A general framework for quantitatively assessing ecological stochasticity
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control · University of Oklahoma · +6 more institutions
Abstract
Significance An ecological community is a dynamic complex system with a myriad of interacting species, which are controlled by various scale-dependent deterministic and stochastic forces. With rapid advances in genomics technologies, categorizing biological diversity, particularly microbial diversity, becomes relatively easy, but the great challenge is to disentangle the mechanisms controlling biological diversity. The general null model-based framework developed in this study provides an effective and robust tool to ecologists for quantitatively assessing ecological stochasticity. By highlighting the caveats such as model selection, similarity metrics, and spatial scales, this study provides guidance for…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 53.07
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 66
Authors
4- DNDaliang NingCorresponding
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, University of Oklahoma, Tsinghua University
- YDYe Deng
Shandong University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, University of Oklahoma
- JMJames M. Tiedje
Michigan State University
- JZJizhong Zhou
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, University of Oklahoma, Tsinghua University
Topics & keywords
- Null model
- Ecology
- Ecological succession
- Community
- Competition (biology)
- Similarity (geometry)
- Noise (video)
- Econometrics
- Life in Land
Funding
- UDU.S. Department of EnergyAwards: -AC02-05CH11231, 05CH11231, Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-SC0010715, SC0016247, AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02, DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-SC0014079, DE-SC0016247, DE-AC02-
- OOOffice of ScienceAwards: Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231, DE-SC0014079, AC02-05CH11231, -AC02-05CH11231, DE-AC02, DE-SC0010715
- BABiological and Environmental ResearchAwards: 05CH11231, DE-SC0010715, SC0016247, DE-SC0016247, DE-AC02-05CH11231, AC02-05CH11231, DE-SC0014079
- LBLawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryAwards: DE-AC02-05CH11231, 05CH11231, AC02-05CH11231