A Critique of the Space-for-Time Substitution Practice in Community Ecology.
community ecology
interspecific competition
nonstationary environment
space-for-time substitution
successional processes
Journal
Trends in ecology & evolution
ISSN: 1872-8383
Titre abrégé: Trends Ecol Evol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8805125
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2019
05 2019
Historique:
received:
05
10
2018
revised:
25
01
2019
accepted:
29
01
2019
pubmed:
3
3
2019
medline:
12
10
2019
entrez:
3
3
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The space-for-time substitution assumption is often used implicitly for studying ecological processes in static spatial data sets. Since ecological processes occur in time, this practice is problematic, especially in nonstationary environments. More processes might lead to the same spatial pattern, and instead of testing hypotheses on ecological processes by analyzing spatial variation in static data, it is more judicious to report the observed spatial patterns and only discuss which ecological processes are in concordance with the observed spatial pattern. Alternatively, it might be feasible to combine relatively sparse time-series data or experimental data with spatial variation data and analyze such data types in a common statistical framework.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30824195
pii: S0169-5347(19)30028-X
doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2019.01.013
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
416-421Informations de copyright
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