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Community ecology research often contrasts neutrality versus niche theories. This study reveals environmental fluctuations largely drive community dynamics, with intraspecific interactions playing a regulatory role.

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Area of Science:

Community ecology
Ecological dynamics
Population biology

Background:

Community assembly research traditionally uses dichotomous approaches (e.g., neutrality vs. niche, compensatory dynamics vs. environmental forcing).
Existing studies often examine community structure and dynamics but less frequently decompose temporal variation in species abundances into distinct contributing factors.

Purpose of the Study:

To statistically decompose temporal fluctuations in species abundances into contributions from environmental stochasticity and inter-/intraspecific interactions.
To determine the dominant drivers of community dynamics across various taxa.
To directly assess the relative importance of environmental forcing versus compensatory dynamics.

Main Methods:

Application of a refined statistical methodology to analyze temporal variation in species abundances.
Decomposition of population fluctuations into components attributable to environmental stochasticity, intraspecific interactions, and interspecific interactions.
Analysis of community data from a diverse range of taxa.

Main Results:

Environmental fluctuations were identified as the primary driver of community dynamics across the studied taxa.
Intraspecific interactions were found to regulate populations to varying degrees, while interspecific interactions had minor effects.
Compensatory dynamics were largely outweighed by environmental forcing, which tended to synchronize population dynamics.

Conclusions:

Environmental forcing, rather than compensatory dynamics, is the dominant factor shaping community assembly and temporal variation in species abundances.
Intraspecific interactions play a significant role in population regulation within communities.
The findings provide direct evidence for the overriding influence of environmental stochasticity in synchronizing population dynamics.