National Natural Science Foundation of China(31000201,31370445,31061160188);National Key Basic Research Program of China(2014CB954104);the West Light Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Special Program for Basic Research of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2012FY10400,2011FY120200).
Aims While using phylogenetic and functional approaches to test the mechanisms of community assembly,functional traits often act as the proxy of niches.However,there is little detailed knowledge regarding the correlat...