@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref19522, author = {Nicolas Hubert and Emmanuel Paradis and Henrich Bruggemann and Serge Planes}, title = {Community assembly and diversification in Indo-Pacific coral reef fishes}, year = {2011}, keywords = {Phylogenetic theory and methods, Fish, Macroevolutioon}, doi = {10.1002/ece3.19}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.19/abstract}, pmid = {}, journal = {Ecology and Evolution}, volume = {1}, number = {3}, pages = {229--277}, abstract = {Theories of species coexistence have played a central role in ecology and evolutionary studies of the origin and maintenance of biodiversity in highly diverse communities. The concept of niche and associated theories predicts that competition for suitable habitat and available ecological space lead to a ceiling in species richness that influences further diversification patterns. By contrast, the neutral theory supports that speciation is stochastic and diversity-independent. We examined community structure and phylogenetic diversification rates in three families and 14 sites within coral reef fish communities from the Indian and Pacific oceans. Using the phylogenetic relationships among 157 species estimated with 2300-bp of mitochondrial DNA, we tested predictions in terms of species coexistence from the neutral and niche theories. Our findings demonstrate that community phylogenetic structure shifts during community assembly to a pattern of dispersion as a consequence of allopatric speciation at the regional scale and phylogenetic conservatism of habitat use at the local scale. Furthermore, we found evidence for a negative feedback of community filling on diversification suggesting that species interactions in ecological communities influence macroevolutionary patterns. Finally, our results show that community assembly is not a random process and that ecological drivers in communities are important factors in shaping communities structure.} }

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