Assembly rules in a resource gradient: Competition and abiotic filtering determine the structuring of plant communities in stressful environments

• Bruno Sousa Menezes ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bruno.menezes@ufc.br (BSM); tchesca@ufc.br (FSA)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Science Centre, Federal University of Ceará—UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1134-8996

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• Fernando Roberto Martins,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas—UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil

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• Ellen Cristina Dantas Carvalho,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Science Centre, Federal University of Ceará—UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

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• Bruno Cruz Souza,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Science Centre, Federal University of Ceará—UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

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• Andrea Pereira Silveira,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Itapipoca Faculty of Education, Ceará State University—UECE, Itapipoca, CE, Brazil

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• Maria Iracema Bezerra Loiola,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Science Centre, Federal University of Ceará—UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

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• Francisca Soares Araújo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bruno.menezes@ufc.br (BSM); tchesca@ufc.br (FSA)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Science Centre, Federal University of Ceará—UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

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