Species pool
The ecological and
biogeographical concept of the species pool describes all species available that could potentially colonize and inhabit a focal habitat area.[1][2]
The concept lays emphasis on the fact that "local evolutionary processes acting at large spatial and temporal scales.[1] The absent portion of species pool—dark diversity—has been used to understand processes influencing local communities.[4] Methods to estimate potential but absent species are developing.[4]
It has been hypothesized that there might be a direct correlation between species richness and the size of the species pool for
plant communities.[5] Elsewhere, it was reported that "trade-offs and species pool structure (size and trait distribution) determines the shape of the plant productivity-diversity relationship. [6]
References
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- ^ Jeremy Fox (2011). "Species pools and the fallacy of composition".
in any complete explanation of local community structure, the properties of the species pool won't be exogenously determined. There's nowhere on earth that's external to community ecology; every population of every species is and always has been part of some local community somewhere
- ^ PMID 21195505.
- JSTOR 3544854.
High species diversity is expected when the existing species-pool contains many species, and comparatively low species diversity will be found when the species-pool is small.
- PMID 29133911.