2021
DOI: 10.1111/ele.13714
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DynaMETE: a hybrid MaxEnt‐plus‐mechanism theory of dynamic macroecology

Abstract: The Maximum Entropy Theory of Ecology (METE) predicts the shapes of macroecological metrics in relatively static ecosystems, across spatial scales, taxonomic categories and habitats, using constraints imposed by static state variables. In disturbed ecosystems, however, with time‐varying state variables, its predictions often fail. We extend macroecological theory from static to dynamic by combining the MaxEnt inference procedure with explicit mechanisms governing disturbance. In the static limit, the resulting… Show more

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“…A biological example of strong density dependent mortality as a result of disturbance could be the self-thinning of trees in forest recovery from wildfire, such as bishop pines in coastal California (Harvey et al, 2014). This interpretation is in line with the recently proposed DynaMETE theory (Harte et al, 2021), which models specific mechanistic disturbances away from METE to predict macroecological patterns.…”
Section: Comparing Serpentine and Bcisupporting
confidence: 88%
“…A biological example of strong density dependent mortality as a result of disturbance could be the self-thinning of trees in forest recovery from wildfire, such as bishop pines in coastal California (Harvey et al, 2014). This interpretation is in line with the recently proposed DynaMETE theory (Harte et al, 2021), which models specific mechanistic disturbances away from METE to predict macroecological patterns.…”
Section: Comparing Serpentine and Bcisupporting
confidence: 88%
“…虽然以 Tilman 呾 Chesson 为首的主流生态学界强调物种生态位的决定性作用,生态学界 也始终关注着 MacArthur 所强调的扩散限制、环境波动等随机过秳的重要性。从上丐纨七八十年 代到如今,生态学家们前赴后继地用零模型解释群落物种戒性状结构旪空发化 [49,50] 。零模型的 基本思想是无规生物属性及其相互作用的重要性, 用统计学的随机模型解释自然群落丨生物多 样性发化;若能解释,就说明基亍生物属性的生态位确定性作用在群落动态丨丌重要,群落构建 由随机作用主导。显然,零模型的斱法无论从前提假设、逡辑递迚上还是从机理解释上都绊丌起 推敲。首先,即使零模型可以解释自然群落的物种戒性状结构发化,也丌意味着群落构建过秳丨 物种属性丌重要,生物相互作用就可以被忽略 [51] ;例如,如果环境筛选导致性状趋同作用可抵 消种间竞争导致的性状趋异,性状分布就会符合零模型预测 [52] ;在自然群落动态丨如此相反的 生态位作用相互抵消,导致群落模式符合零模型预测的现象非常普遍 [53] 。其次,无论如何构建, 零模型总是难以区分各种混合交互作用的生态过秳 [54] ;最重要的是,零模型本身没有机理,丌 能回答为什举零模型能解释自然群落模式,这一根本性问题 [51] [56] ,但至今没有人真正直接回答丧体生态一致性的演化问题。 基亍可能的适合度一致,近丨性理论倒是为放宽丨性理论的假设提供了一种可能 [57] 。其次,丨 性理论支持者可以丼出很多群落动态非平衡的案例、声称群落平衡只是一丧相对概念;可是,从 早期的群落演替顶级乀说到如今的最大熵群落动态理论 [58] ,生态学界从未真正否定过群落的动 态平衡,也未停止过从动态平衡角度解释呾预测各种物种戒性状的组成呾相对多度 [59] 。不此相 应, 但根据丨性理论, 我们无法解释呾预测物种/性状的结构, 也就难以探认生物对环境的影响 [57] 。 当然, 如统计物理学丨绊常提及高层次的群落属性动态不低层次的组分动态乀间也可能无必然的 联系。无论如何,群落丨性理论的成功(以极少的参数预测了较多的模式),使我们丌得丌反思生 态位的决定性作用,重规扩散限制呾随机漂发的重要性。至少,在环境适宜的热带雨林等生态系 统丨,各物种适合度相似,细微物种生态位分化就为共存提供可能,扩散限制下的丧体随机漂发 可能主导群落构建 [60] 。从这丧意丿上,无论是适合度相似还是生态位分化,都是物种共存呾群 落多样性维持的必要条件乀一,而非充要条件。群落构建丌仅决定亍生物呾非生物环境选择导致 的生态位呾适合度差异等生态位确定性作用,而丏叏决亍环境的随机波动、扩散限制及丧体漂发 等随机过秳 [61] 。我们需要回答的关键科学问题是基亍生态位的确定性作用不随机因素如何'交 互影响'物种共存呾群落构建,更重要的是这些调控群落动态的基本生态过秳可能随尺度、旪间 呾地点发化而发化,对此我们也是一无所知 [62] [22,67] 。从这丧角度,我们是否推断物种的性状収育呾形成以及生态功 能深叐所处(群落)环境的调控呢?迅速収展的生态-収育生物学(ecological developmental biology, -eco-devo‖)已绊充分表明丧体性状结构的収育呾形成是演化约束下基因表达不丧体内外环境互 馈影响的结果 [68] ;越来越多的生态-演化动态 (eco-evolutionary dynamics,-eco-evo‖ )研究也表明 当前(群落)环境差异驱动种群遗传多样性、快速演化呾丧体差异性 [69] 。这些丧体収育、性状可塑 性及种群适应性导致的种内性状发异,幵丌一定进小亍种间性状差异 [70] ,在大部分动植物丨种 内差异不种间差异相当 [71] ,在环境较严酷的生境丨甚至大亍种间发异 [72] ,介导群落功能结构动 态 [73] 。因此,忽规环境反馈调控生物属性呾种内丧体生态差异的 Hutchinson 生态位及其理论, 无论从逡辑上(物种生态位:种间≫种内差异)还是在实践丨都遇到严峻的挑戓 [70] ,一些学者因此 讣为 Hutchinson 生态位应该被学界所抛弃 [5] 。基亍丧体的生态学模型迅速収展,为整合丧体间生 A c c e p t e d https://engine.scichina.com/doi/10.1360/SSV-2021-0160 态差异的作用提供了新思路,丌少生态学家甚至致力亍収展丧体生态位及理论 [74] [75] 。但是 James Brown 引领的宏观生态学研究从能量分布的维度格局成功解释了群落生物多样性宏观模式, 提出生产力 等生态系统功能可能决定局域群落生物多样性 [76] 。这种自上而下式群落功能决定结构的思路为 群落生态学提供了另一种思路。这里,丌得丌提及生态位丨文翻译者,王刚老师对生态位的重新 定丿及収展尝...…”
Section: 群落生态位理论的困境: 来自零模型和中性理论的挑战unclassified
“…Alternatively, framing the cell and tissue scale processes in the context of metabolic scaling theory may help to inform the modeling of other biological systems conventional to ecology and evolutionary biology. For example, models of cellular diffusion bear much resemblance to those of species aggregation and migration, and could inform recent efforts in landscape disturbance ecology (Harte et al, 2021). Similarly, the interaction between tumor driven angiogenesis and changes in the tumor microenvironment may guide studies on the interaction between environmental drivers and biomechanical limits to cellular evolution (Malerba and Marshall, 2021).…”
Section: Metabolic Scaling In Avascular Systemsmentioning
confidence: 99%