Do ecological specialization and functional traits explain the abundance–frequency relationship? Arable weeds as a case study
Aim The abundance–frequency relationship (AFR) is among the most‐investigated patterns in biogeography, yet the relative contributions of niche‐based processes related to ecological strategies, and of neutral processes related to spatial colonization–extinction dynamics, remains uncertain. Here, we...
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The abundance–frequency relationship (AFR) is among the most‐investigated patterns in biogeography, yet the relative contributions of niche‐based processes related to ecological strategies, and of neutral processes related to spatial colonization–extinction dynamics, remains uncertain. Here, we tested the influences of ecological specialization and functional traits on local abundance and regional frequency, to determine the contribution of niche‐based processes.
Location
France and the UK.
Taxon
Vascular plants.
Methods
We used two arable weed surveys covering 1,544 fields in Western Europe (France, UK), along with functional traits related to resource acquisition, resource requirements, flowering phenology and dispersal. We quantified specialization both to arable habitat and to individual crop types, and performed phylogenetic path analyses to test competing models accounting for direct and indirect relationships between traits, specialization, abundance and frequency. We performed the analyses for all species in each country, as well as for a subset of the most abundant species.
Results
Local abundance of weeds increased with their regional frequency, but the relationship became negative or null when considering only the most abundant weeds. Specialization to arable habitat and to individual crop type either had a similar or opposite effect on regional frequency and local abundance explaining these positive and negative relationships, respectively. Regional frequency was not directly explained by any trait but indirectly by resource requirement traits conferring specialization to the arable habitat. Conversely, high local abundance was directly related to low seed mass, high SLA, early and short flowering.
Main conclusions
Direct/indirect effects of functional traits on local abundance/regional frequency, respectively, supports a significant role of niche‐based processes in AFR. Neutral spillover dynamics could further explain a direct linkage of abundance and frequency. Similar causal paths and consistent influences of traits on specialization and abundance in the two studied regions suggest genericity of these findings. |
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The abundance–frequency relationship (AFR) is among the most‐investigated patterns in biogeography, yet the relative contributions of niche‐based processes related to ecological strategies, and of neutral processes related to spatial colonization–extinction dynamics, remains uncertain. Here, we tested the influences of ecological specialization and functional traits on local abundance and regional frequency, to determine the contribution of niche‐based processes.
Location
France and the UK.
Taxon
Vascular plants.
Methods
We used two arable weed surveys covering 1,544 fields in Western Europe (France, UK), along with functional traits related to resource acquisition, resource requirements, flowering phenology and dispersal. We quantified specialization both to arable habitat and to individual crop types, and performed phylogenetic path analyses to test competing models accounting for direct and indirect relationships between traits, specialization, abundance and frequency. We performed the analyses for all species in each country, as well as for a subset of the most abundant species.
Results
Local abundance of weeds increased with their regional frequency, but the relationship became negative or null when considering only the most abundant weeds. Specialization to arable habitat and to individual crop type either had a similar or opposite effect on regional frequency and local abundance explaining these positive and negative relationships, respectively. Regional frequency was not directly explained by any trait but indirectly by resource requirement traits conferring specialization to the arable habitat. Conversely, high local abundance was directly related to low seed mass, high SLA, early and short flowering.
Main conclusions
Direct/indirect effects of functional traits on local abundance/regional frequency, respectively, supports a significant role of niche‐based processes in AFR. Neutral spillover dynamics could further explain a direct linkage of abundance and frequency. Similar causal paths and consistent influences of traits on specialization and abundance in the two studied regions suggest genericity of these findings.</description><identifier>ISSN: 0305-0270</identifier><identifier>EISSN: 1365-2699</identifier><identifier>DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13980</identifier><language>eng</language><publisher>Oxford: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc</publisher><subject>Abundance ; Arable land ; Biogeography ; Colonization ; Dispersal ; Ecological effects ; Environmental Sciences ; Flowering ; generalist–specialist ; Habitats ; neutral processes ; Niches ; niche‐breadth ; occupancy ; path analysis ; Phylogeny ; Plants ; Specialization ; Species extinction ; weed biogeography ; Weeds</subject><ispartof>Journal of biogeography, 2021-01, Vol.48 (1), p.37-50</ispartof><rights>2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd</rights><rights>Copyright © 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd</rights><rights>Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</rights><lds50>peer_reviewed</lds50><woscitedreferencessubscribed>false</woscitedreferencessubscribed><citedby>FETCH-LOGICAL-c3310-14ea2e530eb060827291ee7912de1132bf22a6f886cee7f8f34d8a8251b7a3443</citedby><cites>FETCH-LOGICAL-c3310-14ea2e530eb060827291ee7912de1132bf22a6f886cee7f8f34d8a8251b7a3443</cites><orcidid>0000-0002-2471-9226 ; 0000-0002-7145-6713 ; 0000-0001-8776-4705 ; 0000-0002-3653-195X ; 0000-0002-2885-2518 ; 0000-0003-1094-8914 ; 0000-0002-9820-9667</orcidid></display><links><openurl>$$Topenurl_article</openurl><openurlfulltext>$$Topenurlfull_article</openurlfulltext><thumbnail>$$Tsyndetics_thumb_exl</thumbnail><linktopdf>$$Uhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111%2Fjbi.13980$$EPDF$$P50$$Gwiley$$H</linktopdf><linktohtml>$$Uhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111%2Fjbi.13980$$EHTML$$P50$$Gwiley$$H</linktohtml><link.rule.ids>230,314,776,780,881,1411,27901,27902,45550,45551</link.rule.ids><backlink>$$Uhttps://hal.science/hal-02971339$$DView record in HAL$$Hfree_for_read</backlink></links><search><creatorcontrib>Fried, Guillaume</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Armengot, Laura</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Storkey, Jonathan</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Bourgeois, Bérenger</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Gaba, Sabrina</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Violle, Cyrille</creatorcontrib><creatorcontrib>Munoz, François</creatorcontrib><title>Do ecological specialization and functional traits explain the abundance–frequency relationship? Arable weeds as a case study</title><title>Journal of biogeography</title><description>Aim
The abundance–frequency relationship (AFR) is among the most‐investigated patterns in biogeography, yet the relative contributions of niche‐based processes related to ecological strategies, and of neutral processes related to spatial colonization–extinction dynamics, remains uncertain. Here, we tested the influences of ecological specialization and functional traits on local abundance and regional frequency, to determine the contribution of niche‐based processes.
Location
France and the UK.
Taxon
Vascular plants.
Methods
We used two arable weed surveys covering 1,544 fields in Western Europe (France, UK), along with functional traits related to resource acquisition, resource requirements, flowering phenology and dispersal. We quantified specialization both to arable habitat and to individual crop types, and performed phylogenetic path analyses to test competing models accounting for direct and indirect relationships between traits, specialization, abundance and frequency. We performed the analyses for all species in each country, as well as for a subset of the most abundant species.
Results
Local abundance of weeds increased with their regional frequency, but the relationship became negative or null when considering only the most abundant weeds. Specialization to arable habitat and to individual crop type either had a similar or opposite effect on regional frequency and local abundance explaining these positive and negative relationships, respectively. Regional frequency was not directly explained by any trait but indirectly by resource requirement traits conferring specialization to the arable habitat. Conversely, high local abundance was directly related to low seed mass, high SLA, early and short flowering.
Main conclusions
Direct/indirect effects of functional traits on local abundance/regional frequency, respectively, supports a significant role of niche‐based processes in AFR. Neutral spillover dynamics could further explain a direct linkage of abundance and frequency. 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The abundance–frequency relationship (AFR) is among the most‐investigated patterns in biogeography, yet the relative contributions of niche‐based processes related to ecological strategies, and of neutral processes related to spatial colonization–extinction dynamics, remains uncertain. Here, we tested the influences of ecological specialization and functional traits on local abundance and regional frequency, to determine the contribution of niche‐based processes.
Location
France and the UK.
Taxon
Vascular plants.
Methods
We used two arable weed surveys covering 1,544 fields in Western Europe (France, UK), along with functional traits related to resource acquisition, resource requirements, flowering phenology and dispersal. We quantified specialization both to arable habitat and to individual crop types, and performed phylogenetic path analyses to test competing models accounting for direct and indirect relationships between traits, specialization, abundance and frequency. We performed the analyses for all species in each country, as well as for a subset of the most abundant species.
Results
Local abundance of weeds increased with their regional frequency, but the relationship became negative or null when considering only the most abundant weeds. Specialization to arable habitat and to individual crop type either had a similar or opposite effect on regional frequency and local abundance explaining these positive and negative relationships, respectively. Regional frequency was not directly explained by any trait but indirectly by resource requirement traits conferring specialization to the arable habitat. Conversely, high local abundance was directly related to low seed mass, high SLA, early and short flowering.
Main conclusions
Direct/indirect effects of functional traits on local abundance/regional frequency, respectively, supports a significant role of niche‐based processes in AFR. Neutral spillover dynamics could further explain a direct linkage of abundance and frequency. Similar causal paths and consistent influences of traits on specialization and abundance in the two studied regions suggest genericity of these findings.</abstract><cop>Oxford</cop><pub>Wiley Subscription Services, Inc</pub><doi>10.1111/jbi.13980</doi><tpages>14</tpages><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2471-9226</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7145-6713</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8776-4705</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3653-195X</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2885-2518</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1094-8914</orcidid><orcidid>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9820-9667</orcidid></addata></record> |
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