Intraspecific trait variation improves the detection of deterministic community assembly processes in early successional forests, but not in late successional forests
Shuai Fang1,2, Marc William Cadotte3,4, Zuoqiang Yuan1, Fei Lin1, Ji Ye1, Zhanqing Hao1 and Xugao Wang1,*
1 Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China 2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 3 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto-Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada 4 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Correspondence address. Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China. Tel: +86-24-83970325; Fax: +86-24-83970300; E-mail: wangxg@iae.ac.cn
Shuai Fang, Marc William Cadotte, Zuoqiang Yuan, Fei Lin, Ji Ye, Zhanqing Hao and Xugao Wang. Intraspecific trait variation improves the detection of deterministic community assembly processes in early successional forests, but not in late successional forests[J]. J Plant Ecol, 2019, 12(4): 593-602.