Data from: Competition and coexistence in plant communities: intraspecific competition is stronger than interspecific competition

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Theory predicts that intraspecific competition should be stronger than interspecific competition for any pair of stably coexisting species, yet previous literature reviews found little support for this pattern. We screened over 5400 publications and identified 39 studies that quantified phenomenological intraspecific and interspecific interactions in terrestrial plant communities. Of the 67% of species pairs in which both intra- and interspecific effects were negative (competition), intraspecific competition was, on average, four to five-fold stronger than interspecific competition. Of the remaining pairs, 93% featured intraspecific competition and interspecific facilitation, a situation that stabilizes coexistence. The difference between intra- and interspecific effects tended to be larger in observational than experimental data sets, in field than greenhouse studies, and in studies that quantified population growth over the full life cycle rather than single fitness components. Our results imply that processes promoting stable coexistence at local scales are common and consequential across terrestrial plant communities.

OCLC

1153354604

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Dataset

DCMI Type

Dataset

File Format

.zip, .R, .Rhistory, .csv, .txt

Viewing Instructions

The zip archive contains one data file and a number of R scripts. These are all the files needed to reproduce the analyses reported in the paper. The readme.txt file inside the zip archive provides instructions on running the scripts. datapluscode.zip

Publication Date

5-21-2019

Funder

NSF, Division of Environmental Biology (DEB)

Publisher

Dryad

Award Number

NSF, Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) 1353078; NSF, Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) 1054040

Award Title

CAREER: Forecasting Climate Change Impacts on Plant Communities? When Do Species Interactions Matter? (1054040)

Referenced by

Adler, P. B., Smull, D., Beard, K. H., Choi, R. T., Furniss, T., Kulmatiski, A., Meiners, J. M., Tredennick, A. T., & Veblen, K. E. (2018). Competition and coexistence in plant communities: Intraspecific competition is stronger than interspecific competition. Ecology Letters, 21(9), 1319–1329. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13098

Language

eng

Code Lists

See README.txt

Disciplines

Natural Resources Management and Policy

License

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q5mg97b

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