Co-occurrence is not evidence of ecological interactions¶
Blanchet, F. G., Cazelles, K., & Gravel, D. (2020). Co-occurrence is not evidence of ecological interactions. Ecology Letters, 23(7).
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Primes¶
- Co-location
- Everything that usually interests an analyst about things found in the same place — that they react, converse, contend for one power feed, hand work to each other — lies downstream of this relation and must be supplied by some further mechanism that the relation itself neither names nor implies.
This sourceArgues that shared occupancy of a region licenses no inference about interaction between the occupants, which has to be supplied by a separate mechanism and separate evidence.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The work's own abstract states that spatial association between species is a poor proxy for ecological interaction, backing only the negative half of this claim, and only for species co-occurrence.
“In this paper, we present a series of arguments based on probability, sampling, food web and coexistence theories supporting that significant spatial associations between species (or lack thereof) is a poor proxy for ecological interactions.”
- Everything that usually interests an analyst about things found in the same place — that they react, converse, contend for one power feed, hand work to each other — lies downstream of this relation and must be supplied by some further mechanism that the relation itself neither names nor implies.
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