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SUBMITTER: Tredennick AT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5386145 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tredennick Andrew T AT de Mazancourt Claire C Loreau Michel M Adler Peter B PB
Ecology 20170401 4
Temporal asynchrony among species helps diversity to stabilize ecosystem functioning, but identifying the mechanisms that determine synchrony remains a challenge. Here, we refine and test theory showing that synchrony depends on three factors: species responses to environmental variation, interspecific interactions, and demographic stochasticity. We then conduct simulation experiments with empirical population models to quantify the relative influence of these factors on the synchrony of dominan ...[more]