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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
| | - Robert R Dunn
- Department of Biological Sciences and Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7617, USA
| | - Simon Watson
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
| | - Manoli Photakis
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and the Environment, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia
| | - Silvia Abril
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus s/n, Girona 17071, Spain
| | - Alan N Andersen
- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, PMB 44 Winnellie, Northern Territory 0822, Australia
| | - Elena Angulo
- Estación Biológica de Doñana, Dpt. Etología y Conservación de la Biodiversidad, Avda. Americo Vespucio s/n (Isla de la Cartuja), Sevilla 41092, Spain
| | - Inge Armbrecht
- Department of Biology, Universidad del Valle (Colombia), Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
| | - Xavier Arnan
- CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalunya 08193, Spain
| | - Fabricio B Baccaro
- Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, CEP 69077-000, Manaus, Brazil
| | - Tom R Bishop
- 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
| | - Raphael Boulay
- Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte et Département, d'Aménagement du Territoire Université, François Rabelais de Tours, Tours 37200, France
| | - Cristina Castracani
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, Parma 43124, Italy
| | - Israel Del Toro
- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01366, USA
| | - Thibaut Delsinne
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Section of Biological Evaluation, Rue Vautier, 29, Brussels 1000, Belgium
| | - Mireia Diaz
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus s/n, Girona 17071, Spain
| | - David A Donoso
- Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, San Cayetano Alto, CP 1101608, Loja, Ecuador
| | - Martha L Enríquez
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus s/n, Girona 17071, Spain
| | - Tom M Fayle
- 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
| | - Donald H Feener
- Department of Biology, University of Utah, 257 S 1400 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
| | - Matthew C Fitzpatrick
- Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Centre for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD 21532, USA
| | - Crisanto Gómez
- Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Montilivi Campus s/n, Girona 17071, Spain
| | - Donato A Grasso
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11/A, Parma 43124, Italy
| | - Sarah Groc
- Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) Rua Ceara, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais 38400-902, Brazil
| | - Brian Heterick
- Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia
| | - Benjamin D Hoffmann
- CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre, PMB 44 Winnellie, Northern Territory 0822, Australia
| | - Lori Lach
- Centre for Tropical Biology and Climate Change, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia
| | - John Lattke
- Museo Inst. Zoologia Agricola, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado 4579, Maracay 2101-A, Venezuela
| | - Maurice Leponce
- 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
| | - Andrea Lucky
- Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, 970 Natural Area Drive, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620, USA
| | - Jonathan Majer
- 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
| | - Martin Pfeiffer
- 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
| | - Jorge L P de Souza
- 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
| | - Catherine L Parr
- Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GP, UK
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