1. Priority effects
1. A unique equilibrium
Alternative transient states
2. Alternative stable states
3. Cycle of species composition
Invasion graph
Non-parametric graph approach
graph approach
Competitive communities
Food web assembly
Stability, Robustness, ... collapse
Mutualistic community assembly
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Facilitive PE
Niche construction
Inhibitory PE
Niche preemptition
Modification
Evolution-mediated PE (Monopolization)
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.
Song, C., Fukami, T., & Saavedra, S. (2021). Untangling the complexity of priority effects in multispecies communities. Ecology Letters, 24(11), 2301-2313.
Serván, C. A., & Allesina, S. (2021). Tractable models of ecological assembly. Ecology Letters, 24(5), 1029-1037.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.