Whether biological communities are deterministic or stochastic assemblages of species has long been a central topic of ecology. The widely demonstrated presence of structural patterns in nature may imply the existence of rules that regulate the organization of ecological communities. In this review, I present a compilation of major assembly rules that fundament, in a great proportion, the community assembly theory. Initially, I present a general overview of key concepts associated to the assembly of communities, in particular the origin of assembly rules, definition, the problem of scale and underlying mechanisms in the structure of ecological communities. Subsequently, two major approaches or paradigms (i.e. species-based and trait-based) ...
International audienceDescribing how communities change over space and time is crucial to better und...
International audienceDeciphering the effect of neutral and deterministic processes on community ass...
The existence of assembly rules and the importance of deterministic versus stochastic processes in...
Whether biological communities are deterministic or stochastic assemblages of species has long been ...
Community assembly refers to any ecological process that operates to select species from a regional ...
The term 'assembly rules' was first coined by Diamond in 1975. But the concept of constraints on the...
Understanding how communities of living organisms assemble has been a central question in ecology si...
COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY: CONCEPTS, DOMAIN AND THEORETICAL STRUCTURECommunity assembly refers to any ecolo...
Assembly rules allows to investigate the patterns of ecological communities structuring. These patte...
Ecological communities are seldom, if ever, biological individuals. They lack causal boundaries as t...
In this paper we present a comprehensive approach to detect structural patterns in interactive commu...
Traditionally, the dynamics of community assembly has been analyzed by means of deterministic models...
Community assembly refers to any ecological process that operates to select species from a regional ...
Ecological communities are seldom, if ever, biological individuals. They lack causal boundaries as t...
A key question in community ecology is whether communities are a natural level of biological organi...
International audienceDescribing how communities change over space and time is crucial to better und...
International audienceDeciphering the effect of neutral and deterministic processes on community ass...
The existence of assembly rules and the importance of deterministic versus stochastic processes in...
Whether biological communities are deterministic or stochastic assemblages of species has long been ...
Community assembly refers to any ecological process that operates to select species from a regional ...
The term 'assembly rules' was first coined by Diamond in 1975. But the concept of constraints on the...
Understanding how communities of living organisms assemble has been a central question in ecology si...
COMMUNITY ASSEMBLY: CONCEPTS, DOMAIN AND THEORETICAL STRUCTURECommunity assembly refers to any ecolo...
Assembly rules allows to investigate the patterns of ecological communities structuring. These patte...
Ecological communities are seldom, if ever, biological individuals. They lack causal boundaries as t...
In this paper we present a comprehensive approach to detect structural patterns in interactive commu...
Traditionally, the dynamics of community assembly has been analyzed by means of deterministic models...
Community assembly refers to any ecological process that operates to select species from a regional ...
Ecological communities are seldom, if ever, biological individuals. They lack causal boundaries as t...
A key question in community ecology is whether communities are a natural level of biological organi...
International audienceDescribing how communities change over space and time is crucial to better und...
International audienceDeciphering the effect of neutral and deterministic processes on community ass...
The existence of assembly rules and the importance of deterministic versus stochastic processes in...