Index

• What is "community assembly"?

• 1. Priority effects

• Ecological outcomes

• 1. A unique equilibrium

  • Alternative transient states

• 2. Alternative stable states

• 3. Cycle of species composition

• Analysis of theoretical models

  • Invasion graph

  • Non-parametric graph approach

  • graph approach

• Community types

  • Competitive communities

  • Food web assembly

    • Stability, Robustness, ... collapse

What is "community assembly"?

• Priority effects

• Facilitive PE

  • Niche construction

• Inhibitory PE

  • Niche preemptition

  • Modification

  • Evolution-mediated PE (Monopolization)

Analysis of theoretical models

• Invasion graph

  • Spaak, J. W., & Schreiber, S. J. (2023). Building modern coexistence theory from the ground up: The role of community assembly. Ecology Letters, 26(11), 1840-1861.

• Non-parametric graph approach

  • Song, C., Fukami, T., & Saavedra, S. (2021). Untangling the complexity of priority effects in multispecies communities. Ecology Letters, 24(11), 2301-2313.

• Assembly graph

  • Serván, C. A., & Allesina, S. (2021). Tractable models of ecological assembly. Ecology Letters, 24(5), 1029-1037.

Alternative stable states

< References >

a. Tipping points

• Dakos, V., Matthews, B., Hendry, A. P., Levine, J., Loeuille, N., Norberg, J., ... & De Meester, L. (2019). Ecosystem tipping points in an evolving world. Nature ecology & evolution, 3(3), 355-362.

b. Complex communities

• Strauss, S. Y. (2014). Ecological and evolutionary responses in complex communities: implications for invasions and eco‐evolutionary feedbacks. Oikos, 123(3), 257-266.

Alternative transient states

< References >

• Fukami, T., & Nakajima, M. (2011). Community assembly: alternative stable states or alternative transient states?. Ecology letters, 14(10), 973-984.

• Faillace, C. A., Grunberg, R. L., & Morin, P. J. (2022). Historical contingency and the role of post‐invasion evolution in alternative community states. Ecology, e3711.

Keyword & Reference

• Priority effects

[Reference]

• Fukami, T. (2015). Historical contingency in community assembly: integrating niches, species pools, and priority effects. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 46, 1-23.

• Van Woesik, R., Shlesinger, T., Grottoli, A. G., Toonen, R. J., Vega Thurber, R., Warner, M. E., ... & Zaneveld, J. (2022). Coral‐bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales. Global Change Biology, 28(14), 4229-4250.

• Historical contingency

[Reference]

• Fukami, T. (2015). Historical contingency in community assembly: integrating niches, species pools, and priority effects. Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 46, 1-23.