Key concepts and a world‐wide look at plant recruitment networks

作者：Julio M. Alcántara, Miguel Verdú, José Luis Hernando Garrido, Alicia Montesinos‐Navarro, Marcelo A. Aizen, Mohamed Alifriqui, David Allen, Ali A. Al‐Namazi, Cristina Armas, Jesús M. Bastida, Tono Bellido, Gustavo B. Paterno, Herbert Briceño, Ricardo A. C. de Oliveira, Josefina G. Campoy, Ghassen Chaieb, Chengjin Chu, Elena Constantinou, Léo Delalandre, Milén Duarte, Michel Faife‐Cabrera, Fatih Fazlioglu, Edwino S. Fernando, Joel Flores, Hilda Flores‐Olvera, Ecaterina Fodor, Gislene Ganade, Marı́a B. Garcı́a, P. García‐Fayos, Sabrina S. Gavini, Marta Goberna, Lorena Gómez‐Aparicio, Enrique González‐Pendás, Ana González‐Robles, Kahraman İpekdal, Zaal Kikvidze, Alicia Ledo, Sandra Lendínez, Hanlun Liu, Francisco Lloret, Ramiro Pablo López, Álvaro López‐García, Christopher J. Lortie, Gianalberto Losapio, James A. Lutz, Frantíšek Máliš, Antonio J. Manzaneda, Vinícius Marcilio‐Silva, Richard Michalet, Rafael Molina‐Venegas, José A. Navarro‐Cano, Vojtêch Novotný, Jens M. Olesen, Juan Pablo Ortíz-Brunel, Mariona Pajares‐Murgó, Antonio J. Perea, Vidal Pérez‐Hernández, María Ángeles Pérez‐Navarro, Nuria Pistón, Iván Prieto, Jorge Prieto‐Rubio, Francisco I. Pugnaire, Nelson Ramírez, Rubén Retuerto, Pedro J. Rey, Daniel A. Rodriguez‐Ginart, Ricardo Sánchez‐Martín, Çağatay Tavşanoğlu, Giorgi Tedoradze, Amanda Tercero‐Araque, Katja Tielbörger, Blaise Touzard, İrem Tüfekcioğlu, Sevda Türkiş, Francisco M. Usero, Nurbahar Usta‐Baykal, Alfonso Valiente‐Banuet, Alexa Vargas‐Colin, Ioannis Ν. Vogiatzakis, Regino Zamora · 发表于：Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1111/brv.13177 · 被引用次数：10 · 研究领域：Plant and animal studies、Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies、Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Plant-plant interactions are major determinants of the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems. There is a long tradition in the study of these interactions, their mechanisms and their consequences using experimental, observational and theoretical approaches. Empirical studies overwhelmingly focus at the level of species pairs or small sets of species. Although empirical data on these interactions at the community level are scarce, such studies have gained pace in the last decade. Studying plant-plant interactions at the community level requires knowledge of which species interact with which others, so an ecological networks approach must be incorporated into the basic toolbox of plant community ecology. The concept of recruitment networks (RNs) provides an integrative framework and new insights for many topics in the field of plant community ecology. RNs synthesise the set of canopy-recruit interactions in a local plant assemblage. Canopy-recruit interactions describe which ("canopy") species allow the recruitment of other species in their vicinity and how. Here we critically review basic concepts of ecological network theory as they apply to RNs. We use RecruitNet, a recently published worldwide data set of canopy-recruit interactions, to describe RN patterns emerging at the interaction, species, and community levels, and relate them to different abiotic gradients. Our results show that RNs can be sampled with high accuracy. The studies included in RecruitNet show a very high me...