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Eldridge DJ, Ding J, Dorrough J, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Sala O, Gross N, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Mallen-Cooper M, Saiz H, Asensio S, Ochoa V, Gozalo B, Guirado E, García-Gómez M, Valencia E, Martínez-Valderrama J, Plaza C, Abedi M, Ahmadian N, Ahumada RJ, Alcántara JM, Amghar F, Azevedo L, Ben Salem F, Berdugo M, Blaum N, Boldgiv B, Bowker M, Bran D, Bu C, Canessa R, Castillo-Monroy AP, Castro I, Castro-Quezada P, Cesarz S, Chibani R, Conceição AA, Darrouzet-Nardi A, Davila YC, Deák B, Díaz-Martínez P, Donoso DA, Dougill AD, Durán J, Eisenhauer N, Ejtehadi H, Espinosa CI, Fajardo A, Farzam M, Foronda A, Franzese J, Fraser LH, Gaitán J, Geissler K, Gonzalez SL, Gusman-Montalvan E, Hernández RM, Hölzel N, Hughes FM, Jadan O, Jentsch A, Ju M, Kaseke KF, Köbel M, Lehmann A, Liancourt P, Linstädter A, Louw MA, Ma Q, Mabaso M, Maggs-Kölling G, Makhalanyane TP, Issa OM, Marais E, McClaran M, Mendoza B, Mokoka V, Mora JP, Moreno G, Munson S, Nunes A, Oliva G, Oñatibia GR, Osborne B, Peter G, Pierre M, Pueyo Y, Emiliano Quiroga R, Reed S, Rey A, Rey P, Gómez VMR, Rolo V, Rillig MC, le Roux PC, Ruppert JC, Salah A, Sebei PJ, Sharkhuu A, Stavi I, Stephens C, Teixido AL, Thomas AD, Tielbörger K, Robles ST, Travers S, Valkó O, van den Brink L, Velbert F, von Heßberg A, Wamiti W, Wang D, Wang L, Wardle GM, Yahdjian L, Zaady E, Zhang Y, Zhou X, Maestre FT. Author Correction: Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands. Nat Plants 2024:10.1038/s41477-024-01708-w. [PMID: 38689079 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01708-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- David J Eldridge
- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
| | - Josh Dorrough
- Department of Planning and Environment, Merimbula, New South Wales, Australia
- Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
| | - Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
- Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Seville, Spain
| | - Osvaldo Sala
- Schools of Life Sciences, School of Sustainability, and Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
| | - Nicolas Gross
- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche Ecosystème Prairial, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
| | - Hugo Saiz
- Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y Medio Natural, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain
| | - Sergio Asensio
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
| | - Victoria Ochoa
- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
| | - Beatriz Gozalo
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
| | - Emilio Guirado
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
| | - Miguel García-Gómez
- Departamento de Ingeniería y Morfología del Terreno, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
| | - Enrique Valencia
- Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
- Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA), CSIC, Campus UAL, Almería, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Iran
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Iran
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Valle Viejo, Argentina
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- Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra de Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
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- Laboratoire Biodiversité, Biotechnologie, Environnement et Développement Durable (Biodev), Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdès, Boumerdès, Algeria
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- Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
| | - Farah Ben Salem
- Laboratory of Eremology and Combating Desertification (LR16IRA01), IRA, Institut des Régions Arides Medenine, Medenine, Tunisia
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- Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China
- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, China
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Grupo de Investigación en Ecología Evolutiva en los Trópicos-EETROP- Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Universidad Simón Rodríguez, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Grupo de Ecología Forestal y Agroecosistemas, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Agronomía, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Laboratory of Eremology and Combating Desertification (LR16IRA01), IRA, Institut des Régions Arides Medenine, Medenine, Tunisia
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
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- Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- HUN-REN 'Lendület' Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación en Ecología Evolutiva en los Trópicos-EETROP- Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
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- Misión Biológica de Galicia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Pontevedra, Spain
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Department of Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Veterinary Faculty, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Investigaciones de Ecología en Ambientes Antropizados, Laboratorio Ecotono, INIBIOMA (Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET), Bariloche, Argentina
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Universidad Nacional de Luján-CONICET, Luján, Argentina
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (CONICET), Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina
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- Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Universidad Simón Rodríguez, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
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- Grupo de Ecología Forestal y Agroecosistemas, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Agronomía, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, China
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- Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris, SU/IRD/CNRS/INRAE/UPEC, Bondy, France
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- Gobabeb - Namib Research Institute, Walvis Bay, Namibia
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- School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain
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- Risk and Vulnerability Science Centre, University of Limpopo, Mankweng, South Africa
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- INDEHESA, Forestry School, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University, Moab, UT, USA
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), CONICET, Viedma, Argentina
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- Normandie Universite, Unirouen, Inrae, Ecodiv, Rouen, France
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- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE, CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Valle Viejo, Argentina
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, USA
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra de Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
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- INDEHESA, Forestry School, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Mara Research Station, Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Makhado, South Africa
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- The Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Yotvata, Israel
- Eilat Campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat, Israel
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), CONICET, Viedma, Argentina
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- HUN-REN 'Lendület' Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI), Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Institute of Plant Sciences, Gilat Research Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Kaye College of Education, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Eldridge DJ, Ding J, Dorrough J, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Sala O, Gross N, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Mallen-Cooper M, Saiz H, Asensio S, Ochoa V, Gozalo B, Guirado E, García-Gómez M, Valencia E, Martínez-Valderrama J, Plaza C, Abedi M, Ahmadian N, Ahumada RJ, Alcántara JM, Amghar F, Azevedo L, Ben Salem F, Berdugo M, Blaum N, Boldgiv B, Bowker M, Bran D, Bu C, Canessa R, Castillo-Monroy AP, Castro I, Castro-Quezada P, Cesarz S, Chibani R, Conceição AA, Darrouzet-Nardi A, Davila YC, Deák B, Díaz-Martínez P, Donoso DA, Dougill AD, Durán J, Eisenhauer N, Ejtehadi H, Espinosa CI, Fajardo A, Farzam M, Foronda A, Franzese J, Fraser LH, Gaitán J, Geissler K, Gonzalez SL, Gusman-Montalvan E, Hernández RM, Hölzel N, Hughes FM, Jadan O, Jentsch A, Ju M, Kaseke KF, Köbel M, Lehmann A, Liancourt P, Linstädter A, Louw MA, Ma Q, Mabaso M, Maggs-Kölling G, Makhalanyane TP, Issa OM, Marais E, McClaran M, Mendoza B, Mokoka V, Mora JP, Moreno G, Munson S, Nunes A, Oliva G, Oñatibia GR, Osborne B, Peter G, Pierre M, Pueyo Y, Emiliano Quiroga R, Reed S, Rey A, Rey P, Gómez VMR, Rolo V, Rillig MC, le Roux PC, Ruppert JC, Salah A, Sebei PJ, Sharkhuu A, Stavi I, Stephens C, Teixido AL, Thomas AD, Tielbörger K, Robles ST, Travers S, Valkó O, van den Brink L, Velbert F, von Heßberg A, Wamiti W, Wang D, Wang L, Wardle GM, Yahdjian L, Zaady E, Zhang Y, Zhou X, Maestre FT. Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands. Nat Plants 2024:10.1038/s41477-024-01670-7. [PMID: 38609675 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-024-01670-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/14/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
Abstract
Perennial plants create productive and biodiverse hotspots, known as fertile islands, beneath their canopies. These hotspots largely determine the structure and functioning of drylands worldwide. Despite their ubiquity, the factors controlling fertile islands under conditions of contrasting grazing by livestock, the most prevalent land use in drylands, remain virtually unknown. Here we evaluated the relative importance of grazing pressure and herbivore type, climate and plant functional traits on 24 soil physical and chemical attributes that represent proxies of key ecosystem services related to decomposition, soil fertility, and soil and water conservation. To do this, we conducted a standardized global survey of 288 plots at 88 sites in 25 countries worldwide. We show that aridity and plant traits are the major factors associated with the magnitude of plant effects on fertile islands in grazed drylands worldwide. Grazing pressure had little influence on the capacity of plants to support fertile islands. Taller and wider shrubs and grasses supported stronger island effects. Stable and functional soils tended to be linked to species-rich sites with taller plants. Together, our findings dispel the notion that grazing pressure or herbivore type are linked to the formation or intensification of fertile islands in drylands. Rather, our study suggests that changes in aridity, and processes that alter island identity and therefore plant traits, will have marked effects on how perennial plants support and maintain the functioning of drylands in a more arid and grazed world.
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Affiliation(s)
- David J Eldridge
- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
| | - Josh Dorrough
- Department of Planning and Environment, Merimbula, New South Wales, Australia
- Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
| | - Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
- Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Seville, Spain
| | - Osvaldo Sala
- Schools of Life Sciences, School of Sustainability, and Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
| | - Nicolas Gross
- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche Ecosystème Prairial, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden
| | - Hugo Saiz
- Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y Medio Natural, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain
| | - Sergio Asensio
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
| | - Victoria Ochoa
- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
| | - Beatriz Gozalo
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
| | - Emilio Guirado
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
| | - Miguel García-Gómez
- Departamento de Ingeniería y Morfología del Terreno, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
| | - Enrique Valencia
- Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
| | - Jaime Martínez-Valderrama
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio 'Ramón Margalef', Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
- Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (EEZA), CSIC, Campus UAL, Almería, Spain
| | - César Plaza
- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
| | - Mehdi Abedi
- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Iran
| | - Negar Ahmadian
- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Iran
| | - Rodrigo J Ahumada
- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Valle Viejo, Argentina
| | - Julio M Alcántara
- Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra de Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
| | - Fateh Amghar
- Laboratoire Biodiversité, Biotechnologie, Environnement et Développement Durable (Biodev), Université M'hamed Bougara de Boumerdès, Boumerdès, Algeria
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- Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Eremology and Combating Desertification (LR16IRA01), IRA, Institut des Régions Arides Medenine, Medenine, Tunisia
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- Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China
- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, China
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Grupo de Investigación en Ecología Evolutiva en los Trópicos-EETROP- Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Universidad Simón Rodríguez, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Grupo de Ecología Forestal y Agroecosistemas, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Agronomía, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Laboratory of Eremology and Combating Desertification (LR16IRA01), IRA, Institut des Régions Arides Medenine, Medenine, Tunisia
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
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- Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- HUN-REN 'Lendület' Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo de Investigación en Ecología Evolutiva en los Trópicos-EETROP- Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
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- Misión Biológica de Galicia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Pontevedra, Spain
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Department of Range and Watershed Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Veterinary Faculty, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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- Investigaciones de Ecología en Ambientes Antropizados, Laboratorio Ecotono, INIBIOMA (Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET), Bariloche, Argentina
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Universidad Nacional de Luján-CONICET, Luján, Argentina
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- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (CONICET), Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina
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- Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Universidad Simón Rodríguez, Caracas, Venezuela
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Biológicas, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, Brazil
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- Grupo de Ecología Forestal y Agroecosistemas, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Agronomía, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, China
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- Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris, SU/IRD/CNRS/INRAE/UPEC, Bondy, France
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- Gobabeb - Namib Research Institute, Walvis Bay, Namibia
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- School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain
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- Risk and Vulnerability Science Centre, University of Limpopo, Mankweng, South Africa
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- INDEHESA, Forestry School, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- cE3c - Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University, Moab, UT, USA
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), CONICET, Viedma, Argentina
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- Normandie Universite, Unirouen, Inrae, Ecodiv, Rouen, France
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- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE, CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Valle Viejo, Argentina
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, USA
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra de Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
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- INDEHESA, Forestry School, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Mara Research Station, Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Makhado, South Africa
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- The Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Yotvata, Israel
- Eilat Campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Eilat, Israel
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Departmento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Geography and Earth Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, Centro de Estudios Ambientales desde la NorPatagonia (CEANPa), CONICET, Viedma, Argentina
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- HUN-REN 'Lendület' Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Disturbance Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI), Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Institute of Plant Sciences, Gilat Research Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Kaye College of Education, Be'er Sheva, Israel
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Schön JE, Tiede Y, Becker M, Donoso DA, Homeier J, Limberger O, Bendix J, Farwig N, Brandl R. Effects of leaf traits of tropical trees on the abundance and body mass of herbivorous arthropod communities. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0288276. [PMID: 37934765 PMCID: PMC10629635 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/24/2023] [Indexed: 11/09/2023] Open
Abstract
In tropical forests, herbivorous arthropods remove between 7% up to 48% of leaf area, which has forced plants to evolve defense strategies. These strategies influence the palatability of leaves. Palatability, which reflects a syndrome of leaf traits, in turn influences both the abundance and the mean body mass not only of particular arthropod taxa but also of the total communities. In this study, we tested two hypotheses: (H1) The abundance of two important chewer guilds ('leaf chewers' and 'rostrum chewers'), dominant components of arthropod communities, is positively related to the palatability of host trees. (H2) Lower palatability leads to an increased mean body mass of chewers (Jarman-Bell principle). Arthropods were collected by fogging the canopies of 90 tropical trees representing 31 species in three plots at 1000 m and three at 2000 m a.s.l. Palatability was assessed by measuring several 'leaf traits' of each host tree and by conducting a feeding trial with the generalist herbivore Gryllus assimilis (Orthoptera, Gryllidae). Leaf traits provided partial support for H1, as abundance of leaf chewers but not of rostrum chewers was positively affected by the experimentally estimated palatability. There was no support for H2 as neither leaf traits nor experimentally estimated palatability affected the mean body mass of leaf chewers. The mean body mass of rostrum chewers was positively related to palatability. Thus, leaf traits and experimentally estimated palatability influenced the abundance and mean body mass of chewing arthropods on the community level. However, the data were not consistent with the Jarman-Bell principle. Overall, our results suggest that the palatability of leaves is not among the dominant factors influencing abundance and mean body mass of the community of chewing arthropod herbivores. If other factors, such as the microclimate, predation or further (a-)biotic interactions are more important has to be analyzed in refined studies.
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- Jana E. Schön
- Department of Biology, Animal Ecology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Hesse, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Conservation Ecology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Hesse, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Conservation Ecology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Hesse, Germany
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador
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- Faculty of Resource Management, HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
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- Department of Geography, Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Hesse, Germany
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- Department of Geography, Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Hesse, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Conservation Ecology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Hesse, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Animal Ecology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Hesse, Germany
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Müller J, Mitesser O, Schaefer HM, Seibold S, Busse A, Kriegel P, Rabl D, Gelis R, Arteaga A, Freile J, Leite GA, de Melo TN, LeBien J, Campos-Cerqueira M, Blüthgen N, Tremlett CJ, Böttger D, Feldhaar H, Grella N, Falconí-López A, Donoso DA, Moriniere J, Buřivalová Z. Author Correction: Soundscapes and deep learning enable tracking biodiversity recovery in tropical forests. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7014. [PMID: 37919264 PMCID: PMC10622551 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42950-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2023] Open
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- Jörg Müller
- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany.
- Bavarian Forest National Park, Freyungerstr. 2, 94481, Grafenau, Germany.
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- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany
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- Fundación Jocotoco, Valladolid N24-414 y Luis Cordero, Quito, Ecuador
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- Technical University of Munich, School of Life Sciences, Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Research Group, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354, Freising, Germany
- Berchtesgaden National Park, Doktorberg 6, Berchtesgaden, 83471, Germany
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- Saxon-Switzerland National Park, An der Elbe 4, 01814, Bad Schandau, Germany
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- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany
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- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany
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- Yanayacu Research Center, Cosanga, Ecuador
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- Pasaje El Moro E4-216 y Norberto Salazar, EC 170902, Tumbaco, DMQ, Ecuador
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- Rainforest Connection, Science Department, 440 Cobia Drive, Suite 1902, Katy, TX, 77494, USA
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- Rainforest Connection, Science Department, 440 Cobia Drive, Suite 1902, Katy, TX, 77494, USA
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- Ecological Networks Lab, Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstr. 3, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Ecological Networks Lab, Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstr. 3, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Phyletisches Museum, Institute for Zoology and Evolutionary Research, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Animal Population Ecology, Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Animal Population Ecology, Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany
- Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud-BIOMAS-Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
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- Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud-BIOMAS-Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Av. Ladrón de Guevara E11-253, CP 17-01-2759, Quito, Ecuador
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- AIM - Advanced Identification Methods GmbH, Niemeyerstr. 1, 04179, Leipzig, Germany
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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Müller J, Mitesser O, Schaefer HM, Seibold S, Busse A, Kriegel P, Rabl D, Gelis R, Arteaga A, Freile J, Leite GA, de Melo TN, LeBien J, Campos-Cerqueira M, Blüthgen N, Tremlett CJ, Böttger D, Feldhaar H, Grella N, Falconí-López A, Donoso DA, Moriniere J, Buřivalová Z. Soundscapes and deep learning enable tracking biodiversity recovery in tropical forests. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6191. [PMID: 37848442 PMCID: PMC10582010 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41693-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 10/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Tropical forest recovery is fundamental to addressing the intertwined climate and biodiversity loss crises. While regenerating trees sequester carbon relatively quickly, the pace of biodiversity recovery remains contentious. Here, we use bioacoustics and metabarcoding to measure forest recovery post-agriculture in a global biodiversity hotspot in Ecuador. We show that the community composition, and not species richness, of vocalizing vertebrates identified by experts reflects the restoration gradient. Two automated measures - an acoustic index model and a bird community composition derived from an independently developed Convolutional Neural Network - correlated well with restoration (adj-R² = 0.62 and 0.69, respectively). Importantly, both measures reflected composition of non-vocalizing nocturnal insects identified via metabarcoding. We show that such automated monitoring tools, based on new technologies, can effectively monitor the success of forest recovery, using robust and reproducible data.
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- Jörg Müller
- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany.
- Bavarian Forest National Park, Freyungerstr. 2, 94481, Grafenau, Germany.
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- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany
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- Fundación Jocotoco, Valladolid N24-414 y Luis Cordero, Quito, Ecuador
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- Technical University of Munich, School of Life Sciences, Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Research Group, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354, Freising, Germany
- Berchtesgaden National Park, Doktorberg 6, Berchtesgaden, 83471, Germany
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- Saxon-Switzerland National Park, An der Elbe 4, 01814, Bad Schandau, Germany
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- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany
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- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany
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- Yanayacu Research Center, Cosanga, Ecuador
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- Pasaje El Moro E4-216 y Norberto Salazar, EC 170902, Tumbaco, DMQ, Ecuador
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- Rainforest Connection, Science Department, 440 Cobia Drive, Suite 1902, Katy, TX, 77494, USA
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- Rainforest Connection, Science Department, 440 Cobia Drive, Suite 1902, Katy, TX, 77494, USA
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- Ecological Networks Lab, Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstr. 3, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Ecological Networks Lab, Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstr. 3, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Phyletisches Museum, Institute for Zoology and Evolutionary Research, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Animal Population Ecology, Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Animal Population Ecology, Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, 95440, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Field Station Fabrikschleichach, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Glashüttenstr. 5, 96181, Rauhenebrach, Germany
- Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud-BIOMAS-Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
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- Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud-BIOMAS-Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador
- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Av. Ladrón de Guevara E11-253, CP 17-01-2759, Quito, Ecuador
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- AIM - Advanced Identification Methods GmbH, Niemeyerstr. 1, 04179, Leipzig, Germany
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology and The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA
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Salazar-Buenaño F, Guevara D, Barragán A, Carvajal V, Donoso DA. Catalog of the invertebrate type specimens hosted at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and Escuela Politécnica Nacional natural history collections. Zookeys 2023; 1169:15-45. [PMID: 37457653 PMCID: PMC10339112 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1169.102030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 04/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023] Open
Abstract
This work updates the invertebrate type specimen catalog published by Donoso et al. (2009). The catalog is increased by 2281 type specimens (from 454 species or subspecies) to a total of 4180 type specimens (from 770 species or subspecies) hosted at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador and Escuela Politécnica Nacional natural history collections. The new material adds 307 holotypes, 1910 paratypes, and 64 allotypes. It provides original information from four phyla (Arthropoda, Mollusca, Nemata, and Platyhelminthes), eight classes, 21 orders, 73 families, and 156 genera. This updated catalog includes a map showing the type localities in the country, a list of the 71 new type specimens (from 23 species or subspecies) from other countries hosted at both museums, corrections to the previous catalog published by Donoso et al. (2009), and label information from each new specimen.
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- Fernanda Salazar-Buenaño
- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, EcuadorPontificia Universidad Católica del EcuadorQuitoEcuador
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, EcuadorPontificia Universidad Católica del EcuadorQuitoEcuador
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- Museo de Zoología, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, EcuadorPontificia Universidad Católica del EcuadorQuitoEcuador
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- Museo de Historia Natural Gustavo Orcés, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, EcuadorMuseo de Historia Natural Gustavo Orcés, Escuela Politécnica NacionalQuitoEcuador
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- Museo de Historia Natural Gustavo Orcés, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, EcuadorMuseo de Historia Natural Gustavo Orcés, Escuela Politécnica NacionalQuitoEcuador
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Hoenle PO, Staab M, Donoso DA, Argoti A, Blüthgen N. Stratification and recovery time jointly shape ant functional reassembly in a neotropical forest. J Anim Ecol 2023. [PMID: 36748273 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13896] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2022] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
Abstract
Microhabitat differentiation of species communities such as vertical stratification in tropical forests contributes to species coexistence and thus biodiversity. However, little is known about how the extent of stratification changes during forest recovery and influences community reassembly. Environmental filtering determines community reassembly in time (succession) and in space (stratification), hence functional and phylogenetic composition of species communities are highly dynamic. It is poorly understood if and how these two concurrent filters-forest recovery and stratification-interact. In a tropical forest chronosequence in Ecuador spanning 34 years of natural recovery, we investigated the recovery trajectory of ant communities in three overlapping strata (ground, leaf litter, lower tree trunk) by quantifying 13 traits, as well as the functional and phylogenetic diversity of the ants. We expected that functional and phylogenetic diversity would increase with recovery time and that each ant community within each stratum would show a distinct functional reassembly. We predicted that traits related to ant diet would show divergent trajectories reflecting an increase in niche differentiation with recovery time. On the other hand, traits related to the abiotic environment were predicted to show convergent trajectories due to a more similar microclimate across strata with increasing recovery age. Most of the functional traits and the phylogenetic diversity of the ants were clearly stratified, confirming previous findings. However, neither functional nor phylogenetic diversity increased with recovery time. Community-weighted trait means had complex relationships to recovery time and the majority were shaped by a statistical interaction between recovery time and stratum, confirming our expectations. However, most trait trajectories converged among strata with increasing recovery time regardless of whether they were related to ant diet or environmental conditions. We confirm the hypothesized interaction among environmental filters during the functional reassembly in tropical forests. Communities in individual strata respond differently to recovery, and possible filter mechanisms likely arise from both abiotic (e.g. microclimate) and biotic (e.g. diet) conditions. Since vertical stratification is prevalent across animal and plant taxa, our results highlight the importance of stratum-specific analysis in dynamic ecosystems and may generalize beyond ants.
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- Philipp O Hoenle
- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.,Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador.,Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador
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- Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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Maestre FT, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Eldridge DJ, Saiz H, Berdugo M, Gozalo B, Ochoa V, Guirado E, García-Gómez M, Valencia E, Gaitán JJ, Asensio S, Mendoza BJ, Plaza C, Díaz-Martínez P, Rey A, Hu HW, He JZ, Wang JT, Lehmann A, Rillig MC, Cesarz S, Eisenhauer N, Martínez-Valderrama J, Moreno-Jiménez E, Sala O, Abedi M, Ahmadian N, Alados CL, Aramayo V, Amghar F, Arredondo T, Ahumada RJ, Bahalkeh K, Ben Salem F, Blaum N, Boldgiv B, Bowker MA, Bran D, Bu C, Canessa R, Castillo-Monroy AP, Castro H, Castro I, Castro-Quezada P, Chibani R, Conceição AA, Currier CM, Darrouzet-Nardi A, Deák B, Donoso DA, Dougill AJ, Durán J, Erdenetsetseg B, Espinosa CI, Fajardo A, Farzam M, Ferrante D, Frank ASK, Fraser LH, Gherardi LA, Greenville AC, Guerra CA, Gusmán-Montalvan E, Hernández-Hernández RM, Hölzel N, Huber-Sannwald E, Hughes FM, Jadán-Maza O, Jeltsch F, Jentsch A, Kaseke KF, Köbel M, Koopman JE, Leder CV, Linstädter A, le Roux PC, Li X, Liancourt P, Liu J, Louw MA, Maggs-Kölling G, Makhalanyane TP, Issa OM, Manzaneda AJ, Marais E, Mora JP, Moreno G, Munson SM, Nunes A, Oliva G, Oñatibia GR, Peter G, Pivari MOD, Pueyo Y, Quiroga RE, Rahmanian S, Reed SC, Rey PJ, Richard B, Rodríguez A, Rolo V, Rubalcaba JG, Ruppert JC, Salah A, Schuchardt MA, Spann S, Stavi I, Stephens CRA, Swemmer AM, Teixido AL, Thomas AD, Throop HL, Tielbörger K, Travers S, Val J, Valkó O, van den Brink L, Ayuso SV, Velbert F, Wamiti W, Wang D, Wang L, Wardle GM, Yahdjian L, Zaady E, Zhang Y, Zhou X, Singh BK, Gross N. Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. Science 2022; 378:915-920. [DOI: 10.1126/science.abq4062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Grazing represents the most extensive use of land worldwide. Yet its impacts on ecosystem services remain uncertain because pervasive interactions between grazing pressure, climate, soil properties, and biodiversity may occur but have never been addressed simultaneously. Using a standardized survey at 98 sites across six continents, we show that interactions between grazing pressure, climate, soil, and biodiversity are critical to explain the delivery of fundamental ecosystem services across drylands worldwide. Increasing grazing pressure reduced ecosystem service delivery in warmer and species-poor drylands, whereas positive effects of grazing were observed in colder and species-rich areas. Considering interactions between grazing and local abiotic and biotic factors is key for understanding the fate of dryland ecosystems under climate change and increasing human pressure.
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- Fernando T. Maestre
- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef,” Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
- Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
- Unidad Asociada CSIC-UPO (BioFun), Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Planning and Environment, c/o Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Departamento de Ciencias Agrarias y Medio Natural, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institut de Biología Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
- Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef,” Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef,” Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef,” Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Departamento de Ingeniería y Morfología del Terreno, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain
- Departamento de Biodiversidad, Ecología y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Instituto de Suelos-CNIA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de Luján, Departamento de Tecnología, Luján, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef,” Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Departamento de Biología y Geología, Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain
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- Key Laboratory for Humid Subtropical Eco-geographical Processes of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China
- Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Key Laboratory for Humid Subtropical Eco-geographical Processes of the Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Science, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, China
- Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Global Centre for Land-Based Innovation, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Biology, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Biology, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Leipzig University, Institute of Biology, Leipzig, Germany
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Leipzig University, Institute of Biology, Leipzig, Germany
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio “Ramón Margalef,” Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Department of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Mazandaran Province, Iran
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Mazandaran Province, Iran
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Laboratoire de Recherche: Biodiversité, Biotechnologie, Environnement et Développement Durable (BioDev), Faculté des Sciences, Université M’hamed Bougara de Boumerdès, Boumerdès, Algérie
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- Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, A.C., San Luis Potosí, Mexico
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina
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- Department of Range Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Mazandaran Province, Iran
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- Laboratory of Range Ecology, Institut des Régions Arides (IRA), Médenine, Tunisia
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- University of Potsdam, Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology, Potsdam, Germany
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche, Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- Ecological Plant Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
- Plant Ecology Group, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez (UNESR), Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Centro de Estudios de Agroecología Tropical (CEDAT), Miranda, Venezuela
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- Universidad de Cuenca, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Ingeniería Agronómica, Grupo de Agroforestería, Manejo y Conservación del paisaje, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- Laboratory of Range Ecology, Institut des Régions Arides (IRA), Médenine, Tunisia
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- Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Bahia, Brazil
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- Global Drylands Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
- Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, UK
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- Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Misión Biolóxica de Galicia, CSIC, Pontevedra, Spain
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- Laboratory of Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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- Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Department of Range and Watershed Management, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria EEA Santa Cruz, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
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- School of Agriculture, Environmental and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
- Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
- Institute of Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Universidad Nacional Experimental Simón Rodríguez (UNESR), Instituto de Estudios Científicos y Tecnológicos (IDECYT), Centro de Estudios de Agroecología Tropical (CEDAT), Miranda, Venezuela
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS), Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Bahia, Brazil
- Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica (INMA), Espírito Santo, Brazil
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- Universidad de Cuenca, Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Carrera de Ingeniería Agronómica, Grupo de Agroforestería, Manejo y Conservación del paisaje, Cuenca, Ecuador
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- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
- University of Potsdam, Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Disturbance Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Earth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Microbiome@UP, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, CEANPa, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Biodiversity Research/Systematic Botany Group, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
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- Plant Ecology Group, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, Pruhonice, Czech Republic
- Botany Department, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Microbiome@UP, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Institut d’Écologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris (iEES-Paris), Sorbonne Université, IRD, CNRS, INRAE, Université Paris Est Creteil, Université de Paris, Centre IRD de France Nord, Bondy, France
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- Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra en Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
- Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
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- Gobabeb-Namib Research Institute, Walvis Bay, Namibia
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Forestry School, INDEHESA, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria EEA Santa Cruz, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina
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- Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, Sede Atlántica, CEANPa, Río Negro, Argentina
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- Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología (IPE, CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain
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- Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina
- Cátedra de Manejo de Pastizales Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina
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- Department of Range and Watershed Management, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
- Department of Forest Engineering, Forest Management Planning and Terrestrial Measurements, Faculty of Silviculture and Forest Engineering, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania
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- US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, UT, USA
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- Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación del Sistema Tierra en Andalucía, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
- Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
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- Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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- Forestry School, INDEHESA, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain
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- Plant Ecology Group, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Disturbance Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Yotvata, Israel
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- Department of Natural Resource Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Phalaborwa, Kruger National Park, South Africa
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- Departamento de Botânica e Ecologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso, Brazil
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- Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK
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- School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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- Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Science Division, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, New South Wales Government, Buronga, New South Wales, Australia
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- Lendület Seed Ecology Research Group, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Centre for Ecological Research, Vácrátót, Hungary
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- Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Zoology Department, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Key Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology of the Ministry of Education, Jilin Songnen Grassland Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Cátedra de Ecología, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA-CONICET), Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Natural Resources, Agricultural Research Organization, Institute of Plant Sciences, Gilat Research Center, Mobile Post Negev, Israel
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China
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- Global Centre for Land-Based Innovation, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, Unité Mixte de Recherche Ecosystème Prairial, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Kass JM, Guénard B, Dudley KL, Jenkins CN, Azuma F, Fisher BL, Parr CL, Gibb H, Longino JT, Ward PS, Chao A, Lubertazzi D, Weiser M, Jetz W, Guralnick R, Blatrix R, Lauriers JD, Donoso DA, Georgiadis C, Gomez K, Hawkes PG, Johnson RA, Lattke JE, MacGown JA, Mackay W, Robson S, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR, Economo EP. The global distribution of known and undiscovered ant biodiversity. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabp9908. [PMID: 35921404 PMCID: PMC9348798 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abp9908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2022] [Accepted: 06/21/2022] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
Abstract
Invertebrates constitute the majority of animal species and are critical for ecosystem functioning and services. Nonetheless, global invertebrate biodiversity patterns and their congruences with vertebrates remain largely unknown. We resolve the first high-resolution (~20-km) global diversity map for a major invertebrate clade, ants, using biodiversity informatics, range modeling, and machine learning to synthesize existing knowledge and predict the distribution of undiscovered diversity. We find that ants and different vertebrate groups have distinct features in their patterns of richness and rarity, underscoring the need to consider a diversity of taxa in conservation. However, despite their phylogenetic and physiological divergence, ant distributions are not highly anomalous relative to variation among vertebrate clades. Furthermore, our models predict that rarity centers largely overlap (78%), suggesting that general forces shape endemism patterns across taxa. This raises confidence that conservation of areas important for small-ranged vertebrates will benefit invertebrates while providing a "treasure map" to guide future discovery.
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- Jamie M. Kass
- Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
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- Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
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- Department of Earth and Environment and Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, USA
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- Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
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- Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK
- Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa
- School of Animal, Plant, and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Wits 2050, South Africa
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, and Center for Future Landscapes, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- School of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu 30043, Taiwan
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- Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Biology and Geographical Ecology Group, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA
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- Center for Biodiversity and Global Change and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
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- Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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- CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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- Section of Zoology–Marine Biology, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Zografou 15772, Greece
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- AfriBugs CC, 341 27th Avenue, Villieria, Pretoria, Gauteng Province 0186, South Africa
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, Limpopo Province, South Africa
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- School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 852787-4501, USA
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- Department of Zoology, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, CEP 81531-980, PR, Brazil
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Entomology, and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
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- Biodiversity Collections, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas, El Paso, TX, 79968, USA
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- College of Science and Engineering, Central Queensland University, Townsville, QLD 4812, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
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- Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Basset Y, Hajibabaei M, Wright MTG, Castillo AM, Donoso DA, Segar ST, Souto-Vilarós D, Soliman DY, Roslin T, Smith MA, Lamarre GPA, De León LF, Decaëns T, Palacios-Vargas JG, Castaño-Meneses G, Scheffrahn RH, Rivera M, Perez F, Bobadilla R, Lopez Y, Ramirez Silva JA, Cruz MM, Galván AA, Barrios H. Comparison of traditional and DNA metabarcoding samples for monitoring tropical soil arthropods (Formicidae, Collembola and Isoptera). Sci Rep 2022; 12:10762. [PMID: 35750774 PMCID: PMC9232565 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-14915-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
Abstract
The soil fauna of the tropics remains one of the least known components of the biosphere. Long-term monitoring of this fauna is hampered by the lack of taxonomic expertise and funding. These obstacles may potentially be lifted with DNA metabarcoding. To validate this approach, we studied the ants, springtails and termites of 100 paired soil samples from Barro Colorado Island, Panama. The fauna was extracted with Berlese-Tullgren funnels and then either sorted with traditional taxonomy and known, individual DNA barcodes ("traditional samples") or processed with metabarcoding ("metabarcoding samples"). We detected 49 ant, 37 springtail and 34 termite species with 3.46 million reads of the COI gene, at a mean sequence length of 233 bp. Traditional identification yielded 80, 111 and 15 species of ants, springtails and termites, respectively; 98%, 37% and 100% of these species had a Barcode Index Number (BIN) allowing for direct comparison with metabarcoding. Ants were best surveyed through traditional methods, termites were better detected by metabarcoding, and springtails were equally well detected by both techniques. Species richness was underestimated, and faunal composition was different in metabarcoding samples, mostly because 37% of ant species were not detected. The prevalence of species in metabarcoding samples increased with their abundance in traditional samples, and seasonal shifts in species prevalence and faunal composition were similar between traditional and metabarcoding samples. Probable false positive and negative species records were reasonably low (13-18% of common species). We conclude that metabarcoding of samples extracted with Berlese-Tullgren funnels appear suitable for the long-term monitoring of termites and springtails in tropical rainforests. For ants, metabarcoding schemes should be complemented by additional samples of alates from Malaise or light traps.
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- Yves Basset
- ForestGEO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancon, Panamá, Panama.
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
- Maestría de Entomología, Universidad de Panamá, 080814, Panama City, Republic of Panama.
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- Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario and Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G2W1, Canada
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- Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario and Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G2W1, Canada
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- Centro de Biodiversidad y Descubrimiento de Drogas, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología (INDICASAT-AIP), P.O. Box 0843-01103, Panamá 5, Panama
- Department of Biotechnology, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, 522 510, India
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
- Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, EC170103, Quito, Ecuador
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- Agriculture and Environment Department, Harper Adams University, Newport, TF10 8NB, Shropshire, UK
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Vinicna 7, 128 44, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario and Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G2W1, Canada
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7044, 750 07, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G2W1, Canada
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- ForestGEO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancon, Panamá, Panama
- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Centro de Biodiversidad y Descubrimiento de Drogas, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología (INDICASAT-AIP), P.O. Box 0843-01103, Panamá 5, Panama
- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA, 02125, USA
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- CEFE, University of Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, University Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France
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- Laboratorio de Ecología y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Unidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Juriquilla, Juriquilla 76230, Querétaro, Mexico
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- Fort Lauderdale Research & Education Center, 3205 College Avenue, Davie, FL, 33314, USA
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- ForestGEO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancon, Panamá, Panama
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- ForestGEO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancon, Panamá, Panama
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- ForestGEO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancon, Panamá, Panama
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- ForestGEO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancon, Panamá, Panama
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- Laboratorio de Ecología y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Laboratorio de Ecología y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Maestría de Entomología, Universidad de Panamá, 080814, Panama City, Republic of Panama
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Hoenle PO, Donoso DA, Argoti A, Staab M, von Beeren C, Blüthgen N. Rapid ant community reassembly in a Neotropical forest: Recovery dynamics and land-use legacy. Ecol Appl 2022; 32:e2559. [PMID: 35112764 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2021] [Revised: 08/24/2021] [Accepted: 09/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Regrowing secondary forests dominate tropical regions today, and a mechanistic understanding of their recovery dynamics provides important insights for conservation. In particular, land-use legacy effects on the fauna have rarely been investigated. One of the most ecologically dominant and functionally important animal groups in tropical forests are the ants. Here, we investigated the recovery of ant communities in a forest-agricultural habitat mosaic in the Ecuadorian Chocó region. We used a replicated chronosequence of previously used cacao plantations and pastures with 1-34 years of regeneration time to study the recovery dynamics of species communities and functional diversity across the two land-use legacies. We compared two independent components of responses on these community properties: resistance, which is measured as the proportion of an initial property that remains following the disturbance; and resilience, which is the rate of recovery relative to its loss. We found that compositional and trait structure similarity to old-growth forest communities increased with regeneration age, whereas ant species richness remained always at a high level along the chronosequence. Land-use legacies influenced species composition, with former cacao plantations showing higher resemblance to old-growth forests than former pastures along the chronosequence. While resistance was low for species composition and high for species richness and traits, all community properties had similarly high resilience. In essence, our results show that ant communities of the Chocó recovery rapidly, with former cacao reaching predicted old-growth forest community levels after 21 years and pastures after 29 years. Recovery in this community was faster than reported from other ecosystems and was likely facilitated by the low-intensity farming in agricultural sites and their proximity to old-growth forest remnants. Our study indicates the great recovery potential for this otherwise highly threatened biodiversity hotspot.
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- Philipp O Hoenle
- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
- Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador
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- Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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Donoso DA, Basset Y, Shik JZ, Forrister DL, Uquillas A, Salazar-Méndez Y, Arizala S, Polanco P, Beckett S, Dominguez G. D, Barrios H. Male ant reproductive investment in a seasonal wet tropical forest: Consequences of future climate change. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0266222. [PMID: 35358265 PMCID: PMC8970379 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Tropical forests sustain many ant species whose mating events often involve conspicuous flying swarms of winged gynes and males. The success of these reproductive flights depends on environmental variables and determines the maintenance of local ant diversity. However, we lack a strong understanding of the role of environmental variables in shaping the phenology of these flights. Using a combination of community-level analyses and a time-series model on male abundance, we studied male ant phenology in a seasonally wet lowland rainforest in the Panama Canal. The male flights of 161 ant species, sampled with 10 Malaise traps during 58 consecutive weeks (from August 2014 to September 2015), varied widely in number (mean = 9.8 weeks, median = 4, range = 1 to 58). Those species abundant enough for analysis (n = 97) flew mainly towards the end of the dry season and at the start of the rainy season. While litterfall, rain, temperature, and air humidity explained community composition, the time-series model estimators elucidated more complex patterns of reproductive investment across the entire year. For example, male abundance increased in weeks when maximum daily temperature increased and in wet weeks during the dry season. On the contrary, male abundance decreased in periods when rain receded (e.g., at the start of the dry season), in periods when rain fell daily (e.g., right after the beginning of the wet season), or when there was an increase in the short-term rate of litterfall (e.g., at the end of the dry season). Together, these results suggest that the BCI ant community is adapted to the dry/wet transition as the best timing of reproductive investment. We hypothesize that current climate change scenarios for tropical regions with higher average temperature, but lower rainfall, may generate phenological mismatches between reproductive flights and the adequate conditions needed for a successful start of the colony.
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- David A. Donoso
- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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- ForestGEO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panamá
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
- Maestría de Entomología, Universidad de Panamá, Panama City, Panamá
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Social Evolution, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States of America
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- Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Economía Cuantitativa, Facultad de Ciencias, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama
- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, (PG-IB/ UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Maestría de Entomología, Universidad de Panamá, Panama City, Panamá
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- ForestGEO, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panamá
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- Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
- Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
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- Maestría de Entomología, Universidad de Panamá, Panama City, Panamá
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Wallis CIB, Tiede YC, Beck E, Böhning-Gaese K, Brandl R, Donoso DA, Espinosa CI, Fries A, Homeier J, Inclan D, Leuschner C, Maraun M, Mikolajewski K, Neuschulz EL, Scheu S, Schleuning M, Suárez JP, Tinoco BA, Farwig N, Bendix J. Biodiversity and ecosystem functions depend on environmental conditions and resources rather than the geodiversity of a tropical biodiversity hotspot. Sci Rep 2021; 11:24530. [PMID: 34972835 PMCID: PMC8720099 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-03488-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2021] [Accepted: 11/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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AbstractBiodiversity and ecosystem functions are highly threatened by global change. It has been proposed that geodiversity can be used as an easy-to-measure surrogate of biodiversity to guide conservation management. However, so far, there is mixed evidence to what extent geodiversity can predict biodiversity and ecosystem functions at the regional scale relevant for conservation planning. Here, we analyse how geodiversity computed as a compound index is suited to predict the diversity of four taxa and associated ecosystem functions in a tropical mountain hotspot of biodiversity and compare the results with the predictive power of environmental conditions and resources (climate, habitat, soil). We show that combinations of these environmental variables better explain species diversity and ecosystem functions than a geodiversity index and identified climate variables as more important predictors than habitat and soil variables, although the best predictors differ between taxa and functions. We conclude that a compound geodiversity index cannot be used as a single surrogate predictor for species diversity and ecosystem functions in tropical mountain rain forest ecosystems and is thus little suited to facilitate conservation management at the regional scale. Instead, both the selection and the combination of environmental variables are essential to guide conservation efforts to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystem functions.
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Basset Y, Donoso DA, Hajibabaei M, Wright MTG, Perez KHJ, Lamarre GPA, De León LF, Palacios-Vargas JG, Castaño-Meneses G, Rivera M, Perez F, Bobadilla R, Lopez Y, Ramirez JA, Barrios H. Methodological considerations for monitoring soil/litter arthropods in tropical rainforests using DNA metabarcoding, with a special emphasis on ants, springtails and termites. MBMG 2020. [DOI: 10.3897/mbmg.4.58572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Robust data to refute or support claims of global insect decline are currently lacking, particularly for the soil fauna in the tropics. DNA metabarcoding represents a powerful approach for rigorous spatial and temporal monitoring of the taxonomically challenging soil fauna. Here, we provide a detailed field protocol, which was successfully applied in Barro Colorado Island (BCI) in Panama, to collect soil samples and arthropods in a tropical rainforest, to be later processed with metabarcoding. We also estimate the proportion of soil/litter ant, springtail and termite species from the local fauna that can be detected by metabarcoding samples obtained either from Berlese-Tullgren (soil samples), Malaise or light traps. Each collecting method detected a rather distinct fauna. Soil and Malaise trap samples detected 213 species (73%) of all target species. Malaise trap samples detected many ant species, whereas soil samples were more efficient at detecting springtail and termite species. With respect to long-term monitoring of soil-dwelling and common species (more amenable to statistical trends), the best combination of two methods were soil and light trap samples, detecting 94% of the total of common species. A protocol including 100 soil, 40 Malaise and 80 light trap samples annually processed by metabarcoding would allow the long-term monitoring of at least 11%, 18% and 16% of species of soil/litter ants, springtails and termites, respectively, present on BCI, and a high proportion of the total abundance (up to 80% of all individuals) represented by these taxa.
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Mazón M, Jiménez MDC, Reátegui J, Donoso DA. Tritrophic web structure in montane Andean forests undergoing ecological restoration. Food Webs 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fooweb.2020.e00170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Shik JZ, Kooij PW, Donoso DA, Santos JC, Gomez EB, Franco M, Crumière AJJ, Arnan X, Howe J, Wcislo WT, Boomsma JJ. Nutritional niches reveal fundamental domestication trade-offs in fungus-farming ants. Nat Ecol Evol 2020; 5:122-134. [PMID: 33106603 PMCID: PMC7610523 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-01314-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
During crop domestication, human farmers traded greater productivity for higher crop vulnerability outside specialized cultivation conditions. We found a similar domestication tradeoff across the major co-evolutionary transitions in farming systems of attine ants. First, the fundamental nutritional niches (FNNs) of cultivars narrowed during ~ 60 million years of naturally selected domestication, and laboratory experiments showed that ant farmers representing subsequent domestication stages strictly regulate protein harvest relative to cultivar FNNs. Second, ants with different farming systems differed in their abilities to harvest the resources that best matched the nutritional needs of their fungal cultivars. This was assessed by quantifying realized nutritional niches (RNNs) from analyses of items collected from the mandibles of laden ant foragers in the field. Third, extensive field collections suggest that among-colony genetic diversity of cultivars in small-scale farms may offer population-wide resilience benefits that species with large-scale farming colonies achieve by more elaborate and demanding cultivation practices of less diverse crops. Our results underscore that naturally selected farming systems have potential to shed light on nutritional tradeoffs that shaped the course of culturally evolved human farming.
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- Jonathan Z Shik
- Section of Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. .,Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. .,Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Republic of Panama.
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- Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Comparative Fungal Biology, Department of Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, UK.,Center for the Study of Social Insects, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Rio Claro, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador.,Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Biological Sciences, St. John's University, New York, NY, USA
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Republic of Panama
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Republic of Panama
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- Section of Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain.,Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pernambuco, Garanhuns, Brazil
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- Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Republic of Panama
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- Section of Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.,Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Hoenle PO, Lattke JE, Donoso DA, von Beeren C, Heethoff M, Schmelzle S, Argoti A, Camacho L, Ströbel B, Blüthgen N. Odontomachus davidsoni sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), a new conspicuous trap-jaw ant from Ecuador. Zookeys 2020; 948:75-105. [PMID: 32765172 PMCID: PMC7381719 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.948.48701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2019] [Accepted: 03/27/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
One of the largest species in its genus, Odontomachusdavidsoni Hoenle, Lattke & Donoso, sp. nov. is described from workers and queens collected at lowland forests in the Chocó-Darién bioregion in coastal Ecuador. The workers are characterized by their uniform red coloration, their large size (16–18 mm body length), and their frontal head striation that reaches the occipital margin. DNA barcodes (COI) and high resolution 2D images of the type material are provided, as well as an updated key for the Neotropical species of Odontomachus. In addition, a three-dimensional digital model of the worker holotype and a paratype queen scanned with DISC3D based on photogrammetry is presented, for the first time in a species description. Findings of large and conspicuous new species are uncommon around the world and suggest that these Ecuadorian rainforests may conceal many more natural treasures that deserve conservation.
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- Philipp O Hoenle
- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador.,Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito EC170103, Ecuador
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- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia,Vancouver, Canada
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- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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Moskowitz NA, Dorritie B, Fay T, Nieves OC, Vidoudez C, 2017 Biology Class CRL, 2017 Biotechnology Class M, Fischer EK, Trauger SA, Coloma LA, Donoso DA, O’Connell LA. Land use impacts poison frog chemical defenses through changes in leaf litter ant communities. Neotropical Biodiversity 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2020.1744957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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- Masconomet Regional High School, Boxford, MA USA
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- Small Molecule Mass Spectrometry Facility, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Small Molecule Mass Spectrometry Facility, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Centro Jambatu De Investigación Y Conservación De Anfibios, Fundación Jambatu, San Rafael, Quito, Ecuador
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- Departamento De Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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García-Ruilova AB, Barragán A, Ordoñez SDC, García JF, Mazón JD, Cueva R, Donoso DA. First records of Diptera associated with human corpses in Ecuador. Neotropical Biodiversity 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2020.1845009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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- Ana Belén García-Ruilova
- Programa de Maestría en Criminalística, Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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- Museo QCAZ – Invertebrados, Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Departamento de analistas forenses, Servicio Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses, Loja, Ecuador
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- Departamento de analistas forenses, Servicio Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses, Loja, Ecuador
- Departamento Geología y Minas e Ingeniería Civil, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
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- Departamento de analistas forenses, Servicio Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses, Loja, Ecuador
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- Departamento de analistas forenses, Servicio Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses, Loja, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
- Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoame#x301;rica, Quito, Ecuador
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Moreno EA, Amat E, Meneses PE, Donoso DA, Barragán ÁR. Green bottle flies (Calliphoridae, Luciliinae) of Ecuador: geographic distribution, checklist and DNA barcodes. Neotropical Biodiversity 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2020.1804747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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- Emilia A. Moreno
- Museo de Zoología QCAZ, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
- Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE), CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Grupo de Investigación Bioforense, Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Forenses - Tecnológico de Antioquia, Institución Universitaria, Medellín, Colombia
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- Facultad de Ciencias Socioambientales, Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam, Napo, Ecuador
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- Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Departamento de Biología, Quito, Ecuador
- Centro de Investigación de la Biodiversidad y Cambio Climático, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Quito, Ecuador
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- Museo de Zoología QCAZ, Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Matthew T. McElroy
- Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720;
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador; . Send reprint requests to this address
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Hoenle PO, Blüthgen N, Brückner A, Kronauer DJC, Fiala B, Donoso DA, Smith MA, Ospina Jara B, von Beeren C. Species-level predation network uncovers high prey specificity in a Neotropical army ant community. Mol Ecol 2019; 28:2423-2440. [PMID: 31050080 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2018] [Revised: 03/14/2019] [Accepted: 03/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Army ants are among the top arthropod predators and considered keystone species in tropical ecosystems. During daily mass raids with many thousand workers, army ants hunt live prey, likely exerting strong top-down control on prey species. Many tropical sites exhibit a high army ant species diversity (>20 species), suggesting that sympatric species partition the available prey niches. However, whether and to what extent this is achieved has not been intensively studied yet. We therefore conducted a large-scale diet survey of a community of surface-raiding army ants at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. We systematically collected 3,262 prey items from eleven army ant species (genera Eciton, Nomamyrmex and Neivamyrmex). Prey items were classified as ant prey or non-ant prey. The prey nearly exclusively consisted of other ants (98%), and most booty was ant brood (87%). Using morphological characters and DNA barcoding, we identified a total of 1,103 ant prey specimens to the species level. One hundred twenty-nine ant species were detected among the army ant prey, representing about 30% of the known local ant diversity. Using weighted bipartite network analyses, we show that prey specialization in army ants is unexpectedly high and prey niche overlap very small. Besides food niche differentiation, we uncovered a spatiotemporal niche differentiation in army ant raid activity. We discuss competition-driven multidimensional niche differentiation and predator-prey arms races as possible mechanisms underlying prey specialization in army ants. By combining systematic prey sampling with species-level prey identification and network analyses, our integrative approach can guide future research by portraying how predator-prey interactions in complex communities can be reliably studied, even in cases where morphological prey identification is infeasible.
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- Philipp O Hoenle
- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.,Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.,Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
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- Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York City, New York
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- Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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- Washington Pruna
- Laboratorio de Entomología, Museo de Zoología QCAZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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- Laboratorio de Entomología, Museo de Zoología QCAZ, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador
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Moskowitz NA, Roland AB, Fischer EK, Ranaivorazo N, Vidoudez C, Aguilar MT, Caldera SM, Chea J, Cristus MG, Crowdis JP, DeMessie B, desJardins-Park CR, Effenberger AH, Flores F, Giles M, He EY, Izmaylov NS, Lee CC, Pagel NA, Phu KK, Rosen LU, Seda DA, Shen Y, Vargas S, Murray AW, Abebe E, Trauger SA, Donoso DA, Vences M, O’Connell LA. Seasonal changes in diet and chemical defense in the Climbing Mantella frog (Mantella laevigata). PLoS One 2018; 13:e0207940. [PMID: 30586404 PMCID: PMC6306172 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2018] [Accepted: 11/08/2018] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Poison frogs acquire chemical defenses from the environment for protection against potential predators. These defensive chemicals are lipophilic alkaloids that are sequestered by poison frogs from dietary arthropods and stored in skin glands. Despite decades of research focusing on identifying poison frog alkaloids, we know relatively little about how environmental variation and subsequent arthropod availability impacts alkaloid loads in poison frogs. We investigated how seasonal environmental variation influences poison frog chemical profiles through changes in the diet of the Climbing Mantella (Mantella laevigata). We collected M. laevigata females on the Nosy Mangabe island reserve in Madagascar during the wet and dry seasons and tested the hypothesis that seasonal differences in rainfall is associated with changes in diet composition and skin alkaloid profiles of M. laevigata. The arthropod diet of each frog was characterized into five groups (i.e. ants, termites, mites, insect larvae, or 'other') using visual identification and cytochrome oxidase 1 DNA barcoding. We found that frog diet differed between the wet and dry seasons, where frogs had a more diverse diet in the wet season and consumed a higher percentage of ants in the dry season. To determine if seasonality was associated with variation in frog defensive chemical composition, we used gas chromatography / mass spectrometry to quantify alkaloids from individual skin samples. Although the assortment of identified alkaloids was similar across seasons, we detected significant differences in the abundance of certain alkaloids, which we hypothesize reflects seasonal variation in the diet of M. laevigata. We suggest that these variations could originate from seasonal changes in either arthropod leaf litter composition or changes in frog behavioral patterns. Although additional studies are needed to understand the consequences of long-term environmental shifts, this work suggests that alkaloid profiles are relatively robust against short-term environmental perturbations.
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- Nora A. Moskowitz
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar
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- FAS Small Molecule Mass Spectrometry Facility, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- FAS Small Molecule Mass Spectrometry Facility, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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- Braunschweig University of Technology, Zoological Institute, Braunschweig, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America
- LS50: Integrated Science Freshman Class, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Arnan X, Andersen AN, Gibb H, Parr CL, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR, Angulo E, Baccaro FB, Bishop TR, Boulay R, Castracani C, Cerdá X, Toro ID, Delsinne T, Donoso DA, Elten EK, Fayle TM, Fitzpatrick MC, Gómez C, Grasso DA, Grossman BF, Guénard B, Gunawardene N, Heterick B, Hoffmann BD, Janda M, Jenkins CN, Klimes P, Lach L, Laeger T, Leponce M, Lucky A, Majer J, Menke S, Mezger D, Mori A, Moses J, Munyai TC, Paknia O, Pfeiffer M, Philpott SM, Souza JLP, Tista M, Vasconcelos HL, Retana J. Dominance-diversity relationships in ant communities differ with invasion. Glob Chang Biol 2018; 24:4614-4625. [PMID: 29851235 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2018] [Revised: 02/27/2018] [Accepted: 05/16/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
The relationship between levels of dominance and species richness is highly contentious, especially in ant communities. The dominance-impoverishment rule states that high levels of dominance only occur in species-poor communities, but there appear to be many cases of high levels of dominance in highly diverse communities. The extent to which dominant species limit local richness through competitive exclusion remains unclear, but such exclusion appears more apparent for non-native rather than native dominant species. Here we perform the first global analysis of the relationship between behavioral dominance and species richness. We used data from 1,293 local assemblages of ground-dwelling ants distributed across five continents to document the generality of the dominance-impoverishment rule, and to identify the biotic and abiotic conditions under which it does and does not apply. We found that the behavioral dominance-diversity relationship varies greatly, and depends on whether dominant species are native or non-native, whether dominance is considered as occurrence or relative abundance, and on variation in mean annual temperature. There were declines in diversity with increasing dominance in invaded communities, but diversity increased with increasing dominance in native communities. These patterns occur along the global temperature gradient. However, positive and negative relationships are strongest in the hottest sites. We also found that climate regulates the degree of behavioral dominance, but differently from how it shapes species richness. Our findings imply that, despite strong competitive interactions among ants, competitive exclusion is not a major driver of local richness in native ant communities. Although the dominance-impoverishment rule applies to invaded communities, we propose an alternative dominance-diversification rule for native communities.
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT, Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Environmental Program, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
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- Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Institute of Insect Biology, University François Rabelais of Tours, Tours, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
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- Biology Department, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Escuela Politécnicamenk Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, and Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Appalachian Lab, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, Maryland
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- Department of Environmental Science, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, and Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- National Laboratory for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (LANASE), ENES, UNAM, Michoacan, Mexico
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- IPÊ - Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas, Nazaré Paulista, SP, Brasil
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, and Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- New Guinea Binatang Research Center, Madang, Papua New Guinea
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Experimental Diabetology (DIAB), German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE), Nuthetal, Germany
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- Biodiversity Monitoring & Assessment, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
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- University of Florida Entomology & Nematology Department,, Gainesville, Florida
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of WA, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois
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- Department of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Entomology, and Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- New Guinea Binatang Research Center, Madang, Papua New Guinea
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- ITZ, Ecology and Evolution, TiHo Hannover, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California
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- Science and Technology for Amazonian Resources Graduate Program, Institute of Exact Sciences and Technology (ICET), Itacoatiara, AM, Brazil
- Biodiversity Coordination, National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Division of Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalunya, Spain
- Univ Autònoma Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalunya, Spain
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Roslin T, Hardwick B, Novotny V, Petry WK, Andrew NR, Asmus A, Barrio IC, Basset Y, Boesing AL, Bonebrake TC, Cameron EK, Dáttilo W, Donoso DA, Drozd P, Gray CL, Hik DS, Hill SJ, Hopkins T, Huang S, Koane B, Laird-Hopkins B, Laukkanen L, Lewis OT, Milne S, Mwesige I, Nakamura A, Nell CS, Nichols E, Prokurat A, Sam K, Schmidt NM, Slade A, Slade V, Suchanková A, Teder T, van Nouhuys S, Vandvik V, Weissflog A, Zhukovich V, Slade EM. Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations. Science 2018; 356:742-744. [PMID: 28522532 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaj1631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 266] [Impact Index Per Article: 44.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2016] [Accepted: 04/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
Biotic interactions underlie ecosystem structure and function, but predicting interaction outcomes is difficult. We tested the hypothesis that biotic interaction strength increases toward the equator, using a global experiment with model caterpillars to measure predation risk. Across an 11,660-kilometer latitudinal gradient spanning six continents, we found increasing predation toward the equator, with a parallel pattern of increasing predation toward lower elevations. Patterns across both latitude and elevation were driven by arthropod predators, with no systematic trend in attack rates by birds or mammals. These matching gradients at global and regional scales suggest consistent drivers of biotic interaction strength, a finding that needs to be integrated into general theories of herbivory, community organization, and life-history evolution.
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- Tomas Roslin
- Spatial Foodweb Ecology Group, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Post Office Box 7044, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden. .,Spatial Foodweb Ecology Group, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Post Office Box 27, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Spatial Foodweb Ecology Group, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Post Office Box 27, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Branisovska 31, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.,Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 1760, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.,The New Guinea Binatang Research Center, Post Office Box 604, Madang, Papua New Guinea
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California-Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-2525, USA.,Institute of Integrative Biology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Universitätstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Insect Ecology Lab, Centre of Excellence for Behavioural and Physiological Ecology, University of New England, NSW, Australia, 2351, Australia
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- Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2E9 Alberta, Canada.,Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7 IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Branisovska 31, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.,Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 1760, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.,Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Panama City, Republic of Panama
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- Department of Ecology, University of São Paulo, Rua do Matão 321, T-14, CEP 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam Rd, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China
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- Metapopulation Research Centre, Department of Biosciences, Post Office Box 65, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland.,Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate Change, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, København, Denmark
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- Red de Ecoetología, Instituto de Ecología, CP 91070, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Ladrón de Guevara E11-253, Quito, Ecuador
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- University of Ostrava, Faculty of Science-Department of Biology and Ecology, Chittussiho 10, 710 00 Slezská Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) of Existence, Conservation Programmes, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London NW1 4RY, UK.,Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, T6G 2E9 Alberta, Canada
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- Insect Ecology Lab, Centre of Excellence for Behavioural and Physiological Ecology, University of New England, NSW, Australia, 2351, Australia
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- Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit, FI-20014 University of Turku, Finland
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, 666303 Yunnan, People's Republic of China
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- The New Guinea Binatang Research Center, Post Office Box 604, Madang, Papua New Guinea
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Panama City, Republic of Panama
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
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- University of Aberdeen, Zoology Building, Tillydrone Avenue, Aberdeen AB24 2TZ, UK
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- Makerere University Biological Field Station, Post Office Box 409, Fort Portal, Uganda
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, 666303 Yunnan, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California-Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-2525, USA
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- Department of Ecology, University of São Paulo, Rua do Matão 321, T-14, CEP 05508-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.,Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081, USA
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- State Institution of Education, Zditovo High School, Zditovo, Belarus
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- Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS), Branisovska 31, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.,Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 1760, 37005 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.,Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- 40 Town End Lane, Lepton, Huddersfield, HD8 ONA, UK
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- 40 Town End Lane, Lepton, Huddersfield, HD8 ONA, UK
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- University of Ostrava, Faculty of Science-Department of Biology and Ecology, Chittussiho 10, 710 00 Slezská Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, EE-51014 Tartu, Estonia
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- Metapopulation Research Centre, Department of Biosciences, Post Office Box 65, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Biology, University of Bergen, Post Office Box 7800, 5020 Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Plant Ecology, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- State Institution of Education, Zditovo High School, Zditovo, Belarus
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- Spatial Foodweb Ecology Group, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Post Office Box 27, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland.,Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.,Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster, Lancaster, UK
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Gibb H, Dunn RR, Sanders NJ, Grossman BF, Photakis M, Abril S, Agosti D, Andersen AN, Angulo E, Armbrecht I, Arnan X, Baccaro FB, Bishop TR, Boulay R, Brühl C, Castracani C, Cerda X, Del Toro I, Delsinne T, Diaz M, Donoso DA, Ellison AM, Enriquez ML, Fayle TM, Feener DH, Fisher BL, Fisher RN, Fitzpatrick MC, Gómez C, Gotelli NJ, Gove A, Grasso DA, Groc S, Guenard B, Gunawardene N, Heterick B, Hoffmann B, Janda M, Jenkins C, Kaspari M, Klimes P, Lach L, Laeger T, Lattke J, Leponce M, Lessard JP, Longino J, Lucky A, Luke SH, Majer J, McGlynn TP, Menke S, Mezger D, Mori A, Moses J, Munyai TC, Pacheco R, Paknia O, Pearce-Duvet J, Pfeiffer M, Philpott SM, Resasco J, Retana J, Silva RR, Sorger MD, Souza J, Suarez A, Tista M, Vasconcelos HL, Vonshak M, Weiser MD, Yates M, Parr CL. A global database of ant species abundances. Ecology 2017; 98:883-884. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/2016] [Revised: 11/22/2016] [Accepted: 11/29/2016] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Heloise Gibb
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution; La Trobe University; Melbourne 3086 Victoria Australia
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- Department of Applied Ecology; North Carolina State University; Raleigh North Carolina 27695 USA
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate; Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate; Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution; La Trobe University; Melbourne 3086 Victoria Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution; La Trobe University; Melbourne 3086 Victoria Australia
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- Department of Environmental Science; University of Girona; Montilivi Campus s/n 17071 Girona Spain
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- Naturhistorisches Museum Bern; Bernastrasse 15 3005 Bern Switzerland
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- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre; PMB 44 Winnellie Northern Territory 0822 Australia
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- Departamento de Etología y Conservación de la Biodiversidad; Estación Biológica de Doñana; Avenida Americo Vespucio s/n (Isla de la Cartuja) Sevilla 41092 Spain
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- Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas; Universidad del Valle; Cali Colombia
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- Departamento de Botânica; Universidade Federal Pernambuco; Avenida Prof Moraes Rego s/no Cidade Universitária Pernambuco Brazil
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- Departamento de Biologia; Universidade Federal do Amazonas-UFAM; Manaus Amazonas Brazil
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences; University of Liverpool; Liverpool L69 3GP United Kingdom
- Department of Zoology and Entomology; Centre for Invasion Biology; University of Pretoria; Pretoria 0002 South Africa
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- Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte et Département, d'Aménagement du Territoire Université; François Rabelais de Tours; Tours 37200 France
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- Institute for Environmental Sciences; University Koblenz-Landau; Fortstraße 7 76829 Landau in der Pfalz Germany
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- Department of Life Sciences; University of Parma; Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A Parma 43124 Italy
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- Departamento de Etología y Conservación de la Biodiversidad; Estación Biológica de Doñana; Avenida Americo Vespucio s/n (Isla de la Cartuja) Sevilla 41092 Spain
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate; Natural History Museum of Denmark; University of Copenhagen; Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark
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- Société d'Histoire Naturelle Alcide-d'Orbigny; 57 rue de Gergovie 63170 Aubière France
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- Department of Environmental Science; University of Girona; Montilivi Campus s/n 17071 Girona Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas; Escuela Politécnica Nacional; Avenida Ladrón de Guevara E11253 Quito Ecuador
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- Harvard Forest; Harvard University; 324 North Main Street Petersham Massachusetts 01366 USA
- Departments of Biology and Environmental Conservation; University of Massachusetts; Morrill Science Center and Holdsworth Hall, 611 North Pleasant Street Amherst Massachusetts 01003 USA
- Faculty of Arts, Business and Law; Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast; 90 Sippy Downs Drive Sippy Downs Queensland 4556 Australia
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- Department of Environmental Science; University of Girona; Montilivi Campus s/n 17071 Girona Spain
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- Institute of Entomology; Biology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech Republic and Faculty of Science; University of South Bohemia; Branišovská 31 České Budějovice 370 05 Czech Republic
- Forest Ecology and Conservation Group; Imperial College London; Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road Ascot SL5 7PY United Kingdom
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- Department of Biology; University of Utah; Salt Lake City Utah 84112 USA
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- Entomology; California Academy of Sciences; San Francisco California USA
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- Western Ecological Research Center; U.S. Geological Survey; San Diego Field Station 4165 Spruance Road, Suite 200 San Diego California 92101 USA
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- Appalachian Laboratory; University of Maryland Centre for Environmental Science; Frostburg Maryland 21532 USA
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- Department of Environmental Science; University of Girona; Montilivi Campus s/n 17071 Girona Spain
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- Astron Environmental Services; Perth Western Australia Australia
- Department of Environment and Agriculture; Curtin University; G.P.O. Box U1987 Perth Western Australia 6845 Australia
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- Department of Life Sciences; University of Parma; Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A Parma 43124 Italy
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- Instituto de Biologia; Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) Rua Ceara; Uberlândia Minas Gerais 38400-902 Brazil
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- School of Biological Sciences; The University of Hong Kong; Pok Fu Lam Road Hong Kong China
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture; Curtin University; G.P.O. Box U1987 Perth Western Australia 6845 Australia
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture; Curtin University; G.P.O. Box U1987 Perth Western Australia 6845 Australia
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- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre; PMB 44 Winnellie Northern Territory 0822 Australia
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- Institute of Entomology; Biology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech Republic and Faculty of Science; University of South Bohemia; Branišovská 31 České Budějovice 370 05 Czech Republic
- Department of Biology; University of Guanajuato; Noria Alta sn. Guanajuato Mexico
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- IPÊ-Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas; Nazaré Paulista São Paulo 12960-000 Brazil
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- Department of Biology; University of Oklahoma; 730 Van Vleet Oval, Room 314 Norman Oklahoma 73019 USA
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- Institute of Entomology; Biology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech Republic and Faculty of Science; University of South Bohemia; Branišovská 31 České Budějovice 370 05 Czech Republic
- New Guinea Binatang Research Center; P.O. Box 604 Madang Papua New Guinea
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- Centre for Tropical Biology and Climate Change; School of Marine and Tropical Biology; James Cook University; P.O. Box 6811 Cairns Queensland 4870 Australia
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- Departamento de Zoologia; Universidade Federal do Paraná; Caixa Postal 19020 81531-980 Curitiba Paraná Brazil
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- Section of Biological Evaluation; Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; Rue Vautier, 29 Brussels 1000 Belgium
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- Department of Biology; University of Utah; Salt Lake City Utah 84112 USA
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- Entomology and Nematology Department; University of Florida; 970 Natural Area Drive Gainesville Florida 32611 USA
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- School of Biological Sciences; University of East Anglia; Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom
- Department of Zoology; University of Cambridge; Downing Street Cambridge CB2 3EJ United Kingdom
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture; Curtin University; G.P.O. Box U1987 Perth Western Australia 6845 Australia
- School of Plant Biology; The University of Western Australia; 35 Stirling Highway Crawley Western Australia 6009 Australia
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- Depatment of Biology; California State University Dominguez Hills; 1000 East Victoria Street Carson California 90747 USA
- Department of Entomology; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Los Angeles California USA
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- Department of Biology; Lake Forest College; 555 North Sheridan Road Lake Forest Illinois 60045 USA
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- Division of Insects; Department of Zoology; Moreau Lab; Field Museum of Natural History; 1400 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago Illinois 60605 USA
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- Department of Life Sciences; University of Parma; Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A Parma 43124 Italy
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- Institute of Entomology; Biology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech Republic and Faculty of Science; University of South Bohemia; Branišovská 31 České Budějovice 370 05 Czech Republic
- New Guinea Binatang Research Center; P.O. Box 604 Madang Papua New Guinea
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- School of Life Sciences; College of Agriculture Engineering and Science; University of KwaZulu-Natal; Pietermaritzburg 3209 South Africa
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- Instituto de Biologia; Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) Rua Ceara; Uberlândia Minas Gerais 38400-902 Brazil
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- Institute of Animal Ecology and Cell Biology; TiHo Hannover; Bünteweg 17d Hannover 30559 Germany
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- Department of Ecology; National University of Mongolia; Baga Toiruu 47 P.O. Box 377 Ulaanbaatar 210646 Mongolia
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- Environmental Studies Department; University of California; 1156 High Street Santa Cruz California 95060 USA
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- The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; University of Colorado; UCB 334 Boulder Colorado 80309 USA
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- Universitat Autònoma Barcelona; Cerdanyola del Vallès 08193 Spain
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- Coordenação de Ciências da Terra e Ecologia; Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi; Belém Pará Brazil
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- Department of Applied Ecology; North Carolina State University; Raleigh North Carolina 27695 USA
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- Coordenação de Biodiversidade; National Institute of Amazonian Research; Manaus Amazonas Brazil
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- Department of Entomology; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Urbana Illinois 61801 USA
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- Department of Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity; University of Vienna; Rennweg 14 Vienna 1030 Austria
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- Instituto de Biologia; Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) Rua Ceara; Uberlândia Minas Gerais 38400-902 Brazil
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- Department of Biology; Stanford University; Stanford California 94305 USA
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- Department of Biology; University of Oklahoma; 730 Van Vleet Oval, Room 314 Norman Oklahoma 73019 USA
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- Centre for Behavioural and Physiological Ecology, Zoology; University of New England; Armidale New South Wales Australia
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences; University of Liverpool; Liverpool L69 3GP United Kingdom
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- Rafael E. Cárdenas
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas; Museo de Zoología QCAZ; Laboratorio de Entomología; Av. 12 de octubre 1076 y Roca, Apdo. 17-01-2184 Quito Ecuador
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD); UR 072; LEGS-CNRS; UPR 9034; CNRS; Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex 91198 France
- Université Paris-Sud 11; Orsay Cedex 91405 France
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- Escuela Politécnica Nacional; Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas; Av. Ladrón de Guevara E11-253 Quito Ecuador
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- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas; Museo de Zoología QCAZ; Laboratorio de Entomología; Av. 12 de octubre 1076 y Roca, Apdo. 17-01-2184 Quito Ecuador
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- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador; Escuela de Ciencias Biológicas; Museo de Zoología QCAZ; Laboratorio de Entomología; Av. 12 de octubre 1076 y Roca, Apdo. 17-01-2184 Quito Ecuador
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD); UR 072; LEGS-CNRS; UPR 9034; CNRS; Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex 91198 France
- Université Paris-Sud 11; Orsay Cedex 91405 France
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Báez S, Jaramillo L, Cuesta F, Donoso DA. Effects of climate change on Andean biodiversity: a synthesis of studies published until 2015. Neotropical Biodiversity 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/23766808.2016.1248710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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- Selene Báez
- Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecoregion Andina, Lima, Peru
- Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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- Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
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- Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecoregion Andina, Lima, Peru
- Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Loja, Ecuador
- Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
- Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
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Báez S, Donoso DA, Queenborough SA, Jaramillo L, Valencia R, Dangles O. Ant Mutualism Increases Long-Term Growth and Survival of a Common Amazonian Tree. Am Nat 2016; 188:567-575. [DOI: 10.1086/688401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Amorim DS, Santos CMD, Krell FT, Dubois A, Nihei SS, Oliveira OMP, Pont A, Song H, Verdade VK, Fachin DA, Klassa B, Lamas CJE, Oliveira SS, Carvalho CJBD, Mello-Patiu CA, Hajdu E, Couri MS, Silva VC, Capellari RS, Falaschi RL, Feitosa RM, Prendini L, Pombal JPJ, Fernández F, Rocha RM, Lattke JE, Caramaschi U, Duarte M, Marques AC, Reis RE, Kurina O, Takiya DM, Tavares M, Fernandes DS, Franco FL, Cuezzo F, Paulson D, Guénard B, Schlick-Steiner BC, Arthofer W, Steiner FM, Fisher BL, Johnson RA, Delsinne TD, Donoso DA, Mulieri PR, Patitucci LD, Carpenter JM, Herman L, Grimaldi D. Timeless standards for species delimitation. Zootaxa 2016; 4137:121-8. [PMID: 27395746 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4137.1.9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
Abstract
Recently a new species of bombyliid fly, Marleyimyia xylocopae, was described by Marshall & Evenhuis (2015) based on two photographs taken during fieldwork in the Republic of South Africa. This species has no preserved holotype. The paper generated some buzz, especially among dipterists, because in most cases photographs taken in the field provide insufficient information for properly diagnosing and documenting species of Diptera.
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Gibb H, Sanders NJ, Dunn RR, Watson S, Photakis M, Abril S, Andersen AN, Angulo E, Armbrecht I, Arnan X, Baccaro FB, Bishop TR, Boulay R, Castracani C, Del Toro I, Delsinne T, Diaz M, Donoso DA, Enríquez ML, Fayle TM, Feener DH, Fitzpatrick MC, Gómez C, Grasso DA, Groc S, Heterick B, Hoffmann BD, Lach L, Lattke J, Leponce M, Lessard JP, Longino J, Lucky A, Majer J, Menke SB, Mezger D, Mori A, Munyai TC, Paknia O, Pearce-Duvet J, Pfeiffer M, Philpott SM, de Souza JLP, Tista M, Vasconcelos HL, Vonshak M, Parr CL. Climate mediates the effects of disturbance on ant assemblage structure. Proc Biol Sci 2016; 282:20150418. [PMID: 25994675 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0418] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Many studies have focused on the impacts of climate change on biological assemblages, yet little is known about how climate interacts with other major anthropogenic influences on biodiversity, such as habitat disturbance. Using a unique global database of 1128 local ant assemblages, we examined whether climate mediates the effects of habitat disturbance on assemblage structure at a global scale. Species richness and evenness were associated positively with temperature, and negatively with disturbance. However, the interaction among temperature, precipitation and disturbance shaped species richness and evenness. The effect was manifested through a failure of species richness to increase substantially with temperature in transformed habitats at low precipitation. At low precipitation levels, evenness increased with temperature in undisturbed sites, peaked at medium temperatures in disturbed sites and remained low in transformed sites. In warmer climates with lower rainfall, the effects of increasing disturbance on species richness and evenness were akin to decreases in temperature of up to 9°C. Anthropogenic disturbance and ongoing climate change may interact in complicated ways to shape the structure of assemblages, with hot, arid environments likely to be at greatest risk.
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Affiliation(s)
- Heloise Gibb
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, 569 Dabney Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen Ø 2100, Denmark
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7617, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus s/n, Girona 17071, Spain
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- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, PMB 44 Winnellie, Northern Territory 0822, Australia
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- Estación Biológica de Doñana, Dpt. Etología y Conservación de la Biodiversidad, Avda. Americo Vespucio s/n (Isla de la Cartuja), Sevilla 41092, Spain
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- Department of Biology, Universidad del Valle (Colombia), Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
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- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalunya 08193, Spain
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- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, CEP 69077-000, Manaus, Brazil
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South Africa
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- Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte et Département, d'Aménagement du Territoire Université, François Rabelais de Tours, Tours 37200, France
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, Parma 43124, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01366, USA
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- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Section of Biological Evaluation, Rue Vautier, 29, Brussels 1000, Belgium
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus s/n, Girona 17071, Spain
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- Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto, CP 1101608, Loja, Ecuador
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus s/n, Girona 17071, Spain
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- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia and Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre of Academy of Sciences Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, České Budějovice 370 05, Czech Republic Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Utah, 257 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Centre for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD 21532, USA
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus s/n, Girona 17071, Spain
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, Parma 43124, Italy
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- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) Rua Ceara, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais 38400-902, Brazil
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia
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- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, PMB 44 Winnellie, Northern Territory 0822, Australia
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- Centre for Tropical Biology and Climate Change, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia
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- Museo Inst. Zoologia Agricola, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado 4579, Maracay 2101-A, Venezuela
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- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Section of Biological Evaluation, Rue Vautier, 29, Brussels 1000, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4B-1R6
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- Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, 970 Natural Area Drive, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620, USA
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- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia
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- Department of Biology, Lake Forest College, 555 North Sheridan Road, Lake Forest, IL 60045, USA
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- Field Museum of Natural History, Department of Zoology, Division of Insects, Moreau Lab, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, Parma 43124, Italy
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- Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Ecology and Resource Management, University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa
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- Institute of Animal Ecology and Cell Biology, TiHo Hannover, Bünteweg 17d, Hannover 30559, Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Utah, 257 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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- Department of Ecology, National University of Mongolia, Baga toiruu 47, PO Box 377, Ulaanbaatar 210646, Mongolia
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- Environmental Studies Department, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Amazônicas-INPA, Coordenação de Biodiversidade-Cbio, Avenida André Araújo, 2936-Caixa Postal 2223, CEP 69080-971, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
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- Department of Tropical Ecology and Animal Biodiversity, University of Vienna, Rennweg 14, Vienna 1030, Austria
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- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Av. Pará 1720, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais 38405-320, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
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- Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK
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Clay NA, Donoso DA, Kaspari M. Urine as an important source of sodium increases decomposition in an inland but not coastal tropical forest. Oecologia 2014; 177:571-9. [PMID: 25519175 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3183-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2014] [Accepted: 12/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nutrient pulses can profoundly impact ecosystem processes and urine is a frequently deposited source of N and K, and Na. Na is unimportant to plants, but its addition can increase decomposition and change invertebrate community structure in Na-poor tropical forests. Here we used synthetic urine to separate the effects of Na from urine's other nutrients and contrasted their roles in promoting decomposition and detritivore recruitment in both a Na-poor inland Ecuadorian and Na-rich coastal Panamanian tropical forest. After 2 days, invertebrate communities did not vary among +Na, H2O, Urine+Na, and Urine-Na treatments. But after 2 weeks, Ecuador wood, but not cellulose, decomposition was twofold higher on Urine+Na and +Na plots compared to H2O and Urine-Na plots accompanied by >20-fold increases in termite abundance on these plots. Panama, in contrast, showed no effect of Na on decomposition. In both forests, plots fertilized with urine had nearly twofold decrease in detritivores after 2 weeks that was likely a shock effect from ammonification. Moreover, the non-Na nutrients in urine did not enhance decomposition at this time scale. On control plots, Panama had higher decomposition rates for both cellulose and wood than Ecuador, but the addition of Na in Ecuador alleviated these differences. These results support the hypothesis that in Na-poor tropical forests, urine can enhance wood decomposition and generate an important source of heterogeneity in the abundance and activity of brown food webs.
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- Department of Biology, University of Oklahoma, 730 Van Vleet Oval, Norman, OK, 73019, USA,
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Added Na was used to determine whether litter decomposition and associated fungal biomass and termites are limited by Na availability in a lowland tropical rainforest at Yasuni, Ecuador. This is a partial test of the "sodium ecosystem respiration" (SER) hypothesis that posits Na is critical for consumers but not plants, that Na shortfall is more likely on highly weathered soils inland from oceanic aerosols, and that this shortfall results in decreased decomposer activity. We fertilized 4 x 4 m plots twice a month for a year with quantities of Na comparable to those falling on a coastal tropical rainforest. Decomposition rates of four substrates were consistently higher on +NaCl plots by up to 70% for cellulose, and 78%, 68%, and 29% for three woods of increasing percentage lignin. The density of termite workers averaged 17-fold higher on +NaCl plots; fungal biomass failed to differ. After controlling for temperature and precipitation, which co-limit gross primay productivity (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (ER), these results suggest that Na shortfall is an agent enhancing the storage of coarse woody debris in inland tropical forests.
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Donoso DA, Johnston MK, Kaspari M. Trees as templates for tropical litter arthropod diversity. Oecologia 2010; 164:201-11. [DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1607-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2009] [Accepted: 02/17/2010] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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