| 词条 | Assembly rules |
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Community assembly rules are a set of controversial rules in ecology, first proposed by Jared Diamond.[1] RulesThe rules were developed after more than a decade of research into the avian assemblages on islands near New Guinea. The rules assert that competition is responsible for determining the patterns of assemblage composition. Diamond's paper sparked nearly two decades worth of controversy in the literature, from the late seventies through the late nineties{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} and is considered a turning point in community ecology{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}. The disagreement continues to this day.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} Rule 1: Forbidden species combinationsThe first rule is "forbidden species combinations". Diamond's hypothesis was that competition, not random immigration, was the main force structuring the species composition of islands. So for example, the Bismarck black myzomela (Myzomela pammelaena) excludes the black sunbird (Nectarinia sericea). The Bismarck black myzomela lives on 23 of the 41 surveyed islands in the Bismarck Archipelago, but not on any of the 14 islands inhabited by the black sunbird. The two birds are about the same size, and both use their curved bills to sip nectar; Diamond argued that competition affects their distribution.[2] Rule 2: Reduced niche overlapCase tested the assembly rule that species occurring together on islands should have less niche overlap than random assemblages because they have undergone specialization.[3] His study measured niche overlap of lizards on 37 islands near Baja California and compared niche overlap to the median niche overlap of computer generated random species assemblages. Case found that 30 of the 37 islands had lower niche overlap than the random assemblages and that some of the competition is due to interspecific competition. TestingTesting the assembly rules is a complex process that often uses computer simulations to compare experimental data with characteristics of random assemblages of species. The rules are generally regarded as hypotheses that need to be tested on an individual basis, not as accepted conclusions. Alternative theoryAs a reaction to the assembly rules controversy, ecologist Stephen Hubbell proposed that the abundance and diversity of species in a community is determined mainly by random dispersal, speciation, and extinction. This came to be known as the unified neutral theory of biodiversity.[4] Notes1. ^{{cite book |title=Ecology and Evolution of Communities |editor=Cody ML, Diamond JM |publisher=Belknap Press, Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, MA |year=1975 |url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674224445 |pages=342–444}} 2. ^Erik Stokstad (2009) 'On the Origin of Ecological Structure', Science 2 Oct 2009 pp. 33–35. 3. ^{{cite journal |last=Case |first=Ted |year=1983 |title=Niche overlap and the assembly of island lizard communities |jstor=3544102 |journal=Oikos |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=427–433 |doi=10.2307/3544102}} 4. ^Stephen Hubbell, 2001. References
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