Key concepts and a world-wide look at plant recruitment networks
Por:
Alcántara J.M., Verdú M., Garrido J.L., Montesinos-Navarro A., Aizen M.A., Alifriqui M., Allen D., Al-Namazi A.A., Armas C., Bastida J.M., Bellido T., Paterno G.B., Briceño H., Camargo de Oliveira R.A., Campoy J.G., Chaieb G., Chu C., Constantinou E., Delalandre L., Duarte M., Faife-Cabrera M., Fazlioglu F., Fernando E.S., Flores J., Flores-Olvera H., Fodor E., Ganade G., Garcia M.B., García-Fayos P., Gavini S.S., Goberna M., Gómez-Aparicio L., González-Pendás E., González-Robles A., Ipekdal K., Kikvidze Z., Ledo A., Lendínez S., Liu H., Lloret F., López R.P., López-García Á., Lortie C.J., Losapio G., Lutz J.A., Máliš F., Manzaneda A.J., Marcilio-Silva V., Michalet R., Molina-Venegas R., Navarro-Cano J.A., Novotny V., Olesen J.M., Ortiz-Brunel J.P., Pajares-Murgó M., Perea A.J., Pérez-Hernández V., Pérez-Navarro M.Á., Pistón N., Prieto I., Prieto-Rubio J., Pugnaire F.I., Ramírez N., Retuerto R., Rey P.J., Rodriguez-Ginart D.A., Sánchez-Martín R., Tavsanoglu Ç., Tedoradze G., Tercero-Araque A., Tielbörger K., Touzard B., Tüfekcioglu I., Turkis S., Usero F.M., Usta-Baykal N., Valiente-Banuet A., Vargas-Colin A., Vogiatzakis I., Zamora R.
Publicada:
1 ene 2025
Resumen:
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 mean network completeness (95%), indicating that undetected canopy–recruit pairs must be few and occur very infrequently. Across 351,064 canopy–recruit pairs analysed, the effect of the interaction on recruitment was neutral in an average of 69% of the interactions per community, but the remaining interactions were positive (i.e. facilitative) five times more often than negative (i.e. competitive), and positive interactions had twice the strength of negative ones. Moreover, the frequency and strength of facilitation increases along a climatic aridity gradient worldwide, so the demography of plant communities is increasingly strongly dependent on facilitation as aridity increases. At network level, species can be ascribed to four functional types depending on their position in the network: core, satellite, strict transients and disturbance-dependent transients. This functional structure can allow a rough estimation of which species are more likely to persist. In RecruitNet communities, this functional structure most often departs from random null model expectation and could allow on average the persistence of 77% of the species in a local community. The functional structure of RNs also varies along the aridity gradient, but differently in shrubland than in forest communities. This variation suggests an increase in the probability of species persistence with aridity in forests, while such probability remains roughly constant along the gradient in shrublands. The different functional structure of RNs between forests and shrublands could contribute to explaining their co-occurrence as alternative stable states of the vegetation under the same climatic conditions. This review is not exhaustive of all the topics that can be addressed using the framework of RNs, but instead aims to present some of the interesting insights that it can bring to the field of plant community ecology. © 2024 The Author(s). Biological Reviews published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Filiaciones:
Alcántara J.M.:
Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, Jaén, 23071, Spain
Andalusian Interuniversity Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA), Avenida del Mediterráneo, Granada, 18071, Spain
Verdú M.:
Centro de Investigaciones Sobre Desertificación (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GV), Carretera de Moncada-Náquera Km 4.5, Valencia, Moncada, 46113, Spain
Garrido J.L.:
Departamento de Microbiología del Suelo y Sistemas Simbióticos, Estación Experimental del Zadín (EEZ-CSIC), Calle Profesor Albareda 1, Granada, 18008, Spain
Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Calle Americo Vespucio 26, Sevilla, 41092, Spain
Montesinos-Navarro A.:
Centro de Investigaciones Sobre Desertificación (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GV), Carretera de Moncada-Náquera Km 4.5, Valencia, Moncada, 46113, Spain
Aizen M.A.:
Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (INIBIOMA), Universidad Nacional del Comahue–CONICET, Pasaje Gutiérrez 1415, San Carlos de Bariloche, 8400, Argentina
Alifriqui M.:
Laboratory of Ecology and Environment, Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, Bd. Prince My Abdellah, BP 2390, Marrakech, 40000, Morocco
Allen D.:
Department of Biology, Middlebury College, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, 276 Bicentennial Way, Middlebury, 05753, VT, United States
Al-Namazi A.A.:
Sustainability and Environment Sector, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh, 11442, P.O. Box 6086, Saudi Arabia
Armas C.:
Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EEZA-CSIC), Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120 La Cañada, Almería, Spain
Bastida J.M.:
Departamento de Microbiología del Suelo y Sistemas Simbióticos, Estación Experimental del Zadín (EEZ-CSIC), Calle Profesor Albareda 1, Granada, 18008, Spain
Bellido T.:
Servici Devesa-Albufera, Vivers Municipals de El Saler, CV-500, km 8.5, Valencia, 46012, Spain
Paterno G.B.:
Biodiversity, Macroecology & Biogeography, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Wilhelmsplatz 1, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Briceño H.:
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto Biología Experimental, Centro Botánica Tropical, Apartado 1041A, Caracas, Venezuela
Camargo de Oliveira R.A.:
Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal do Paraná, R. Elétrica, 540 - Jardim das Américas, PR, Curitiba, 82590-300, Brazil
Campoy J.G.:
Department of Functional Biology (Area of Ecology), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Rúa Lope Gómez de Marzoa, s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain
Chaieb G.:
University of Bordeaux, UMR CNRS 5805 EPOC, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – CS 50023, Pessac, FR-33615, France
Chu C.:
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, No. 135 Xingang West Road, Guangzhou, 510275, China
Constantinou E.:
Faculty of Pure & Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, PO Box 12794, Nicosia, 2252, Cyprus
Delalandre L.:
Centre d'écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive (CEFE UMR 5175), 1919 route de Mende, Montpellier Cedex 5, 34293, France
Duarte M.:
Instituto de Conservación Biodiversidad y Territorio, Universidad Austral de Chile, Campus Isla Teja, Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile
Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Casilla, Santiago, 653, Chile
Faife-Cabrera M.:
Jardin Botanico de Villa Clara, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas, Carretera a Camajuaní Km. 5 y 1/2, Villa Clara, Santa Clara, Cuba
Fazlioglu F.:
Chair of Plant Ecology, University of Bayreuth, Building NWI, Bayreuth, D-95440, Germany
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ordu University, Cumhuriyet Campus, PK 52200 Center, Ordu, Turkey
Fernando E.S.:
Institute of Biology, National Science Complex, College of Science, University of the Philippines, Diliman, NCR, Quezon City, 1101, Philippines
Department of Forest Biological Sciences, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, Florencio Tamesis Hall, Martin Reyes St., UP, Laguna, Los Baños, 4031, Philippines
Flores J.:
División de Ciencias Ambientales, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, A.C, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, Col. Lomas 4a. Sección, San Luis Potosí, 78216, Mexico
Flores-Olvera H.:
Departamento de Botánica, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 3er. Circuito Exterior S/N, Ciudad Universitaria, Alcaldía Coyoacán, C.P. 04510, CDMX, Mexico
Fodor E.:
Faculty of Environmental Protection, Department of Forestry and Forest Engineering, University of Oradea, 26 Gen. Magheru Street, Oradea, Romania
Ganade G.:
Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário UFRN - Lagoa Nova, RN, Natal, CEP 59078-970, Brazil
Garcia M.B.:
Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC), Avda. Montañana 1005, Zaragoza, 50059, Spain
García-Fayos P.:
Centro de Investigaciones Sobre Desertificación (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GV), Carretera de Moncada-Náquera Km 4.5, Valencia, Moncada, 46113, Spain
Gavini S.S.:
Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (INIBIOMA), Universidad Nacional del Comahue–CONICET, Pasaje Gutiérrez 1415, San Carlos de Bariloche, 8400, Argentina
Goberna M.:
Department of Environment and Agronomy, Centro Nacional Instituto de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Carretera de La Coruña km 7.5, Madrid, 28040, Spain
Gómez-Aparicio L.:
Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IRNAS-CSIC), Avenida Reina Mercedes 10, Sevilla, 41012, Spain
González-Pendás E.:
Departamento de Investigaciones Botánicas, Centro de Investigaciones y Servicios Ambientales, Ecovida, Kilómetro 21/2 carretera a Luis Lazo, Pinar del Río, Cuba
González-Robles A.:
Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, Jaén, 23071, Spain
Andalusian Interuniversity Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA), Avenida del Mediterráneo, Granada, 18071, Spain
Ipekdal K.:
Division of Ecology, Department of Biology, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, 06800, Turkey
Kikvidze Z.:
Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, Room F-310, 5 Cholokashvili Ave, Tbilisi, 0162, Georgia
Ledo A.:
Calle Norte 20, Baros, Huesca, 22712, Spain
Lendínez S.:
Departamento de Microbiología del Suelo y Sistemas Simbióticos, Estación Experimental del Zadín (EEZ-CSIC), Calle Profesor Albareda 1, Granada, 18008, Spain
Liu H.:
State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, No. 135 Xingang West Road, Guangzhou, 510275, China
Lloret F.:
CREAF, U. Ecologia, Dept. Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Valles, 08193, Spain
López R.P.:
Instituto de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Puras y Naturales, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), campus universitario, calle 27, s/n, Cotacota, La Paz, Bolivia
López-García Á.:
Departamento de Microbiología del Suelo y Sistemas Simbióticos, Estación Experimental del Zadín (EEZ-CSIC), Calle Profesor Albareda 1, Granada, 18008, Spain
Lortie C.J.:
Department of Biology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, M3J1P3, ON, Canada
Losapio G.:
Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Quartier UNIL-Mouline, Bâtiment Géopolis, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland
Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Via Celoria 26, Milan, 20133, Italy
Lutz J.A.:
Wildland Resources, Utah State University, 5230 Old Main Hill, Logan, 84322-5230, UT, United States
Máliš F.:
Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 24, Zvolen, Slovakia
Manzaneda A.J.:
Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, Jaén, 23071, Spain
Marcilio-Silva V.:
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1479 Gortner Ave, Saint Paul, 55108, MN, United States
Michalet R.:
University of Bordeaux, UMR CNRS 5805 EPOC, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – CS 50023, Pessac, FR-33615, France
Molina-Venegas R.:
Department of Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, 28049, Spain
Navarro-Cano J.A.:
Department of Environment and Agronomy, Centro Nacional Instituto de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA-CSIC), Carretera de La Coruña km 7.5, Madrid, 28040, Spain
Novotny V.:
Biology Centre, Institute of Entomology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 1160/31, Ceske Budejovice, 370 05, Czech Republic
Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 1645/31a, Ceské Budejovice, 370 05, Czech Republic
Olesen J.M.:
Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114-116, Aarhus C, DK-8000, Denmark
Ortiz-Brunel J.P.:
Departamento de Botánica y Zoología, Centro Universitario de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad de Guadalajara, Camino Ing. Ramón Padilla Sánchez 2100, Nextipac, Jalisco, Zapopán, 45200, Mexico
Pajares-Murgó M.:
Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, Jaén, 23071, Spain
Andalusian Interuniversity Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA), Avenida del Mediterráneo, Granada, 18071, Spain
Perea A.J.:
Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, Jaén, 23071, Spain
Andalusian Interuniversity Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA), Avenida del Mediterráneo, Granada, 18071, Spain
Pérez-Hernández V.:
Departamento de Investigaciones Botánicas, Centro de Investigaciones y Servicios Ambientales, Ecovida, Kilómetro 21/2 carretera a Luis Lazo, Pinar del Río, Cuba
Pérez-Navarro M.Á.:
CREAF, U. Ecologia, Dept. Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Valles, 08193, Spain
Pistón N.:
Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EEZA-CSIC), Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120 La Cañada, Almería, Spain
Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Avenida Fuentenueva s/n, Granada, 18003, Spain
Prieto I.:
Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EEZA-CSIC), Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120 La Cañada, Almería, Spain
Department of Biodiversity and Environmental Management, Ecology Area, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of León, Cjón. Campus Vegazana, s/n, León, 24007, Spain
Prieto-Rubio J.:
Centro de Investigaciones Sobre Desertificación (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GV), Carretera de Moncada-Náquera Km 4.5, Valencia, Moncada, 46113, Spain
Pugnaire F.I.:
Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EEZA-CSIC), Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120 La Cañada, Almería, Spain
Ramírez N.:
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto Biología Experimental, Centro Botánica Tropical, Apartado 1041A, Caracas, Venezuela
Retuerto R.:
Department of Functional Biology (Area of Ecology), Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Rúa Lope Gómez de Marzoa, s/n, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain
Rey P.J.:
Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, Jaén, 23071, Spain
Andalusian Interuniversity Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA), Avenida del Mediterráneo, Granada, 18071, Spain
Rodriguez-Ginart D.A.:
Centro de Investigaciones Sobre Desertificación (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GV), Carretera de Moncada-Náquera Km 4.5, Valencia, Moncada, 46113, Spain
Sánchez-Martín R.:
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, 8903, Switzerland
Tavsanoglu Ç.:
Division of Ecology, Department of Biology, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, 06800, Turkey
Tedoradze G.:
Department of Plant Systematics and Geography, Institute of Botany, Ilia State University, Botanikuri Str. 1, Tbilisi, 0105, Georgia
Tercero-Araque A.:
Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, Jaén, 23071, Spain
Andalusian Interuniversity Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA), Avenida del Mediterráneo, Granada, 18071, Spain
Tielbörger K.:
Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Plant Ecology Group, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 5, Tübingen, 72076, Germany
Touzard B.:
University of Bordeaux, UMR CNRS 5805 EPOC, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – CS 50023, Pessac, FR-33615, France
Tüfekcioglu I.:
Division of Ecology, Department of Biology, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, 06800, Turkey
Turkis S.:
Faculty of Education, Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Ordu University, Cumhuriyet Campus, PK Center, Ordu, 52200, Turkey
Usero F.M.:
Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (EEZA-CSIC), Carretera de Sacramento s/n, 04120 La Cañada, Almería, Spain
Usta-Baykal N.:
Division of Ecology, Department of Biology, Hacettepe University, Beytepe, Ankara, 06800, Turkey
Valiente-Banuet A.:
Departamento de Ecología de la Biodiversidad, Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70-275, Ciudad de México, C.P. 04510, Mexico
Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Mexico
Vargas-Colin A.:
División de Ciencias Ambientales, Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, A.C, Camino a la Presa San José 2055, Col. Lomas 4a. Sección, San Luis Potosí, 78216, Mexico
Vogiatzakis I.:
Faculty of Pure & Applied Sciences, Open University of Cyprus, PO Box 12794, Nicosia, 2252, Cyprus
Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Amendola 165/A, Bari, 70126, Italy
Zamora R.:
Andalusian Interuniversity Institute for Earth System Research (IISTA), Avenida del Mediterráneo, Granada, 18071, Spain
Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Avenida Fuentenueva s/n, Granada, 18003, Spain
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