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Ants offset bottom-up control of spiders in Amazonian savanna trees 蚂蚁抵消了亚马逊热带草原上自下而上的蜘蛛控制
IF 1.8 4区 环境科学与生态学
Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2023.103955
Pedro A.C.L. Pequeno , Ciro Campos , Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa
{"title":"Ants offset bottom-up control of spiders in Amazonian savanna trees","authors":"Pedro A.C.L. Pequeno ,&nbsp;Ciro Campos ,&nbsp;Reinaldo Imbrozio Barbosa","doi":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2023.103955","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Community trophic structure is shaped by concurrent bottom-up (resources) and top-down effects (predators), but the extent to which they interact remains uncertain. The Exploitation Ecosystems Hypothesis predicts that predators should offset increases in herbivore abundance with plant productivity, which is supported by data. However, the extent to which interactions within trophic levels (e.g. competition, intraguild predation) have similar effects is less clear. Ants and spiders are abundant in vegetation and consume similar arthropod prey (occasionally each other) and plant exudates, with ants generally showing competitive dominance over spiders. We tested whether ants could shape the trophic structure of tree-dwelling macroarthropod communities by offsetting increases in spider abundance with insect prey. We performed three surveys of the macroarthropod community of 97 trees from two sites in the savanna of Northern Amazonia. Together, ants and spiders represented 74% of the sampled individuals per tree. Insect prey abundance increased with tree crown volume and crown flower cover, consistent with bottom-up limitation. Likewise, both ants and spiders increased with insect prey abundance, with ant abundance also varying with tree species, suggesting reliance on both animal and plant resources. However, as predicted, the positive relationship between spider abundance and insect prey abundance disappeared as ant abundance increased. Our results suggest that agonistic interactions within trophic levels can strongly shape community structure and size by modifying bottom-up effects as much as interactions across trophic levels.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55564,"journal":{"name":"Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103955"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49895124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Insect pest predation by arthropods and birds in different land use types with varying woody vegetation composition in agroecosystems of central Oromia, Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亚奥罗米亚中部不同土地利用类型和不同木本植被组成的农业生态系统中节肢动物和鸟类对害虫的捕食
IF 1.8 4区 环境科学与生态学
Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology Pub Date : 2023-09-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2023.103954
Zerihun Tadesse , Sileshi Nemomissa , Debissa Lemessa
{"title":"Insect pest predation by arthropods and birds in different land use types with varying woody vegetation composition in agroecosystems of central Oromia, Ethiopia","authors":"Zerihun Tadesse ,&nbsp;Sileshi Nemomissa ,&nbsp;Debissa Lemessa","doi":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2023.103954","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Biological control by predators of insect pests is an important benefit of biodiversity, having a contribution to agricultural production. By preying on crop infesting insect pests, predatory arthropods and birds can provide an important ecosystem service. They support agricultural productivity, boosting crop yield and reducing demand for pesticides expense. Habitat quality of land use types, i.e., explained by vegetation cover, can impact the provision of ecosystem services thereby influencing the prevalence of the predators and their predation rates. In order to better understand the level of insect pest control service by predators, we conducted a field experiment to investigate levels of predation, using an attack on artificial caterpillars in response to land use types varied in vegetation cover. We found the attack rate by arthropods was more consistent across land use types than by birds, and the attack by birds was higher in modified land use types with sparse woody vegetation. Moreover, the attack rate for birds showed a decreasing tendency with increasing woody species richness, cover and stem density, while it showed less variation for arthropods. We conclude that biological control by birds is more effective in habitats with simplified vegetation cover than for arthropods in agricultural landscapes. Therefore, we recommend the prevalence of shade trees and small forest patches in agricultural landscapes for supporting the increased levels of insect pest control services provided by predatory birds and arthropods.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55564,"journal":{"name":"Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103954"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49876253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Among us: How to find an optimal clutch sex ratio when the clutch sex ratios of co-foundress wasps are not known beforehand? 在我们中间:如何在事先不知道联合创始人黄蜂的离合器性别比的情况下找到最佳的离合器性别比?
IF 1.8 4区 环境科学与生态学
Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology Pub Date : 2023-09-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2023.103950
Daniel Tirapeli Felício , Rodrigo Augusto Santinelo Pereira
{"title":"Among us: How to find an optimal clutch sex ratio when the clutch sex ratios of co-foundress wasps are not known beforehand?","authors":"Daniel Tirapeli Felício ,&nbsp;Rodrigo Augusto Santinelo Pereira","doi":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2023.103950","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A female-biased clutch sex ratio is selected under local mate competition since it reduces competition between male sibs and provides extra mating opportunities for sons. Theoretical models predict that the brood sex ratio of fig wasps becomes less female-biased as the number of wasps laying eggs in the same fig increases. Empirical data have demonstrated that pollinator females lay most of their male eggs first, followed by the female ones in an oviposition bout (males first rule). As oviposition sites are limited in the fig, the brood sex ratio is positively correlated with the number of wasps laying eggs. To understand the strategy of sex ratio adjustment of <em>Sycobia hodites</em>, a non-pollinating fig wasp associated with <em>Ficus benjamina,</em> we compared observed and simulated data. The female wasp starts oviposition shortly after landing on the fig. This process involves the insertion of the ovipositor through the fig surface and into the flower's ovary via the stigma/style. The brood sex ratio of <em>S. hodites</em> did not significantly correlate with the fig brood size. Brood simulations supported the notion that the sex ratio of <em>S. hodites</em> is automatically determined by the male-first rule, involving no control by the mothers. The simulation model best fitting empirical data considered that: (1) females lay few eggs per fig (six or less) and distribute their eggs among several figs, and (2) the probability of an egg producing a male wasp decreases with its position in the egg sequence. Empirical and simulated data showed a wide variation in both brood size and sex ratio, suggesting that selection for an optimal clutch sex ratio is possibly weak. We argue that when selective pressure for sex ratio adjustment is weak, evolution favors male polymorphism as a strategy to cope with mate competition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55564,"journal":{"name":"Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103950"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49876250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Plants are the drivers of geographic variation of floral odours in brood site pollination mutualisms: A case study of Ficus hirta 植物是繁殖地授粉互惠中花香地理变异的驱动因素:以Ficus hirta为例
IF 1.8 4区 环境科学与生态学
Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2023.103952
Xiaoxia Deng , Bruno Buatois , Yan-Qiong Peng , Hui Yu , Yufen Cheng , Xuejun Ge , Magali Proffit , Finn Kjellberg
{"title":"Plants are the drivers of geographic variation of floral odours in brood site pollination mutualisms: A case study of Ficus hirta","authors":"Xiaoxia Deng ,&nbsp;Bruno Buatois ,&nbsp;Yan-Qiong Peng ,&nbsp;Hui Yu ,&nbsp;Yufen Cheng ,&nbsp;Xuejun Ge ,&nbsp;Magali Proffit ,&nbsp;Finn Kjellberg","doi":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103952","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103952","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Plant odours are central for pollinator attraction. This is particularly true in obligate brood site pollination mutualisms. However, we know little about the evolution of olfactory signalling in these mutualisms. Here, we investigate geographic variation of floral odour in the obligate host-specific brood site pollination mutualism between <em>Ficus hirta</em> and its specialised pollinators. Floral scent samples from nine locations in China were collected using head-space adsorption and were analysed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. We evidence progressive geographic divergence of floral odours. The pattern of variation fits plant genetic structure for neutral genes but differs from pollinating insect structuring into species and populations. In our study system, the geographic variation of receptive floral odour presents a pattern that is not distinguishable from neutral drift. The variation is not canalised by the insects. We propose that this pattern characterises obligate brood site pollination mutualisms in which pollinators are host specific and dispersal of plant and insect is limited. Insects with their short generation times and large population sizes rapidly track any chance variation in host receptive inflorescence odours. Plants are the drivers and insects the followers. The source of the geographic variation in floral odours can be genetic or phenotypic in response to local conditions. Strict sense plant-insect co-evolution is not involved. In contrast, previous results on another <em>Ficus</em>-pollinating wasp association suggest that stabilising selection could be at work in more dispersive systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55564,"journal":{"name":"Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103952"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41833555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Nutrient cycling aspects as possible ecosystem functional indicators of successional stage in Semideciduous seasonal forest, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil 巴西里约热内卢州半落叶季节性森林演替阶段可能的生态系统功能指标的营养循环方面
IF 1.8 4区 环境科学与生态学
Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology Pub Date : 2023-08-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2023.103951
Rodrigo Camara de Souza , Marcos Gervasio Pereira , Deivid Lopes Machado , Luciano de Oliveira Toledo , Carlos Eduardo Gabriel Menezes , Gilsonley Lopes dos Santos , Fernando Silva Coutinho , Roni Fernandes Guareschi , Victória Maria Monteiro Mendonça
{"title":"Nutrient cycling aspects as possible ecosystem functional indicators of successional stage in Semideciduous seasonal forest, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil","authors":"Rodrigo Camara de Souza ,&nbsp;Marcos Gervasio Pereira ,&nbsp;Deivid Lopes Machado ,&nbsp;Luciano de Oliveira Toledo ,&nbsp;Carlos Eduardo Gabriel Menezes ,&nbsp;Gilsonley Lopes dos Santos ,&nbsp;Fernando Silva Coutinho ,&nbsp;Roni Fernandes Guareschi ,&nbsp;Victória Maria Monteiro Mendonça","doi":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103951","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103951","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Semideciduous Seasonal Forest is a phytophysiognomy of Atlantic Forest with high plant richness but low representativeness in few remnants areas in different successional stages. The assessment of the degree of conservation of those areas helps to indicate whether there is a need for taking strategies to favor forest succession. Thus, the aim of this study was to identify litterfall and its nutrient content, accumulated litter biomass on topsoil, leaf litter decomposition, and topsoil (0–10 cm) chemical attributes as possible indicators of successional stages in areas of Seasonally Semideciduous Forest. We collected available information in literature on CAPES Portal and Google Scholar (May/2021 to February/2022) for Pinheiral municipality, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which were evaluated by multivariate analysis. Accumulated litter biomass, nutrient content (N, P, K) in total litterfall, pH and P availability in topsoil, leaf litter decomposition constant, and half-life time of leaf litter were the most sensitive attributes to indicate the successional stage in the study area, according to Principal Component Analysis. This multivariate analysis indicated that areas in early successional stage were associated with higher values of leaves contribution, half-life of leaf litterfall, contents of Ca and K in total litterfall, whereas areas in middle successional stage were associated with higher values of pH, total organic carbon, exchangeable Ca<sup>2+</sup>, K<sup>+</sup>, and Mg<sup>+</sup>, sum of bases and cation exchange capacity, and lower values of extractable acidity and exchangeable Al<sup>3+</sup> in the topsoil. Areas in advanced stages of succession were associated to higher values of total litterfall and its nutrient content (N, K, Mg), accumulated litter biomass, available P in topsoil, and leaf litter decomposition constant. The Cluster multivariate analysis revealed that the areas in advanced successional stage presented high dissimilarity in relation to the areas in early and middle successional stage.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55564,"journal":{"name":"Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103951"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41695839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Coarse woody debris and litter layer exert differential roles in nursing soil fungal communities across a subalpine forest successional series 粗木屑和凋落物层在亚高山森林演替序列中对土壤真菌群落的护理作用存在差异
IF 1.8 4区 环境科学与生态学
Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology Pub Date : 2023-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2023.103948
Zhihui Wang , Fei Li , Jianfeng Hou , Xuqing Li , Rui Cao , Yurui Jiang , Yuchen Lu , Shuning Ma , Wanqin Yang
{"title":"Coarse woody debris and litter layer exert differential roles in nursing soil fungal communities across a subalpine forest successional series","authors":"Zhihui Wang ,&nbsp;Fei Li ,&nbsp;Jianfeng Hou ,&nbsp;Xuqing Li ,&nbsp;Rui Cao ,&nbsp;Yurui Jiang ,&nbsp;Yuchen Lu ,&nbsp;Shuning Ma ,&nbsp;Wanqin Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103948","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103948","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Coarse woody debris (CWD) and litter are important habitats and nutrient sources for soil fungi. However, the roles of CWD and litter in maintaining soil fungal community composition and function at different successional stages remain unknown. Therefore, we collected soils beneath the CWD and litter from a subalpine forest successional series: shrubs, deciduous broadleaf, broadleaf-conifer mixed, mid-succession coniferous, mature coniferous, and over-mature coniferous forests in the subalpine forest region. The diversity, composition, and functional guilds of the soil fungal communities beneath the CWD and litter layer were analyzed using ITS (Internal Transcribed Spacer) sequencing. The CWD significantly changed the composition and functional guilds of the soil fungal communities in the same successional series. However, there was no significant difference in the soil fungal alpha diversity between the two microhabitats at the same successional stage. Notably, the soil beneath the litter layer had more abundant plant pathogens and mycorrhizal fungi, whereas the soil beneath CWD was enriched mainly with saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal fungi. The relative abundance of plant pathogens and mycorrhizal fungi was significantly related to the soil pH and the CWD stock. In addition, soil nitrogen, carbon, and the C: N ratio were key driving factors for the taxonomic composition and functional guilds of the soil fungal community. In conclusion, CWD exerts critical functions in nursing soil fungal diversity and maintaining the structure and function of soil fungal community mainly due to CWD decomposes slowly, increases soil heterogeneity, and provides with microhabitats and substrates for fungi in a longer term.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55564,"journal":{"name":"Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103948"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41547316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The sticky hemiparasitic plant Parentucellia viscosa catches hostplant seeds that may provision its descendants 粘性半寄生植物粘圆管藻捕捉寄主植物的种子,这些种子可能为其后代提供食物
IF 1.8 4区 环境科学与生态学
Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology Pub Date : 2023-08-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2023.103949
Kazuo Yamazaki
{"title":"The sticky hemiparasitic plant Parentucellia viscosa catches hostplant seeds that may provision its descendants","authors":"Kazuo Yamazaki","doi":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103949","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103949","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In addition to physiological functions, sticky plant trichomes perform a variety of anti-herbivory functions, such as deterring invertebrate and mammalian herbivores, and attracting the natural predators of stuck arthropods by providing them with immobilized prey. However, since the adaptive value of sticky glands has only been studied in a small fraction of trichrome-bearing plant species, other functions of these structures may yet be discovered. Several hemiparasitic plants, which obtain nutrients by both photosynthesis and from the roots of other plants, bear dense glandular trichomes on their aboveground parts. Field observations of the alien hemiparasitic plant <em>Parentucellia viscosa</em> were conducted in central Japan. The plants colonized a sparsely vegetated riverbank and gradually increased in number over time. The glandular trichomes on the plants not only entrapped small insects, but also grass seeds. It is thus possible that various sticky hemiparasitic plants, including <em>P. viscosa</em>, may intercept and capture the dispersed seeds of other plants, ensuring that their own seeds germinate in the same vicinity as those of the dispersing hostplant seeds in the following season. In so doing, <em>P. viscosa</em> may provision future juvenile plants with potential hosts. This scenario may be restricted to the early colonizing phase on plantless areas of disturbed soil. The seed-intercepting function of the glandular trichomes may act in conjunction with direct and indirect anti-herbivore defenses, and lower the dispersal of seeds of wind-borne plants in the vicinity beyond the reach of this hemiparasite.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55564,"journal":{"name":"Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103949"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44946420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Pollinator attraction in the Ficus deltoidea complex: Varietal specificity in a fig wasp that likes to stay close to home 三角榕复合体中的传粉昆虫吸引力:喜欢呆在家附近的无花果黄蜂的不同特异性
IF 1.8 4区 环境科学与生态学
Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology Pub Date : 2023-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2023.103939
Siti Khairiyah Mohd Hatta , Rupert J. Quinnell , Stephen G. Compton
{"title":"Pollinator attraction in the Ficus deltoidea complex: Varietal specificity in a fig wasp that likes to stay close to home","authors":"Siti Khairiyah Mohd Hatta ,&nbsp;Rupert J. Quinnell ,&nbsp;Stephen G. Compton","doi":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103939","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103939","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Species boundaries are maintained by limitations on gene flow between taxa. In flowering plants pollinator specificity can strongly influence gene flow patterns and facilitate speciation. Fig trees are species rich and ecologically significant plants. It was once believed that each species had its own unique pollinator fig wasp, but numerous exceptions are now known. The dioecious <em>Ficus deltoidea</em> complex is distributed across southern South-East Asia with 13 recognised varieties of uncertain status, seven of which are found in Peninsular Malaysia. We investigated the host preferences of one of their <em>Blastophaga</em> pollinators, reared from the epiphytic <em>F. deltoidea</em> var. <em>angustifolia</em>. Our series of experimental manipulations using free-flying fig wasps and figs on host trees showed that male figs were preferred, that only their natal variety was attractive and that pollinators only dispersed from their natal trees if no suitable figs were present there. Fig wasps can only reproduce in male hosts, so preferred entry to male figs has clear advantages for them, as does their reluctance to disperse from natal trees. This behaviour is likely to reduce seed set on female plants, with potential consequences for host population dynamics. The extreme specificity of the <em>Blastophaga</em> sp. suggests gene flow between varieties of <em>F. deltoidea</em> is low or absent and that different varieties may be different biological species.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55564,"journal":{"name":"Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology","volume":"121 ","pages":"Article 103939"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44542013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Environmental predictors affect α- and β-diversity of tropical bromeliad macroinvertebrates 环境因子影响热带凤梨科大型无脊椎动物α-和β-多样性
IF 1.8 4区 环境科学与生态学
Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2023.103911
Túlio Paiva Chaves , Erminda da Conceição Guerreiro Couto , José Carlos Morante-Filho , Maíra Benchimol
{"title":"Environmental predictors affect α- and β-diversity of tropical bromeliad macroinvertebrates","authors":"Túlio Paiva Chaves ,&nbsp;Erminda da Conceição Guerreiro Couto ,&nbsp;José Carlos Morante-Filho ,&nbsp;Maíra Benchimol","doi":"10.1016/j.actao.2023.103911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2023.103911","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We tested the hypothesis that abiotic predictors, both influence α and β-diversity of macroinvertebrate communities in the phytotelmata of the terrestrial bromeliad, <em>Vriesea philippocoburgii</em>. Macroinvertebrates were sampled in 58 bromeliads in a <em>restinga</em> in Brazil and estimated both the α and β-diversity in each bromeliad, and then partitioning them into nestedness and turnover. We then used Generalized Linear Models and partial Mantel tests to identify which environmental factors predict these diversity components for the macroinvertebrate communities. The size of the plant positively influenced α-diversity, whereas light intensity strongly influenced β-diversity. Both components were influenced by organic matter. Plants exhibiting large differences in values of organic matter and light intensity had different macroinvertebrate communities. Furthermore, bromeliad systems exhibit high β-diversity values governed by turnover. Our findings demonstrate the importance of considering α and β-diversities in studies that assess the diversity patterns of aquatic macroinvertebrates and suggest that environmental changes that modify the structure of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities could have impacts on ecosystem processes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":55564,"journal":{"name":"Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology","volume":"119 ","pages":"Article 103911"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49878548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Effects of road and woodland type on the invasibility of woodlands invaded by Lantana camara in southern Africa 道路和林地类型对南非马缨丹入侵林地入侵能力的影响
IF 1.8 4区 环境科学与生态学
Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2023.103912
Katherine Shiri, Donald Mlambo, Lloyd Mutungwazi
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