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Chenguang Zhang
School of Life Sciences, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China

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Journal article
Published: 17 December 2019 in Forests
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Phylogenetic and functional diversities and their relationship are important for understanding community assembly, which relates to forest sustainability. Thus, both diversities have been used in ecological studies evaluating community responses to environmental changes. However, it is unclear whether these diversity measures can uncover the actual community assembly processes. Herein, we examined their utility to assess such assembly processes by analyzing similarities in phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic α- and β-diversities along an elevational gradient. Additionally, we examined the relationships among environment, phylogeny, and functional traits within the community. Based on our results, we evaluated whether phylogenetic or functional diversity could better reveal the actual community assembly processes. We found that taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional α-diversities were correlated with one another. Although the functional α-diversity showed a linear correlation with the elevational gradient, taxonomic and phylogenetic α-diversities showed unimodal patterns. Both phylogenetic and functional β-diversities correlated with taxonomic β-diversity, but there was no significant relationship between the former. Overall, our results evidenced that phylogenetic diversity and taxonomic diversity showed similar patterns, whereas functional diversity showed a relatively independent pattern, which may be due to limitations in the functional trait dimensions used in the present study. Although it is difficult to unravel whether the environment shapes phylogeny or functional traits within a community, phylogenetic diversity is a good proxy for assessing the assembly processes, whereas functional diversity may improve knowledge on the community by maximizing information about the functional trait dimensions.

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Jinshi Xu; Han Dang; Mao Wang; Yongfu Chai; Yaoxin Guo; Yu Chen; Chenguang Zhang; Ming Yue. Is Phylogeny More Useful than Functional Traits for Assessing Diversity Patterns Under Community Assembly Processes? Forests 2019, 10, 1159 .

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Jinshi Xu, Han Dang, Mao Wang, Yongfu Chai, Yaoxin Guo, Yu Chen, Chenguang Zhang, Ming Yue. Is Phylogeny More Useful than Functional Traits for Assessing Diversity Patterns Under Community Assembly Processes? Forests. 2019; 10 (12):1159.

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Jinshi Xu; Han Dang; Mao Wang; Yongfu Chai; Yaoxin Guo; Yu Chen; Chenguang Zhang; Ming Yue. 2019. "Is Phylogeny More Useful than Functional Traits for Assessing Diversity Patterns Under Community Assembly Processes?" Forests 10, no. 12: 1159.

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Published: 28 July 2014 in Applied Vegetation Science
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Yongfu Chai; Xiao Liu; Ming Yue; Jiangchao Guo; Mao Wang; Pengcheng Wan; Xiaofei Zhang; Chenguang Zhang. Leaf traits in dominant species from different secondary successional stages of deciduous forest on the Loess Plateau of northern China. Applied Vegetation Science 2014, 18, 50 -63.

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Yongfu Chai, Xiao Liu, Ming Yue, Jiangchao Guo, Mao Wang, Pengcheng Wan, Xiaofei Zhang, Chenguang Zhang. Leaf traits in dominant species from different secondary successional stages of deciduous forest on the Loess Plateau of northern China. Applied Vegetation Science. 2014; 18 (1):50-63.

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Yongfu Chai; Xiao Liu; Ming Yue; Jiangchao Guo; Mao Wang; Pengcheng Wan; Xiaofei Zhang; Chenguang Zhang. 2014. "Leaf traits in dominant species from different secondary successional stages of deciduous forest on the Loess Plateau of northern China." Applied Vegetation Science 18, no. 1: 50-63.