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Anthropogenic disturbance expands the climatic limits of annual plant dominance
Niv DeMalach, Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Oded Hollander +54
Disturbance regimes and nutrient inputs are changing worldwide, with consequences for the structure and functioning of plant communities. Classical life-history theory predicts tha…
Revising the global biogeography of annual and perennial plants
Tyler Poppenwimer, Itay Mayrose, Niv DeMalach
There are two main life cycles in plants, annual and perennial. These life cycles are associated with different traits that determine ecosystem function. Although life cycles are t…
Contrasting dynamics of seed banks and standing vegetation of annuals and perennials along a rainfall gradient
Niv DeMalach, Jaime Kigel, Marcelo Sternberg
The soil seed bank is a major component of plant communities. However, long-term analyses of the dynamics of the seed bank and the ensuing vegetation are rare. Here, we studied the…
Density-dependent and independent mechanisms jointly reduce species performance under nitrogen enrichment
David Sampson Issaka, Or Gross, Itunuoluwa Ayilara +2
Nitrogen (N) deposition is a primary driver of species loss in plant communities globally. However, the mechanisms by which high N availability causes species loss remain unclear.…
The soil seed bank can buffer long-term compositional changes in annual plant communities
Niv DeMalach, Jaime Kigel, Marcelo Sternberg
Ecological theory predicts that the soil seed bank stabilises the composition of annual plant communities in the face of environmental variability. However, long-term data on the c…
Coexistence under hierarchical resource exploitation: the role of R*-preemption tradeoff
Man Qi, Niv DeMalach, Tao Sun +1
Resource competition theory predicts coexistence and exclusion patterns based on species R*s, the minimum resource values required for a species to persist. A central assumption of…
The effects of ecological selection on species diversity and trait distribution: predictions and an empirical test
DeMalach Niv, Po-Ju Ke, Tadashi Fukami
Ecological selection is a major driver of community assembly. Selection is classified as stabilizing when species with intermediate trait values gain the highest reproductive succe…
Alternative states in plant communities driven by a life-history tradeoff and demographic stochasticity
Niv DeMalach, Nadav Shnerb, Tadashi Fukami
Life-history tradeoffs among species are major drivers of community assembly. Most studies investigate how tradeoffs promote deterministic coexistence of species. It remains unclea…
Plant species accumulation curves are determined by evenness and spatial aggregation in drylands worldwide
Niv DeMalach, Hugo Saiz, Eli Zaady +1
Species accumulation curves (SAC), i.e. the relationship between species richness and the number of sampling units in a given community, can be used to describe diversity patterns…
Seed mass diversity along resource gradients: the role of allometric growth rate and size-asymmetric competition
Niv DeMalach, Ronen Kadmon
The large variation in seed mass among species inspired a vast array of theoretical and empirical research attempting to explain this variation. So far, seed mass variation was inv…