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3 - Network Assembly

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

Cang Hui  and
David Richardson
Cang Hui
Affiliation:
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
David Richardson
Affiliation:
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
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To assess community assembly via natural colonisation and the potential ceiling of species richness in local communities, Wilson and Simberloff (1969) fumigated nine red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) islands in Florida Bay, United States. This exemplifies the need in ecology to elucidate the concepts regarding community succession and assembly. New species arrive at a site predominantly via chance and dispersal, while resident species interact with each other via eco-evolutionary games (Chapter 2). Biotic interactions act as engineers to form ecological networks. Together with filters and forces from environmental and disturbance gradients, these ecological interaction networks define realised ecological niches and mediate community assembly rules and trajectories, thereby building an ecological house on the hill. With limited space and resource and the inevitable minimum sustainable size required for a viable population to survive stochasticity and disturbance, there must be an upper bound on the number and kinds of species that can be accommodated in a community, either via natural or human-mediated colonisation of both regional endemics and alien species. For this reason, questions pertaining to the ways in which an ecological community absorbs new arrivals have been on the agenda of community ecology since its inception. Despite progress on that front, making precise predictions about the trajectory of community assembly, the characteristics of the eventual resident species and the realised number of resident species in a local community remains a formidable challenge.

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Invading Ecological Networks , pp. 109 - 204
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