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Yoshikawa T, Koide D, Yokomizo H, Kim JY, Kadoya T. Assessing ecosystem vulnerability under severe uncertainty of global climate change. Sci Rep 2023; 13:5932. [PMID: 37045937 PMCID: PMC10097691 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31597-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/14/2023] [Indexed: 04/14/2023] Open
Abstract
Assessing the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of species, communities, and ecosystems is essential for successful conservation. Climate change, however, induces extreme uncertainty in various pathways of assessments, which hampers robust decision-making for conservation. Here, we developed a framework that allows us to quantify the level of acceptable uncertainty as a metric of ecosystem robustness, considering the uncertainty due to climate change. Under the framework, utilizing a key concept from info-gap decision theory, vulnerability is measured as the inverse of maximum acceptable uncertainty to fulfill the minimum required goal for conservation. We applied the framework to 42 natural forest ecosystems and assessed their acceptable uncertainties in terms of maintenance of species richness and forest functional type. Based on best-guess estimate of future temperature in various GCM models and RCP scenarios, and assuming that tree species survival is primarily determined by mean annual temperature, we performed simulations with increasing deviation from the best-guess temperature. Our simulations indicated that the acceptable uncertainty varied greatly among the forest plots, presumably reflecting the distribution of ecological traits and niches among species within the communities. Our framework provides acceptable uncertainty as an operational metric of ecosystem robustness under uncertainty, while incorporating both system properties and socioeconomic conditions. We argue that our framework can enhance social consensus building and decision-making in the face of the extreme uncertainty induced by global climate change.
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- Tetsuro Yoshikawa
- National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan.
- Graduate School of Science, Osaka Metropolitan University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan.
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan
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- Department of Biological Science, Kunsan National University, 558 Daehak-ro, Gunsan-si, Jeolabuk-do, 54150, Republic of Korea
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan
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Matsubara N, Goto A, Uchida K, Sasaki T. Patterns of flower-visiting insects depend on flowering phenological shifts along an altitudinal gradient in subalpine moorland ecosystems. Biologia (Bratisl) 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s11756-022-01284-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Ishii NI, Hirota SK, Matsuo A, Sato MP, Sasaki T, Suyama Y. Species–genetic diversity correlations depend on ecological similarity between multiple moorland plant species. OIKOS 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.09023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Naohiro I. Ishii
- Field Science Center, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku Univ., Naruko‐onsen Osaki Miyagi Japan
- Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National Univ., Hodogaya Yokohama Kanagawa Japan
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- Field Science Center, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku Univ., Naruko‐onsen Osaki Miyagi Japan
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- Field Science Center, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku Univ., Naruko‐onsen Osaki Miyagi Japan
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- Field Science Center, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku Univ., Naruko‐onsen Osaki Miyagi Japan
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- Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National Univ., Hodogaya Yokohama Kanagawa Japan
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- Field Science Center, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku Univ., Naruko‐onsen Osaki Miyagi Japan
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Gao J, Liu M, Shi S, Liu Y, Duan Y, Lv X, Bohu T, Li Y, Hu Y, Wang N, Wang Q, Zhuang G, Zhuang X. Disentangling Responses of the Subsurface Microbiome to Wetland Status and Implications for Indicating Ecosystem Functions. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9020211. [PMID: 33498486 PMCID: PMC7909544 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9020211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Revised: 12/31/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
In this study, we analyzed microbial community composition and the functional capacities of degraded sites and restored/natural sites in two typical wetlands of Northeast China-the Phragmites marsh and the Carex marsh, respectively. The degradation of these wetlands, caused by grazing or land drainage for irrigation, alters microbial community components and functional structures, in addition to changing the aboveground vegetation and soil geochemical properties. Bacterial and fungal diversity at the degraded sites were significantly lower than those at restored/natural sites, indicating that soil microbial groups were sensitive to disturbances in wetland ecosystems. Further, a combined analysis using high-throughput sequencing and GeoChip arrays showed that the abundance of carbon fixation and degradation, and ~95% genes involved in nitrogen cycling were increased in abundance at grazed Phragmites sites, likely due to the stimulating impact of urine and dung deposition. In contrast, the abundance of genes involved in methane cycling was significantly increased in restored wetlands. Particularly, we found that microbial composition and activity gradually shifts according to the hierarchical marsh sites. Altogether, this study demonstrated that microbial communities as a whole could respond to wetland changes and revealed the functional potential of microbes in regulating biogeochemical cycles.
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- Jie Gao
- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (J.G.); (Y.L.); (N.W.); (Q.W.)
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China; (M.L.); (Y.L.); (Y.H.)
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- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
- CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China; (M.L.); (Y.L.); (Y.H.)
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (J.G.); (Y.L.); (N.W.); (Q.W.)
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- Beijing Business Department, Beijing Enterprises Water Group Limited, Beijing 100124, China;
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- Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China;
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- CSIRO Mineral Resources, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia;
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China; (M.L.); (Y.L.); (Y.H.)
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China; (M.L.); (Y.L.); (Y.H.)
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (J.G.); (Y.L.); (N.W.); (Q.W.)
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (J.G.); (Y.L.); (N.W.); (Q.W.)
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (J.G.); (Y.L.); (N.W.); (Q.W.)
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
- Correspondence: (G.Z.); (X.Z.); Tel.: +86-10-62849613 (G.Z.); +86-10-62849193 (X.Z.)
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Environmental Biotechnology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; (J.G.); (Y.L.); (N.W.); (Q.W.)
- College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
- Correspondence: (G.Z.); (X.Z.); Tel.: +86-10-62849613 (G.Z.); +86-10-62849193 (X.Z.)
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Terui A, Finlay JC, Hansen AT, Kozarek JL. Quantifying cryptic function loss during community disassembly. J Appl Ecol 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Akira Terui
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior University of Minnesota Saint Paul MN USA
- Department of Forest Science Graduate School of Agriculture Hokkaido University Sapporo Japan
- Department of Biology University of North Carolina at Greensboro Greensboro NC USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior University of Minnesota Saint Paul MN USA
- St. Anthony Falls Laboratory University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN USA
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- Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering University of Kansas Lawrence KS USA
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Carmona CP, de Bello F, Mason NWH, Lepš J. Trait probability density (TPD): measuring functional diversity across scales based on TPD with R. Ecology 2019; 100:e02876. [PMID: 31471976 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2876] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2019] [Revised: 07/22/2019] [Accepted: 07/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Abstract
Functional diversity (FD) has the potential to address many ecological questions, from impacts of global change on biodiversity to ecological restoration. There are several methods estimating the different components of FD. However, most of these methods can only be computed at limited spatial scales and cannot account for intraspecific trait variability (ITV), despite its significant contribution to FD. Trait probability density (TPD) functions (which explicitly account for ITV) reflect the probabilistic nature of niches. By doing so, the TPD approach reconciles existing methods for estimating FD within a unifying framework, allowing FD to be partitioned seamlessly across multiple scales (from individuals to species, and from local to global scales), and accounting for ITV. We present methods to estimate TPD functions at different spatial scales and probabilistic implementations of several FD concepts, including the primary components of FD (functional richness, evenness, and divergence), functional redundancy, functional rarity, and solutions to decompose beta FD into nested and unique components. The TPD framework has the potential to unify and expand analyses of functional ecology across scales, capturing the probabilistic and multidimensional nature of FD. The R package TPD (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=TPD) will allow users to achieve more comparative results across regions and case studies.
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- Carlos P Carmona
- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice, 37005, Czech Republic.,Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificacion (CSIC-UV-GV), Carretera Moncada-Náquera Km 4.5, Moncada, Valencia, 46113, Spain
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- Landcare Research, Private Bag 3127, Hamilton, 3240, New Zealand
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice, 37005, Czech Republic.,Institute of Entomology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice, 37005, Czech Republic
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Uchida K, Hiraiwa MK, Cadotte MW. Non‐random loss of phylogenetically distinct rare species degrades phylogenetic diversity in semi‐natural grasslands. J Appl Ecol 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Kei Uchida
- Graduate School of Environment and Information SciencesYokohama National University Yokohama Japan
- Graduate School of Human Development and EnvironmentKobe University Kobe Japan
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- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of Toronto‐Scarborough Toronto ON Canada
- Department of ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of Toronto Toronto ON Canada
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Martello F, de Bello F, Morini MSDC, Silva RR, Souza-Campana DRD, Ribeiro MC, Carmona CP. Homogenization and impoverishment of taxonomic and functional diversity of ants in Eucalyptus plantations. Sci Rep 2018; 8:3266. [PMID: 29459699 PMCID: PMC5818526 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20823-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2017] [Accepted: 12/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Despite its negative impacts on the environment and biodiversity, tree plantations can contribute to biodiversity conservation in fragmented landscapes, as they harbor many native species. In this study, we investigated the impact of Eucalyptus plantations on the taxonomic and functional diversity of ant communities, comparing ant communities sampled in managed and unmanaged (abandoned for 28 years) Eucalyptus plantations, and native Atlantic rain forests. Eucalyptus plantations, both managed and unmanaged, reduced the functional diversity and increased the similarity between ant communities leading to functional homogenization. While communities in managed plantations had the lowest values of both taxonomic and functional ant diversities, ant communities from unmanaged plantations had similar values of species richness, functional redundancy and Rao's Q compared to ant communities from forest patches (although functional richness was lower). In addition, communities in unmanaged Eucalyptus plantations were taxonomically and functionally more similar to communities located in managed plantations, indicating that Eucalyptus plantations have a severe long-term impact on ant communities. These results indicate that natural regeneration may mitigate the impact of Eucalyptus management, particularly regarding the functional structure of the community (α diversity), although it does not attenuate the effects of long term homogenization in community composition (β diversity).
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- Felipe Martello
- Departament of Environmental Science, Federal University of São Carlos, UFSCar, Rod., Washigton Luís Km 235, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
- Spatial Ecology and Conservation lab (LEEC), São Paulo State University, UNESP, Ecology Department, Avenida 24 A, 1515, Bela Vista, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Laboratório de Mirmecologia do Alto Tietê (LAMAT), Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes, UMC, Avenida Dr. Cândido Xavier de Almeida Souza, 200, Centro Cívico, Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Coordenação de Ciências da Terra e Ecologia, Av. Perimetral 1901, CEP 66077-830, Belém, PA, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Mirmecologia do Alto Tietê (LAMAT), Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes, UMC, Avenida Dr. Cândido Xavier de Almeida Souza, 200, Centro Cívico, Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Spatial Ecology and Conservation lab (LEEC), São Paulo State University, UNESP, Ecology Department, Avenida 24 A, 1515, Bela Vista, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, Tartu, 51005, Estonia
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Carmona CP, de Bello F, Sasaki T, Uchida K, Pärtel M. Towards a Common Toolbox for Rarity: A Response to Violle et al. Trends Ecol Evol 2017; 32:889-891. [PMID: 29033201 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2017.09.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2017] [Accepted: 09/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Carlos P Carmona
- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005, Tartu, Estonia.
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice, Czech Republic; Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Třeboň, Czech Republic
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- Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, 79-7 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, 79-7 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Lai 40, 51005, Tartu, Estonia
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Carmona CP, Guerrero I, Morales MB, Oñate JJ, Peco B. Assessing vulnerability of functional diversity to species loss: a case study in Mediterranean agricultural systems. Funct Ecol 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Carlos P. Carmona
- Department of Botany Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia Branišovská 31 České Budějovice Czech Republic
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- INEA School of Agricultural Engineering University of Valladolid, Biology 47008 Valladolid Spain
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- Terrestrial Ecology Group Department of Ecology Autonomous University of Madrid Madrid28049 Spain
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- Terrestrial Ecology Group Department of Ecology Autonomous University of Madrid Madrid28049 Spain
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- Terrestrial Ecology Group Department of Ecology Autonomous University of Madrid Madrid28049 Spain
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Bruno D, Gutiérrez-Cánovas C, Sánchez-Fernández D, Velasco J, Nilsson C. Impacts of environmental filters on functional redundancy in riparian vegetation. J Appl Ecol 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Daniel Bruno
- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología; Facultad de Biología; Universidad de Murcia; Campus de Excelencia Internacional Regional ‘Campus Mare Nostrum’ 30100 Murcia Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología; Facultad de Biología; Universidad de Murcia; Campus de Excelencia Internacional Regional ‘Campus Mare Nostrum’ 30100 Murcia Spain
- Catchment Research Group; School of Biosciences; Cardiff University; The Sir Martin Evans Building Museum Avenue Cardiff CF10 3AX UK
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- Departamento de Ecología de Humedales; Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC); Av. Américo Vespuccio 41092 Sevilla Spain
- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE, CSIC-UPF); Passeig marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49 08003 Barcelona Spain
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- Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología; Facultad de Biología; Universidad de Murcia; Campus de Excelencia Internacional Regional ‘Campus Mare Nostrum’ 30100 Murcia Spain
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Landscape Ecology Group; Umeå University; SE-901 87 Umeå Sweden
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Májeková M, Paal T, Plowman NS, Bryndová M, Kasari L, Norberg A, Weiss M, Bishop TR, Luke SH, Sam K, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Lepš J, Götzenberger L, de Bello F. Evaluating Functional Diversity: Missing Trait Data and the Importance of Species Abundance Structure and Data Transformation. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0149270. [PMID: 26881747 PMCID: PMC4755658 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2015] [Accepted: 01/19/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Functional diversity (FD) is an important component of biodiversity that quantifies the difference in functional traits between organisms. However, FD studies are often limited by the availability of trait data and FD indices are sensitive to data gaps. The distribution of species abundance and trait data, and its transformation, may further affect the accuracy of indices when data is incomplete. Using an existing approach, we simulated the effects of missing trait data by gradually removing data from a plant, an ant and a bird community dataset (12, 59, and 8 plots containing 62, 297 and 238 species respectively). We ranked plots by FD values calculated from full datasets and then from our increasingly incomplete datasets and compared the ranking between the original and virtually reduced datasets to assess the accuracy of FD indices when used on datasets with increasingly missing data. Finally, we tested the accuracy of FD indices with and without data transformation, and the effect of missing trait data per plot or per the whole pool of species. FD indices became less accurate as the amount of missing data increased, with the loss of accuracy depending on the index. But, where transformation improved the normality of the trait data, FD values from incomplete datasets were more accurate than before transformation. The distribution of data and its transformation are therefore as important as data completeness and can even mitigate the effect of missing data. Since the effect of missing trait values pool-wise or plot-wise depends on the data distribution, the method should be decided case by case. Data distribution and data transformation should be given more careful consideration when designing, analysing and interpreting FD studies, especially where trait data are missing. To this end, we provide the R package “traitor” to facilitate assessments of missing trait data.
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- Maria Májeková
- Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Soil Biology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- Area de Biodiversidad y Conservación, Departamento de Ciencias, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Experimentales y Tecnología, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, C/ Tulipán s/n, Móstoles, Spain
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- Institute of Botany, Biology Centre CAS, Třeboň, Czech Republic
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Gagic V, Bartomeus I, Jonsson T, Taylor A, Winqvist C, Fischer C, Slade EM, Steffan-Dewenter I, Emmerson M, Potts SG, Tscharntke T, Weisser W, Bommarco R. Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices. Proc Biol Sci 2015; 282:20142620. [PMID: 25567651 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2620] [Citation(s) in RCA: 251] [Impact Index Per Article: 27.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
Abstract
Drastic biodiversity declines have raised concerns about the deterioration of ecosystem functions and have motivated much recent research on the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem functioning. A functional trait framework has been proposed to improve the mechanistic understanding of this relationship, but this has rarely been tested for organisms other than plants. We analysed eight datasets, including five animal groups, to examine how well a trait-based approach, compared with a more traditional taxonomic approach, predicts seven ecosystem functions below- and above-ground. Trait-based indices consistently provided greater explanatory power than species richness or abundance. The frequency distributions of single or multiple traits in the community were the best predictors of ecosystem functioning. This implies that the ecosystem functions we investigated were underpinned by the combination of trait identities (i.e. single-trait indices) and trait complementarity (i.e. multi-trait indices) in the communities. Our study provides new insights into the general mechanisms that link biodiversity to ecosystem functioning in natural animal communities and suggests that the observed responses were due to the identity and dominance patterns of the trait composition rather than the number or abundance of species per se.
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- Vesna Gagic
- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala 75007, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala 75007, Sweden Departamento de Ecología Integrativa, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla 41092, Spain
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala 75007, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala 75007, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala 75007, Sweden
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- Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technische Universität München, Restoration Ecology, Emil-Ramann-Strasse 6, Freising 85354, Germany
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, Würzburg 97074, Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, Reading University, Reading RG6 6AR, UK
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- Department of Agroecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Center for Food and Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, Freising 85354, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala 75007, Sweden
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Stephens PA, Pettorelli N, Barlow J, Whittingham MJ, Cadotte MW. Management by proxy? The use of indices in applied ecology. J Appl Ecol 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Philip A. Stephens
- School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Durham University; Mountjoy Science Site Durham DH1 3LE UK
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- Zoological Society of London; Institute of Zoology; Regent's Park London NW1 4RY UK
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- Lancaster Environment Centre; Lancaster University; Lancaster LA1 4YQ UK
- Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi; Av. Magalhães Barata 376 Belém Pará CEP 66040-170 Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences; University of Toronto; Scarborough 1265 Military Trail Toronto ON M1C 1A4 Canada
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; University of Toronto; 25 Willcocks Street Toronto ON M5S 3B2 Canada
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Rosatti NB, Silva DM, Batalha MA. Loss of phylogenetic and functional originalities of woody cerrado species in simulated extinction scenarios. AUSTRAL ECOL 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/aec.12210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
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- Postgraduate Program in Environmental Science; Department of Environmental Science; Federal University of São Carlos; PO Box 676 13565-905 São Carlos Brazil
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Environmental and spatial controls of macroinvertebrate functional assemblages in seagrass ecosystems along the Pacific coast of northern Japan. Glob Ecol Conserv 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2014.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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