strong neutral spatial effects shape tree species distributions across life stages at multiple scales强烈的中性空间形状影响树种分布在多尺度跨越生命阶段.pdfVIP

Strong Neutral Spatial Effects Shape Tree Species Distributions across Life Stages at Multiple Scales 1,2 3,4 1 1 1 2 2 Yue-Hua Hu , Guo-Yu Lan , Li-Qing Sha , Min Cao *, Yong Tang , Yi-De Li , Da-Ping Xu 1 Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan, China, 2 Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 3 Danzhou Key Field Station of Observation and Research for Tropical Agricultural Resources and Environments, Ministry of Agriculture, Danzhou, Hainan, China, 4 Rubber Research Institute, the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Danzhou, Hainan, China Abstract Traditionally, ecologists use lattice (regional summary) count data to simulate tree species distributions to explore species coexistence. However, no previous study has explicitly compared the difference between using lattice count and basal area data and analyzed species distributions at both individual species and community levels while simultaneously considering the combined scenarios of life stage and scale. In this study, we hypothesized that basal area data are more closely related to environmental variables than are count data because of strong environmental filtering effects. We also address the contribution of niche and the neutral (i.e., solely dependent on distance) factors to species distributions. Specifically, we separately modeled count data and basal area data while considering life stage and scale effects at the two levels with simultaneous autoregressive models and variation partitioning. A principal coordinates of neighbor matrix (PCNM) was used to model ne