Competitive assembly of South Pacific invasive ant communities

Title
Competitive assembly of South Pacific invasive ant communities
Publication Date
2009
Author(s)
Lester, Philip J
Abbott, Kirsten
Sarty, Megan
Burns, K C
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
BioMed Central Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1186/1472-6785-9-3
UNE publication id
une:15890
Abstract
The relative importance of chance and determinism in structuring ecological communities has been debated for nearly a century. Evidence for determinism or assembly rules is often evaluated with null models that randomize the occurrence of species in particular locales. However, analyses of the presence or absence of species ignores the potential influence of species abundances, which have long been considered of major importance on community structure. Here, we test for community assembly rules in ant communities on small islands of the Tokelau archipelago using both presence-absence and abundance data. We conducted three sets of analyses on two spatial scales using three years of sampling data from 39 plots on 11 islands.
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Citation
BMC Ecology, 9(3), p. 1-10
ISSN
1472-6785
Start page
1
End page
10

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