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Mineral Licks: An Overlooked Model System for Species Interactions

IF 1.8 3区环境科学与生态学

Biotropica Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1111/btp.70003

Brian M. Griffiths, David C. Luther, Henry S. Pollock

{"title":"Mineral Licks: An Overlooked Model System for Species Interactions","authors":"Brian M. Griffiths, David C. Luther, Henry S. Pollock","doi":"10.1111/btp.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Mineral licks are deposits of minerals, salts, and/or clays that attract animals and serve as keystone resources in terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. Previous research on natural mineral licks has focused largely on characterizing the soil properties of the licks and describing the species that consume the minerals. Yet mineral licks are also hubs of species interactions, where predators hunt prey, diseases are spread, and social information is transferred. Here, we argue that mineral licks are an overlooked model system with massive potential for both characterizing biodiversity and studying species interactions. We review the current state of knowledge and identify gaps related to predator–prey interactions, disease transfer, social information, and population dynamics and mineral licks. In each area, we propose future research directions, including how to leverage emerging technologies to more fully understand the ecology of mineral licks. We highlight that new conservation technologies may be particularly powerful in studying species at mineral licks, including telemetry and tracking, LiDAR, environmental DNA, and camera traps. We also note that experimental approaches to mineral licks are currently severely underutilized in ecosystems around the world and offer enormous potential in understanding species interactions in our four highlighted areas. This synthesis provides a framework for testing hypotheses about the ecological importance of mineral licks as a keystone resource and shifts the focus to include more emphasis on current knowledge gaps.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Partial recovery of primary rainforest bird communities in Amazonian secondary forests

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Biotropica Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1111/btp.13415

Philip C Stouffer, Cameron L. Rutt

{"title":"Partial recovery of primary rainforest bird communities in Amazonian secondary forests","authors":"Philip C Stouffer, Cameron L. Rutt","doi":"10.1111/btp.13415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13415","url":null,"abstract":"Loss of primary rainforest imperils species, communities, and ecosystem services. Secondary forests play a role in supporting primary forest species, making it important to assess how variation in landscape composition, sample area, and secondary forest age influence their value for maintaining biodiversity. We sampled bird communities in three 16-ha sites in 31-36-year-old secondary forest (SF) and three adjacent primary forest (PF) sites at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project near Manaus, Brazil. SF sites were surrounded by vast, minimally broken PF. Spot-map surveys revealed 204 species, with 48 found only in PF (SF estimate 117–144 species/site, PF estimate 163–180). SF communities were distinct, but composed almost entirely of PF species and overlapped PF communities in functional attributes. Cavity-nesting species were slightly underrepresented in SF. Important differences in SF included much reduced abundance of canopy, terrestrial, and insectivorous species. Vegetation structure may limit canopy species: SF had a homogeneous canopy of 20–25 m, >10 m lower than the heterogeneous PF canopy. Sensitivity of terrestrial insectivores conforms to an expected pattern, perhaps exacerbated by a lack of colonists for these regionally declining species. Relatively better recovery of midstory and understory species does not align with some studies, perhaps because our landscape facilitated their colonization. In this system, SF bird communities appear to be recovering, with frugivores, nectarivores, and granivores (including game species) already well matched to PF. Complete recovery may be slowed not just by SF habitat suitability, but also by demographic processes in PF that limit availability of colonists.Abstract in Portuguese is available with online material.","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Seeing the Savanna Through the Trees: Vegetation Structure, Composition and Function Along a Forest-Savanna Boundary in Cambodia

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Biotropica Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1111/btp.70000

Naomi Schwartz, Jennifer S. Powers, Leland K. Werden, Winslow D. Hansen, Aing Chhengngunn, Luch Phem, Mia Fajeau, Chhang Phourin, Seab Kimsrim, Sokh Heng

{"title":"Seeing the Savanna Through the Trees: Vegetation Structure, Composition and Function Along a Forest-Savanna Boundary in Cambodia","authors":"Naomi Schwartz, Jennifer S. Powers, Leland K. Werden, Winslow D. Hansen, Aing Chhengngunn, Luch Phem, Mia Fajeau, Chhang Phourin, Seab Kimsrim, Sokh Heng","doi":"10.1111/btp.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70000","url":null,"abstract":"In the seasonally dry landscapes of continental Southeast Asia, deciduous dipterocarp vegetation (DDF) and semi-evergreen forests (SEF) form patchy landscape mosaics, with abrupt boundaries between them. DDF resembles savanna, with an open canopy and a continuous grassy ground layer, while SEF lacks grass and has high tree cover and a closed canopy. Alternative hypotheses suggest that these distinct vegetation types are alternative stable states maintained by fire-vegetation feedbacks, that differences in edaphic conditions across landscapes explain their distributions, and/or that DDF are degraded or early successional forests whose distribution is determined by legacies of anthropogenic disturbance. Here, we compare structure, composition, and functional traits of woody vegetation across DDF-SEF boundaries, and ask whether differences across vegetation types are associated with edaphic factors or fire history. We found major differences in vegetation structure and species composition across DDF and SEF, with few shared species across vegetation types. Dominant DDF tree species were not found in SEF, suggesting that DDF represents a distinct vegetation community, rather than early successional or degraded forest. Compared to SEF species, DDF species had lower specific leaf area and higher bark thickness, a key trait associated with fire tolerance. Soil texture and fertility did not differ across vegetation types. Together, these findings suggest that fire, not edaphic factors, likely is the key driver of vegetation at DDF-SEF boundaries. Our results further support classifying and managing DDF as savanna. Conserving the unique biodiversity of DDF-SEF mosaic landscapes will require research to support evidence-based fire management.","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Recovery of lizard assembages 10 years after reduced-impact logging in central-eastern Amazonia

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Biotropica Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1111/btp.13400

Pedro Henrique Salomão Ganança, Clarissa Alves da Rosa, Albertina Pimentel Lima, Rafael de Fraga, Kelly Torralvo, Leandro Lacerda Giacomin, Amanda Frederico Mortati, Quêzia Leandro de Moura Guerreiro, Susan Aragón, William Ernest Magnusson

{"title":"Recovery of lizard assembages 10 years after reduced-impact logging in central-eastern Amazonia","authors":"Pedro Henrique Salomão Ganança, Clarissa Alves da Rosa, Albertina Pimentel Lima, Rafael de Fraga, Kelly Torralvo, Leandro Lacerda Giacomin, Amanda Frederico Mortati, Quêzia Leandro de Moura Guerreiro, Susan Aragón, William Ernest Magnusson","doi":"10.1111/btp.13400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13400","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding changes in species composition due to human-induced habitat modification and environmental filtering is essential for formulating effective conservation strategies. Species turnover resulting from reduced-impact logging (RIL) is expected in the short term, generally with species adapted to open areas replacing those dependent on old-growth forest. However, little is known about how RIL activities influence assemblages after the perturbation ceased. We sampled lizards across an edaphic and vegetation-structure gradient in 64 plots in the Brazilian Amazon to test the hypothesis that changes in assemblage composition and proportion of heliothermic species are due to canopy openness resulting from ceased RIL activities and individual tree falls or to other environmental gradients. Contrary to expectations, canopy openness did not significantly affect the overall composition of lizard assemblages, but nearby unforested areas influenced assemblage composition, resulting in a higher proportion of heliothermic species. The composition of lizard assemblages was also significantly influenced by the distance to the nearest water body, vegetation height, and soil sand content. However, leaf litter height did not have a detectable impact on the composition of lizard assemblages. We conclude that short-term changes in species composition due to habitat modification by RIL do not persist in the long term after the perturbation ceases, and the assemblages may recover as vegetation regenerates. Although lizard species respond to spatial and temporal variation in environmental characteristics, we found evidence that lizard assemblages recover as reduced-impact logging (RIL) activities cease and vegetation regenerates.Abstract in Portuguese is available with online material.","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Leaf-Litter Depth, Not Canopy Openness, Mediates the Occurrence of an Invasive Shrub From the Forest Edge to Interior

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Biotropica Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1111/btp.70002

Hao Ran Lai, Kwek Yan Chong, Melissa Qi Yun Wong, Hugh Tiang Wah Tan, Darren Chong Jinn Yeo

{"title":"Leaf-Litter Depth, Not Canopy Openness, Mediates the Occurrence of an Invasive Shrub From the Forest Edge to Interior","authors":"Hao Ran Lai, Kwek Yan Chong, Melissa Qi Yun Wong, Hugh Tiang Wah Tan, Darren Chong Jinn Yeo","doi":"10.1111/btp.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70002","url":null,"abstract":"Continental tropical forests with intact canopies and densely shaded understories are often perceived to be particularly resistant to biological invasions, yet canopy disturbances leave them vulnerable to gap colonization by invasive plants. The Neotropical shrub, Miconia crenata, is an example of a successful invader in intact continental tropical forests but is generally well known to be restricted to forest trails and edges. However, existing studies that quantify the decline in M. crenata from forest edge to interior rarely compare the relative importance of direct edge effects with indirect edge effects mediated by processes that vary with distance from forest edge. To address this gap, we aim here to identify the most relevant processes influencing M. crenata invasion in the secondary tropical forests of Singapore. Using a path model on field observations collected using an adaptive cluster sampling methodology, we found that the occurrence of M. crenata did not change directly with distance from forest edge. Instead, the decreased occurrence of M. crenata in forest interiors was indirectly mediated by thicker leaf litter, which is detrimental to the small seeds of M. crenata. While there was a direct positive relationship between canopy openness and M. crenata occurrence, canopy openness was not a mediator for relationships with distance to forest edge. These findings suggest that environmental filtering of germinants is an important determinant of the invasion success of M. crenata, and that litter retention could be an effective management against M. crenata even in smaller fragments where canopy gaps have extended far into the forest interior.","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Climate Heterogeneity Shapes the Diversity of Specialist Beetle Species Across Mountains in Malaysia

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Biotropica Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1111/btp.70001

Muneeb M. Musthafa, Uriel Jeshua Sánchez-Reyes, Fauziah Abdullah, Subha Bhassu, Enrico Ruzzier

{"title":"Climate Heterogeneity Shapes the Diversity of Specialist Beetle Species Across Mountains in Malaysia","authors":"Muneeb M. Musthafa, Uriel Jeshua Sánchez-Reyes, Fauziah Abdullah, Subha Bhassu, Enrico Ruzzier","doi":"10.1111/btp.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 The importance of maintaining biodiversity is well recognized, although the impacts of the ongoing climate crisis on biodiversity are still poorly understood for many groups, including insects. Therefore, the objectives of this study are (1) to identify the climatic niche breadth of beetle species among nine different Malaysian mountains, (2) to characterize the role of environmental (climatic) factors in niche determination, and (3) to relate the climatic niche of the species to the mountain environmental heterogeneity. The Outlying Mean Index (OMI), which compares the multivariate distance between the average environmental conditions of a given area and the specific range of conditions in which each species occurs (marginality), was used to quantify the niche parameters. Among the 875 species, only 130 presented significant responses to the nine tested parameters, 113 of which were identified as specialists, whereas 17 were classified as generalists of the climate environment. The remaining 745 species were not related to the environmental variables under study. Mountains with more heterogeneous climates and greater climate variation between sampling sites or elevations had fewer specialist beetles. Conversely, mountains with more homogeneous climates had a greater number of specialist beetles.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 impact of host biogeography, ecology, evolutionary history, and architecture on the structure of rolled-leaf beetle assemblages of Costa Rican Zingiberales

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Biotropica Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1111/btp.13402

José Miguel Chaves-Fallas, Carlos García-Robledo, Mónica M. Carlsen, Orlando Vargas, Mónica Rojas-Gómez, Robert J. Marquis

{"title":"The impact of host biogeography, ecology, evolutionary history, and architecture on the structure of rolled-leaf beetle assemblages of Costa Rican Zingiberales","authors":"José Miguel Chaves-Fallas, Carlos García-Robledo, Mónica M. Carlsen, Orlando Vargas, Mónica Rojas-Gómez, Robert J. Marquis","doi":"10.1111/btp.13402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13402","url":null,"abstract":"Determining the factors affecting the structure of insect herbivore communities is a major challenge in ecology. Previous research demonstrated that plant defenses determine plant-herbivore associations. However, non-defensive variables may also explain why some plant species are associated with more diverse insect herbivore assemblages than others. Neotropical rolled-leaf beetles (Cephaloleia and Chelobasis) complete their life cycle inside the young rolled leaves of their host plants in the order Zingiberales. The diet breadth of each species in this assemblage is particularly well-known at our study site, La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. This study focused on the following non-defensive variables: host plant elevational and geographic range size, soil type, habitat, local abundance, plant size, and leaf size. Because plant characteristics among closely related plants are not independent, we analyzed these variables in a phylogenetic context. We detected a positive effect of leaf width on rolled-leaf beetle species richness (explaining 55% of the variation), abundance (28% of the variation and 57% when habitat is included in the model), diversity (37% of the variation), and community structure (6% of the variation, and 21%–26% when taxonomic family is included in the model). Our study demonstrates that Zingiberales leaf width influences positively rolled-leaf beetle species richness, abundance, and diversity. This effect varies among plant families. Our study shows that plant architecture plays an important role in structuring insect herbivore assemblages in Zingiberales. Our results highlight the importance of including variables beyond plant defenses to understand the ecology and evolution of plant-herbivore interactions.","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Ecotones Shape Ground-Dwelling Mammal and Bird Diversity Along a Habitat Gradient in the Southern Coastal Dry Forests of Vietnam

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Biotropica Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1111/btp.13422

An Nguyen, Andrew Tilker, Quy Tan Le, Minh Nguyen, Van Tiep Tran, Hong Truong Luu, Van Bang Tran, Duy Le, Luisa Pflumm, Jürgen Niedballa, Rahel Sollmann, Andreas Wilting

{"title":"Ecotones Shape Ground-Dwelling Mammal and Bird Diversity Along a Habitat Gradient in the Southern Coastal Dry Forests of Vietnam","authors":"An Nguyen, Andrew Tilker, Quy Tan Le, Minh Nguyen, Van Tiep Tran, Hong Truong Luu, Van Bang Tran, Duy Le, Luisa Pflumm, Jürgen Niedballa, Rahel Sollmann, Andreas Wilting","doi":"10.1111/btp.13422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13422","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding biodiversity patterns is essential for ecology and conservation. Globally, conservation efforts often prioritize tropical rainforests due to their high species richness. At the regional scale, the same is true in the Greater Annamites ecoregion of Vietnam and Laos, where conservation efforts have largely focused on broadleaf wet evergreen forest, despite the fact that other habitats remain threatened. One such habitat is the coastal dry forest landscape in southern Vietnam, which has received little conservation focus despite the fact that its forested areas have been severely reduced. Nui Chua National Park (NP) in southern Vietnam harbors one of the few remaining sizable areas of dry coastal forest. In this study, we used camera-trap data and a community Royle-Nichols model to explore community structure of ground-dwelling mammal and birds along a complex habitat gradient in Nui Chua NP. We first investigated species associations among three habitat types: dry forest, semi-dry forest, and broadleaf wet evergreen forest. We then used occupancy-based diversity profiles to assess diversity in these three habitats. Overall species diversity tended to be highest in the transitional semi-dry forest ecotone, which supported species from both dry and evergreen forests. Notably, the semi-dry forest also had the highest occupancies for several endemic and threatened species. Our findings highlight the importance of the semi-dry forest for conservation in the broader coastal dry forest landscape. We emphasize the need for fine-scale biodiversity assessments to inform conservation strategies, especially in habitats that may be overlooked by broader-scale conservation strategies.","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.13422","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Responses to water limitation are independent of light for saplings of a seasonally dry tropical forest

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Biotropica Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1111/btp.13404

Ron Sunny, Anirban Guha, Asmi Jezeera, Kavya Mohan N, Neha Mohanbabu, Deepak Barua

{"title":"Responses to water limitation are independent of light for saplings of a seasonally dry tropical forest","authors":"Ron Sunny, Anirban Guha, Asmi Jezeera, Kavya Mohan N, Neha Mohanbabu, Deepak Barua","doi":"10.1111/btp.13404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13404","url":null,"abstract":"Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) experience large spatial and temporal variation in water and light availability. The effect of heterogeneity in these limiting resources on species water use, physiology, and growth is still not well understood. We used a shade-house experiment to manipulate light and water availability and examine plant water uptake, leaf-level physiology, and sapling growth in four co-occurring SDTF species belonging to both evergreen and deciduous plant functional types. Water uptake varied dramatically among species with a fivefold difference in maximum whole-plant transpiration (WPT). While species differed in how WPT, leaf physiology, and growth responded to shade, there were no differences among species, or between evergreen and deciduous functional types, in responses to limited water. Importantly, responses to shade were independent of water availability in all four species. Changes in WPT in response to limited light and water were largely congruent with changes in leaf physiology and growth. However, the magnitude of change in leaf physiology was largely driven by light, while changes in WPT and growth were driven by water availability. Thus, whole-plant water uptake may be a better indicator of plant growth responses in these species. Overall, these results suggest that responses to light and water limitation may be independent of each other, allowing species in SDTFs to explore a wide range of combinations of light and water responses to adapt to heterogeneous light and water niches.","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Bioacoustic Assessment of Mangrove Health: Influence of Habitat Characteristics on Bird Richness

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Biotropica Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1111/btp.13427

Al-Kautsar Hidayanto Abdul Rahim, Chong Leong Puan, Amera Natasha Mah Muhammad Adam Mah, Mohamed Zakaria, Nurhaidah Jamaludin, Nurul Syafiqa Abdul Wahaf

{"title":"Bioacoustic Assessment of Mangrove Health: Influence of Habitat Characteristics on Bird Richness","authors":"Al-Kautsar Hidayanto Abdul Rahim, Chong Leong Puan, Amera Natasha Mah Muhammad Adam Mah, Mohamed Zakaria, Nurhaidah Jamaludin, Nurul Syafiqa Abdul Wahaf","doi":"10.1111/btp.13427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.13427","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 Mangroves play a vital role in coastal ecosystems, providing numerous ecosystem functions and services as well as supporting high levels of biodiversity. Using a bioacoustic approach, we assessed the influence of mangrove habitat variables on birds in four sites in Peninsular Malaysia. We set up 20 bioacoustic audio recorders across Telok Gong, Kapar Tambahan, Banjar Utara Forest Reserves, and Kuala Selangor Nature Park. The recorders operated for 30 min every hour over a period of 24 h for seven consecutive days. We assessed the habitat characteristics at each site by establishing one 20 m × 20 m quadrat at each of the recording points. Generalized linear mixed models indicated that the percentage of canopy cover, average tree height, forest age, number of saplings, forest size, and ground cover positively influenced bird richness. Our findings highlight the importance of maintaining these habitat features to support higher bird species richness in mangroves. This study demonstrated the possible use of bioacoustics to assess mangrove restoration recovery progress via birds as bioindicators.\u0000 Abstract in Malay is available with online material.\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8982,"journal":{"name":"Biotropica","volume":"57 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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