Generalist plants are more competitive and more functionally similar to each other than specialist plants: insights from network analyses

Ecological specialization is defined by the variety of environments species occupy. Identifying the mechanisms that influence specialization is critical to understand patterns of species coexistence and biodiversity. However, the functional attributes that result in specialization are still unknown. Similarly, there is contrasting evidence between the degree of specialization and the local abundance of species. We investigated whether specialist and generalist plant species (a) are associated with distinct functional profiles, using core plant functional traits and strategies, (b) show similar functional variation and (c) perform at the local scale.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Journal of Biogeography

• Publication date

  2020-04-25

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/jbi.13848
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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