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Bird KIT, Uden DR, Allen CR. Functional connectivity varies across scales in a fragmented landscape. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0289706. [PMID: 37556438 PMCID: PMC10411743 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2023] [Accepted: 07/24/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023] Open
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Species of different sizes interact with the landscape differently because ecological structure varies with scale, as do species movement capabilities and habitat requirements. As such, landscape connectivity is dependent upon the scale at which an animal interacts with its environment. Analyses of landscape connectivity must incorporate ecologically relevant scales to address scale-specific differences. Many evaluations of landscape connectivity utilize incrementally increasing buffer distances or other arbitrary spatial delineations as scales of analysis. Instead, we used a mammalian body mass discontinuity analysis to objectively identify scales in the Central Platte River Valley (CPRV) of Nebraska, U.S.A. We implemented a graph-theoretic network analysis to evaluate the connectivity of two wetland land cover types in the CPRV, wet meadow and emergent marsh, at multiple scales represented by groupings of species with similar body mass. Body mass is allometric with multiple traits of species, including dispersal distances. The landscape was highly connected at larger scales but relatively unconnected at smaller scales. We identified a threshold at which the landscape becomes highly connected between 500 m and 6,500 m dispersal distances. The presence of a connectivity threshold suggests that species with dispersal distances close to the threshold may be most vulnerable to habitat loss or reconfiguration and management should account for the connectivity threshold. Furthermore, we propose that a multiscale approach to management will be necessary to ensure landscape connectivity for diverse species.
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- Kate I. T. Bird
- Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
- Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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Bradley M, Nagelkerken I, Baker R, Sheaves M. Context Dependence: A Conceptual Approach for Understanding the Habitat Relationships of Coastal Marine Fauna. Bioscience 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaa100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Coastal habitats, such as seagrasses, mangroves, rocky and coral reefs, salt marshes, and kelp forests, sustain many key fish and invertebrate populations around the globe. Our understanding of how animals use these broadly defined habitat types is typically derived from a few well-studied regions and is often extrapolated to similar habitats elsewhere. As a result, a working understanding of their habitat importance is often based on information derived from other regions and environmental contexts. Contexts such as tidal range, rainfall, and local geomorphology may fundamentally alter animal–habitat relationships, and there is growing evidence that broadly defined habitat types such as “mangroves” or “salt marsh” may show predictable spatial and temporal variation in habitat function in relation to these environmental drivers. In the present article, we develop a framework for systematically examining contextual predictability to define the geographic transferability of animal–habitat relationships, to guide ongoing research, conservation, and management actions in these systems.
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- Michael Bradley
- Marine Data Technology Hub, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
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- Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, within the School of Biological Sciences and The Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
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- Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, and senior marine scientist, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama
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- College of Science and Engineering and leads the Marine Data Technology Hub, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
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Regime change in a large-floodplain river ecosystem: patterns in body-size and functional biomass indicate a shift in fish communities. Biol Invasions 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-020-02330-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Hillaert J, Vandegehuchte ML, Hovestadt T, Bonte D. Habitat loss and fragmentation increase realized predator–prey body size ratios. Funct Ecol 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jasmijn Hillaert
- Department of Biology Terrestrial Ecology Unit Ghent University Ghent Belgium
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology Biocenter University of Würzburg Würzburg Germany
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- Department of Biology Terrestrial Ecology Unit Ghent University Ghent Belgium
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Sundstrom SM, Angeler DG, Barichievy C, Eason T, Garmestani A, Gunderson L, Knutson M, Nash KL, Spanbauer T, Stow C, Allen CR. The distribution and role of functional abundance in cross-scale resilience. Ecology 2018; 99:2421-2432. [PMID: 30175443 PMCID: PMC6792002 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2018] [Revised: 05/29/2018] [Accepted: 07/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The cross-scale resilience model suggests that system-level ecological resilience emerges from the distribution of species' functions within and across the spatial and temporal scales of a system. It has provided a quantitative method for calculating the resilience of a given system and so has been a valuable contribution to a largely qualitative field. As it is currently laid out, the model accounts for the spatial and temporal scales at which environmental resources and species are present and the functional roles species play but does not inform us about how much resource is present or how much function is provided. In short, it does not account for abundance in the distribution of species and their functional roles within and across the scales of a system. We detail the ways in which we would expect species' abundance to be relevant to the cross-scale resilience model based on the extensive abundance literature in ecology. We also put forward a series of testable hypotheses that would improve our ability to anticipate and quantify how resilience is generated, and how ecosystems will (or will not) buffer recent rapid global changes. This stream of research may provide an improved foundation for the quantitative evaluation of ecological resilience.
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- Shana M. Sundstrom
- School of Natural Resources, 103 Hardin Hall, 3310 Holdrege St., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
- Corresponding author:
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- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Box 7050, SE- 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Zoological Society of London. Regents Park, London NW1 4RY, UK
- Institute for Communities and Wildlife in Africa, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
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- Department of Environmental Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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- Centre for Marine Socioecology, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7000
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas-Austin, TX 78712
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- National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey - Nebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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Hillaert J, Hovestadt T, Vandegehuchte ML, Bonte D. Size-dependent movement explains why bigger is better in fragmented landscapes. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:10754-10767. [PMID: 30519404 PMCID: PMC6262741 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Revised: 07/05/2018] [Accepted: 08/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Body size is a fundamental trait known to allometrically scale with metabolic rate and therefore a key determinant of individual development, life history, and consequently fitness. In spatially structured environments, movement is an equally important driver of fitness. Because movement is tightly coupled with body size, we expect habitat fragmentation to induce a strong selection pressure on size variation across and within species. Changes in body size distributions are then, in turn, expected to alter food web dynamics. However, no consensus has been reached on how spatial isolation and resource growth affect consumer body size distributions. Our aim was to investigate how these two factors shape the body size distribution of consumers under scenarios of size-dependent and size-independent consumer movement by applying a mechanistic, individual-based resource-consumer model. We also assessed the consequences of altered body size distributions for important ecosystem traits such as resource abundance and consumer stability. Finally, we determined those factors that explain most variation in size distributions. We demonstrate that decreasing connectivity and resource growth select for communities (or populations) consisting of larger species (or individuals) due to strong selection for the ability to move over longer distances if the movement is size-dependent. When including size-dependent movement, intermediate levels of connectivity result in increases in local size diversity. Due to this elevated functional diversity, resource uptake is maximized at the metapopulation or metacommunity level. At these intermediate levels of connectivity, size-dependent movement explains most of the observed variation in size distributions. Interestingly, local and spatial stability of consumer biomass is lowest when isolation and resource growth are high. Finally, we highlight that size-dependent movement is of vital importance for the survival of populations or communities within highly fragmented landscapes. Our results demonstrate that considering size-dependent movement is essential to understand how habitat fragmentation and resource growth shape body size distributions-and the resulting metapopulation or metacommunity dynamics-of consumers.
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- Jasmijn Hillaert
- Department of BiologyTerrestrial Ecology UnitGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical BiologyBiocenterUniversity of WuerzburgWuerzburgGermany
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- Department of BiologyTerrestrial Ecology UnitGhent UniversityGhentBelgium
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Barichievy C, Angeler DG, Eason T, Garmestani AS, Nash KL, Stow CA, Sundstrom S, Allen CR. A method to detect discontinuities in census data. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:9614-9623. [PMID: 30386561 PMCID: PMC6202717 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2017] [Revised: 05/04/2018] [Accepted: 05/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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The distribution of pattern across scales has predictive power in the analysis of complex systems. Discontinuity approaches remain a fruitful avenue of research in the quest for quantitative measures of resilience because discontinuity analysis provides an objective means of identifying scales in complex systems and facilitates delineation of hierarchical patterns in processes, structure, and resources. However, current discontinuity methods have been considered too subjective, too complicated and opaque, or have become computationally obsolete; given the ubiquity of discontinuities in ecological and other complex systems, a simple and transparent method for detection is needed. In this study, we present a method to detect discontinuities in census data based on resampling of a neutral model and provide the R code used to run the analyses. This method has the potential for advancing basic and applied ecological research.
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- Chris Barichievy
- Zoological Society of LondonLondonUK
- Institute for Communities and Wildlife in AfricaUniversity of Cape TownCape TownSouth Africa
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- Department of Aquatic Sciences and AssessmentSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUppsalaSweden
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- U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyOffice of Research and DevelopmentNational Risk Management Research LaboratoryCincinnatiOhio
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- U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyOffice of Research and DevelopmentNational Risk Management Research LaboratoryCincinnatiOhio
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- Centre for Marine SocioecologyHobartTASAustralia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesUniversity of TasmaniaHobartTASAustralia
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- NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research LaboratoryAnn ArborMichigan
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- School of Natural ResourcesUniversity of NebraskaLincolnNebraska
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- U.S. Geological SurveyNebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research UnitUniversity of NebraskaLincolnNebraska
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Penone C, Kerbiriou C, Julien JF, Marmet J, Le Viol I. Body size information in large-scale acoustic bat databases. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5370. [PMID: 30155347 PMCID: PMC6110253 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background Citizen monitoring programs using acoustic data have been useful for detecting population and community patterns. However, they have rarely been used to study broad scale patterns of species traits. We assessed the potential of acoustic data to detect broad scale patterns in body size. We compared geographical patterns in body size with acoustic signals in the bat species Pipistrellus pipistrellus. Given the correlation between body size and acoustic characteristics, we expected to see similar results when analyzing the relationships of body size and acoustic signals with climatic variables. Methods We assessed body size using forearm length measurements of 1,359 bats, captured by mist nets in France. For acoustic analyses, we used an extensive dataset collected through the French citizen bat survey. We isolated each bat echolocation call (n = 4,783) and performed automatic measures of signals, including the frequency of the flattest part of the calls (characteristic frequency). We then examined the relationship between forearm length, characteristic frequencies, and two components resulting from principal component analysis for geographic (latitude, longitude) and climatic variables. Results Forearm length was positively correlated with higher precipitation, lower seasonality, and lower temperatures. Lower characteristic frequencies (i.e., larger body size) were mostly related to lower temperatures and northern latitudes. While conducted on different datasets, the two analyses provided congruent results. Discussion Acoustic data from citizen science programs can thus be useful for the detection of large-scale patterns in body size. This first analysis offers a new perspective for the use of large acoustic databases to explore biological patterns and to address both theoretical and applied questions.
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- Caterina Penone
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- CESCO UMR7204 MNHN-UPMC-CNRS-Sorbonne Université, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Paris, France.,Marine Station, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Concarneau, France
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- CESCO UMR7204 MNHN-UPMC-CNRS-Sorbonne Université, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- CESCO UMR7204 MNHN-UPMC-CNRS-Sorbonne Université, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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- Marine Station, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Concarneau, France.,CESCO UMR7204 MNHN-UPMC-CNRS-Sorbonne Université, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
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Hillaert J, Vandegehuchte ML, Hovestadt T, Bonte D. Information use during movement regulates how fragmentation and loss of habitat affect body size. Proc Biol Sci 2018; 285:20180953. [PMID: 30111596 PMCID: PMC6111160 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0953] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 07/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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An individual's body size is central to its behaviour and physiology, and tightly linked to its movement ability. The spatial arrangement of resources and a consumer's capacity to locate them are therefore expected to exert strong selection on consumer body size. We investigated the evolutionary impact of both the fragmentation and loss of habitat on consumer body size and its feedback effects on resource distribution, under varying levels of information used during habitat choice. We developed a mechanistic, individual-based, spatially explicit model, including several allometric rules for key consumer traits. Our model reveals that as resources become more fragmented and scarce, informed habitat choice selects for larger body sizes while random habitat choice promotes small sizes. Information use may thus be an overlooked explanation for the observed variation in body size responses to habitat fragmentation. Moreover, we find that resources can accumulate and aggregate if information about resource abundance is incomplete. Informed movement results in stable resource-consumer dynamics and controlled resources across space. However, habitat loss and fragmentation destabilize local dynamics and disturb resource suppression by the consumer. Considering information use during movement is thus critical to understand the eco-evolutionary dynamics underlying the functioning and structuring of consumer communities.
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- Jasmijn Hillaert
- Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Wuerzburg, Emil-Fischer-Strasse 32, 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
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Bouska KL. Discontinuities and functional resilience of large river fish assemblages. Ecosphere 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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- Kristen L. Bouska
- U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center; 2630 Fanta Reed Road La Crosse Wisconsin 54603 USA
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Spanbauer TL, Allen CR, Angeler DG, Eason T, Fritz SC, Garmestani AS, Nash KL, Stone JR, Stow CA, Sundstrom SM. Body size distributions signal a regime shift in a lake ecosystem. Proc Biol Sci 2017; 283:rspb.2016.0249. [PMID: 27335415 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2016] [Accepted: 05/24/2016] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Communities of organisms, from mammals to microorganisms, have discontinuous distributions of body size. This pattern of size structuring is a conservative trait of community organization and is a product of processes that occur at multiple spatial and temporal scales. In this study, we assessed whether body size patterns serve as an indicator of a threshold between alternative regimes. Over the past 7000 years, the biological communities of Foy Lake (Montana, USA) have undergone a major regime shift owing to climate change. We used a palaeoecological record of diatom communities to estimate diatom sizes, and then analysed the discontinuous distribution of organism sizes over time. We used Bayesian classification and regression tree models to determine that all time intervals exhibited aggregations of sizes separated by gaps in the distribution and found a significant change in diatom body size distributions approximately 150 years before the identified ecosystem regime shift. We suggest that discontinuity analysis is a useful addition to the suite of tools for the detection of early warning signals of regime shifts.
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- Trisha L Spanbauer
- National Research Council, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- US Geological Survey, Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 7050 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, US Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia Centre for Marine Socioecology, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7000, Australia
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Systems, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA
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- Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA
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- Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583, USA
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Maritz B, Kgaditse M, Alexander GJ. Snake body size frequency distributions are robust to the description of novel species. Ecosphere 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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- Bryan Maritz
- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology University of the Western Cape Private Bag X17 Bellville 7535 South Africa
- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences University of the Witwatersrand P.O. Wits 2050 Johannesburg South Africa
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- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences University of the Witwatersrand P.O. Wits 2050 Johannesburg South Africa
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- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences University of the Witwatersrand P.O. Wits 2050 Johannesburg South Africa
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Angeler DG, Allen CR, Barichievy C, Eason T, Garmestani AS, Graham NAJ, Granholm D, Gunderson LH, Knutson M, Nash KL, Nelson RJ, Nyström M, Spanbauer TL, Stow CA, Sundstrom SM. Management applications of discontinuity theory. J Appl Ecol 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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- David G. Angeler
- Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Box 7050 SE‐750 07 Uppsala Sweden
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- U.S. Geological Survey – Nebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit University of Nebraska Lincoln NE 68583 USA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Risk Management Research Laboratory Cincinnati OH 45268 USA
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Risk Management Research Laboratory Cincinnati OH 45268 USA
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies James Cook University Townsville Qld 4811 Australia
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- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Bloomington MN 55437‐1003 USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences Emory University Atlanta GA 30322 USA
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies James Cook University Townsville Qld 4811 Australia
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- Department of Biology‐Centre for Biomedical Research University of Victoria Victoria BC V8P 5C2 Canada
- Stantec Consulting Ltd. Saanichton BC V8M 2A5 Canada
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- Stockholm Resilience Centre Stockholm University SE‐106 91 Stockholm Sweden
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- Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and School of Natural Resources University of Nebraska Lincoln NE 68583 USA
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- National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Ann Arbor MI 48108 USA
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Angeler DG, Allen CR, Vila-Gispert A, Almeida D. Fitness in animals correlates with proximity to discontinuities in body mass distributions. ECOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2014.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Lin A, Jiang T, Kanwal JS, Lu G, Luo J, Wei X, Luo B, Feng J. Geographical variation in echolocation vocalizations of the Himalayan leaf-nosed bat: contribution of morphological variation and cultural drift. OIKOS 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/oik.01604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Aiqing Lin
- Jilin Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal Univ.; 2555 Jingyue Street Changchun 130117 China
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of Education Ministry, Inst. of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal Univ.; 5268 Renmin Street Changchun 130024 China
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- Jilin Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal Univ.; 2555 Jingyue Street Changchun 130117 China
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of Education Ministry, Inst. of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal Univ.; 5268 Renmin Street Changchun 130024 China
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- Dept of Neurology; Georgetown Univ. Medical Center; Washington DC USA
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- Jilin Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal Univ.; 2555 Jingyue Street Changchun 130117 China
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of Education Ministry, Inst. of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal Univ.; 5268 Renmin Street Changchun 130024 China
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- Jilin Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal Univ.; 2555 Jingyue Street Changchun 130117 China
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of Education Ministry, Inst. of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal Univ.; 5268 Renmin Street Changchun 130024 China
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- Jilin Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal Univ.; 2555 Jingyue Street Changchun 130117 China
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of Education Ministry, Inst. of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal Univ.; 5268 Renmin Street Changchun 130024 China
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- Jilin Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal Univ.; 2555 Jingyue Street Changchun 130117 China
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of Education Ministry, Inst. of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal Univ.; 5268 Renmin Street Changchun 130024 China
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- Jilin Key Laboratory of Animal Resource Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Normal Univ.; 2555 Jingyue Street Changchun 130117 China
- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of Education Ministry, Inst. of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal Univ.; 5268 Renmin Street Changchun 130024 China
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