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SUBMITTER: Ruffley M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6912896 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ruffley Megan M Peterson Katie K Week Bob B Tank David C DC Harmon Luke J LJ
Ecology and evolution 20191121 23
Ecologists often use dispersion metrics and statistical hypothesis testing to infer processes of community formation such as environmental filtering, competitive exclusion, and neutral species assembly. These metrics have limited power in inferring assembly models because they rely on often-violated assumptions. Here, we adapt a model of phenotypic similarity and repulsion to simulate the process of community assembly via environmental filtering and competitive exclusion, all while parameterizin ...[more]