priority effect

The first study to explicitly mention priority effects was published in 1983.

Priority effects are a central and pervasive element of ecological community development.

Most of the earliest empirical evidence for priority effects came from studies on aquatic animals.

The literature on priority effects is currently growing in both depth and breadth.

Such priority effects could have dramatic impacts on community composition and food web structure.

These studies indicate that priority effects may not be the only or the most important historical factor affecting the trajectory of community development.

One example of the inhibition model, and the priority effect, occurs in South Australia.

This study was especially important because it was able to identify a mechanism driving observed priority effects.

Although many studies have documented priority effects, the persistence of these effects over time often remains unclear.

Priority effects have important implications for ecological restoration.

He hypothesized that predation mediated priority effects by reducing competition between frog species.

Terrestrial studies on priority effects are rare.

Priority effects in the recruitment of juvenile coral-reef fishes.

They identified priority effects as a manifestation of the interaction between dispersal constraints and internal dynamics.

Morin (1987) also observed that priority effects became less important in the presence of a predatory salamander.

Initial tests for priority effects among spiders that co-occur on sagebrush shrubs.

In the late 1980s, several studies examined priority effects in aquatic microcosms.

Priority effects in coral reef fish communities.

In this sense, succession theory implicitly recognized priority effects; the prior arrival of certain species had important impacts on future community composition.

Priority effects and species coexistence: experiments with fungal-breeding Drosophila.

More recent studies on tree frogs have also documented both types of priority effect (Morin 1987, Warner et al. 1991).

Although early research focused on animals and aquatic systems, more recent studies have begun to examine terrestrial and plant-based priority effects.

Interactions after death: plant litter controls priority effects in a successional plant community.

Priority effects that influence the ability of the plant species to establish would indirectly affect the establishment success of the associated herbivore.

A few studies have begun to explore the mechanisms driving observed priority effects (e.g., Palmer et al. 2003).