities are assembled by both stochastic and deterministic processes, quantifying their relative importance remains challenging. Few studies have investigated how the relative importance of stochastic and deterministic community assembly processes vary among taxa and along gradients of habitat degradation. Using data on 1645 arthropod species across seven taxonomic groups in Malaysian Borneo, we quantified the importance of ecological stochasticity and of a suite of community assembly processes across a gradient of logging intensity. The relationship between logging and community assembly varied depending on the specific combination of taxa and stochasticity metric used, but, in general, the processes that govern invertebrate community assembly were remarkably robust to changes in land use intensity.

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“…I follow Lavorel and Chesson (1995) and Hallett et al (2023) in using the term "low-density growth rate"). For the Bever et al (1997) model, the LDGR for each species is given by the following:…”

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Quantifying soil microbial effects on plant species coexistence: A conceptual synthesis

Kandlikar

2024

American J of Botany

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Soil microorganisms play a critical role in shaping the biodiversity dynamics of plant communities. These microbial effects can arise through direct mediation of plant fitness by pathogens and mutualists, and over the past two decades, numerous studies have shined a spotlight on the role of dynamic feedbacks between plants and soil microorganisms as key determinants of plant species coexistence. Such feedbacks occur when plants modify the composition of the soil community, which in turn affects plant performance. Stimulated by a theoretical model developed in the 1990s, a bulk of the empirical evidence for microbial controls over plant coexistence comes from experiments that quantify plant growth in soil communities that were previously conditioned by conspecific or heterospecific plants. These studies have revealed that soil microbes can generate strong negative to positive frequency‐dependent dynamics among plants. Even as soil microbes have become recognized as a key player in determining plant coexistence outcomes, the past few years have seen a renewed interest in expanding the conceptual foundations of this field. New results include re‐interpretations of key metrics from classic two‐species models, extensions of plant–soil feedback theory to multispecies communities, and frameworks to integrate plant–soil feedbacks with processes like intra‐ and interspecific competition. Here, I review the implications of theoretical developments for interpreting existing empirical results and highlight proposed analyses and designs for future experiments that can enable a more complete understanding of microbial regulation of plant community dynamics.

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Restoration ecology through the lens of coexistence theory

Cited by 6 publications

References 94 publications

Multifaceted effects of variable biotic interactions on population stability in complex interaction webs

Multifaceted effects of variable biotic interactions on population stability in complex interaction webs

Resilience of tropical invertebrate community assembly processes to a gradient of land use intensity

Quantifying soil microbial effects on plant species coexistence: A conceptual synthesis

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