Functional assessment of animal interactions with shrub facilitation complexes
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community ecology is dead @cjlortie
Transcript of Functional assessment of animal interactions with shrub facilitation complexes
community ecology is dead
@cjlortie
long live network ecology
millions of plants are not necessarily a network
individuals counted are not necessarily interactions
examine one thing at a time
maybe two
ignore
ignore
ignore
ignore
habitat
resource
difficult to be an expert
pairwise contrasts
maybe two & sometimes iterative sets of two
two is not double the work
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two
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positive interactions globally
shrub-animal-plant & shrub-plant-animal
n = 77
shrub interactions with animals
direct 54% indirect 46%
nested complexes of interactions
bidirectional plant-animal interactions
contrasted interaction strengths
management of high-stress ecosystemsneeds comprehensive estimates of community dynamics
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Westphal, Bean, Butterfield, Michalet
shrub-animal-plant & shrub-plant-animal
Noble, Liczner, Filazzola
BLM & TNC
