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Ground-Layer Invertebrate Communities are More Strongly Influenced by Tree Canopy than by Understory Plant Composition

Lind, Dana; Menard, Lawton; Shaikh, Samir; Suzali, Sorfina; Schneider, Tasha; Arumugam, Dihyanni; Hammick, Madisyn; Jehn, Julia; Jorgensen, Keith; Lemke, Kelly; Maksymkiw, Sophie; Marcus, Kathleen; Mutka, Amber; O'Keefe, Kerry; Plack, Naomi; Selvarajan, Raja; Weiher, Evan R. (2019-05)

Ground-layer invertebrates (GLI) are an integral part of forest communities because of their ability to break down leaf litter. As key players in the process of nutrient cycling, they are essential to ecosystem functioning. ...

Coexisting Sedges in Northern Wisconsin Forests are Functionally Similar and May be Distantly Related in Evolutionary History

O'Keefe, Kerry; Jorgensen, Keith; Lemke, Kelly; Shaikh, Samir; Arumugam, Dihyanni; Hammick, Madisyn; Jehn, Julia; Lind, Dana; Maksymkiw, Sophie; Marcus, Kathleen; Menard, Lawton; Mutka, Amber; Plack, Naomi; Schneider, Tasha; Selvarajan, Raja; Suzali, Sorfina; Weiher, Evan R. (2019-05)

Organisms coexist either by having similar functional traits that match habitat requirements or by having non-similar traits to reduce competition. A classic study showed that coexisting oak trees in Florida tend to be ...

Spider Functional Biodiversity is Positively Correlated with Plant Functional Biodiversity

Olson, Ceana; Berquist, Maria; Theodore, Keith; Maksymkiw, Sophie; Teh, Zhi Yee; Quinn, Morgan; Jehn, Julia; Brown, Jake; Babb, Emily; Weiher, Evan R. (2020-04)

Community assembly is the result of ecological selection processes, dispersal processes, and random drift processes. Selection processes can cause coexisting species to be more similar or more different in traits, depending ...

Plant Functional Biodiversity is Influenced by Soil Moisture and Spatial Scaling

Maksymkiw, Sophie; Teh, Zhi Yee; Jehn, Julia; Quinn, Morgan; Theodore, Keith; Olson, Ceana; Berquist, Maria; Brown, Jake; Babb, Emily; Weiher, Evan R. (2020-04)