학술논문
Mechanisms underpinning community stability along a latitudinal gradient: Insights from a niche-based approach.
Document Type
Academic Journal
Author
Evans LC; School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AH, UK.; Melero Y; School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AH, UK.; CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain.; Schmucki R; UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Biodiversity, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK.; Boersch-Supan PH; British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, IP24 2PU, UK.; Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611, USA.; Brotons L; CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain.; InForest Jru (CTFC-CREAF), Solsona, 25280, Spain.; CSIC, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallés, Spain.; Fontaine C; Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, CESCO, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle - CNRS - Sorbonne Université, UMR7204, CP135, 43 Rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France.; Jiguet F; Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la Conservation, CESCO, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle - CNRS - Sorbonne Université, UMR7204, CP135, 43 Rue Buffon, 75005, Paris, France.; Kuussaari M; Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Biodiversity Centre, Latokartanonkaari 11, FI-00790, Helsinki, Finland.; Massimino D; British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, IP24 2PU, UK.; Robinson RA; British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, IP24 2PU, UK.; Roy DB; UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Biodiversity, Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Wallingford, OX10 8BB, UK.; Schweiger O; Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Halle, Germany.; iDiv, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.; Settele J; iDiv, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.; Department of Conservation Biology & Social-Ecological Systems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Halle, Germany.; Stefanescu C; Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers, Francesc Macià, 51, 08402, Granollers, Spain.; van Turnhout CAM; Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.; Department of Animal Ecology & Ecophysiology, Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences (RIBES), Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.; Oliver TH; School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6AH, UK.
Source
Publisher: Blackwell Pub Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 9888746 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1365-2486 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 13541013 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Glob Chang Biol Subsets: MEDLINE
Subject
Language
English
Abstract
At large scales, the mechanisms underpinning stability in natural communities may vary in importance due to changes in species composition, mean abundance, and species richness. Here we link species characteristics (niche positions) and community characteristics (richness and abundance) to evaluate the importance of stability mechanisms in 156 butterfly communities monitored across three European countries and spanning five bioclimatic regions. We construct niche-based hierarchical structural Bayesian models to explain first differences in abundance, population stability, and species richness between the countries, and then explore how these factors impact community stability both directly and indirectly (via synchrony and population stability). Species richness was partially explained by the position of a site relative to the niches of the species pool, and species near the centre of their niche had higher average population stability. The differences in mean abundance, population stability, and species richness then influenced how much variation in community stability they explained across the countries. We found, using variance partitioning, that community stability in Finnish communities was most influenced by community abundance, whereas this aspect was unimportant in Spain with species synchrony explaining most variation; the UK was somewhat intermediate with both factors explaining variation. Across all countries, the diversity-stability relationship was indirect with species richness reducing synchrony which increased community stability, with no direct effects of species richness. Our results suggest that in natural communities, biogeographical variation observed in key drivers of stability, such as population abundance and species richness, leads to community stability being limited by different factors and that this can partially be explained due to the niche characteristics of the European butterfly assemblage.
(© 2023 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
(© 2023 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)