因為毛毛的主題訂得頗細, 一時之間找不到相似的paper, 不過在景觀生態領域中, 把植群細分下去(而不只是圈一大塊命名為喬木)似乎已有許多研究.
雖然在有關景觀生態學的遠景的書中, 並不會很重視這種越做越細的方向, 但下面這篇paper還上了Science, 我想在學術上有其貢獻, 可以想見在景觀設計和管理實務方面也很重要.
Bill Shipley, Denis Vile, Éric Garnier. (2006). From Plant Traits to Plant Communities: A Statistical Mechanistic Approach to Biodiversity. Science. 314: 812-814.
We developed a quantitative method, analogous to those used in statistical mechanics, to predict how biodiversity will vary across environments, which plant species from a species pool will be found in which relative abundances in a given environment, and which plant traits determine community assembly. This provides a scaling from plant traits to ecological communities while bypassing the complications of population dynamics. Our method treats community development as a sorting process involving species that are ecologically equivalent except with respect to particular functional traits, which leads to a constrained random assembly of species; the relative abundance of each species adheres to a general exponential distribution as a function of its traits. Using data for eight functional traits of 30 herbaceous species and community-aggregated values of these traits in 12 sites along a 42-year chronosequence of secondary succession, we predicted 94% of the variance in the relative abundances.
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