TY  - JOUR
A1  - Guill, Christian
A1  - Hülsemann, Janne
A1  - Klauschies, Toni
T1  - Self-organised pattern formation increases local diversity in metacommunities
JF  - Ecology letters
N2  - Self-organised formation of spatial patterns is known from a variety of different ecosystems, yet little is known about how these patterns affect the diversity of communities. Here, we use a food chain model in which autotroph diversity is described by a continuous distribution of a trait that affects both growth and defence against heterotrophs. On isolated patches, diversity is always lost over time due to stabilising selection, and the local communities settle on one of two alternative stable community states that are characterised by a dominance of either defended or undefended species. In a metacommunity context, dispersal can destabilise these states and complex spatio-temporal patterns in the species' abundances emerge. The resulting biomass-trait feedback increases local diversity by an order of magnitude compared to scenarios without self-organised pattern formation, thereby maintaining the ability of communities to adapt to potential future changes in biotic or abiotic environmental conditions.
KW  - biomass-trait feedback
KW  - fitness gradient
KW  - food chain
KW  - functional
KW  - diversity
KW  - metacommunity
KW  - self-organisation
KW  - source-sink dynamics
KW  - spatio-temporal pattern
KW  - trait-based aggregate model
KW  - Turing instability
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13880
SN  - 1461-023X
SN  - 1461-0248
VL  - 24
IS  - 12
SP  - 2624
EP  - 2634
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stillfried, Milena
A1  - Fickel, Jörns
A1  - Börner, Konstantin
A1  - Wittstatt, Ulrich
A1  - Heddergott, Mike
A1  - Ortmann, Sylvia
A1  - Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie
A1  - Frantz, Alain C.
T1  - Do cities represent sources, sinks or isolated islands for urban wild boar population structure?
JF  - Journal of applied ecology : an official journal of the British Ecological Society
KW  - baps
KW  - Berlin
KW  - diyabc
KW  - human-wildlife conflict
KW  - hunting
KW  - microsatellites
KW  - movement barrier
KW  - source-sink dynamics
KW  - structure
KW  - urban ecology
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12756
SN  - 0021-8901
SN  - 1365-2664
VL  - 54
IS  - 1
SP  - 272
EP  - 281
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -