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Community-based processes behind species richness gradients: contrasting abundance–extinction dynamics and sampling effects in areas of low and high productivity

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  • المؤلفون: Carnicer, Jofre; Brotons, Lluís; Sol, Daniel; Jordano, Pedro
  • نوع التسجيلة:
    Electronic Resource
  • الدخول الالكتروني :
    http://hdl.handle.net/10261/38464
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00324.x/pdf
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00324.x/pdf
  • معلومة اضافية
    • Publisher Information:
      Blackwell Publishing 2007-11
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Aim To consider the role of local colonization and extinction rates in explaining the generation and maintenance of species richness gradients at the regional scale. Location A Mediterranean biome (oak forests, deciduous forests, shrublands, pinewoods, firwoods, alpine heathlands, crops) in Catalonia, Spain. Methods We analysed the relative importance of direct and indirect effects of community size in explaining species richness gradients. Direct sampling effects of community size on species richness are predicted by Hubbell’s neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography. The greater the number of individuals in a locality, the greater the number of species expected by random direct sampling effects. Indirect effects are predicted by the abundance–extinction hypothesis, which states that in more productive sites increased population densities and reduced extinction rates may lead to high species richness. The study system was an altitudinal gradient of forest bird species richness. Results We found significant support for the existence of both direct and indirect effects of community size in species richness. Thus, both the neutral and the abundance–extinction hypotheses were supported for the altitudinal species rich- ness gradient of forest birds in Catalonia. However, these mechanisms seem to drive variation in species richness only in low-productivity areas; in high-productivity areas, species richness was uncorrelated with community size and productivity measures.
    • الموضوع:
      Altitudinal gradients; Birds; extinction rate; Neutral theory; sampling, species richness; artículo
    • Availability:
      Open access content. Open access content
      openAccess
    • Note:
      English
    • Other Numbers:
      CTK oai:digital.csic.es:10261/38464
      Global Ecology and Biogeography, (2007) 16, 709–719
      10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00324.x
      1103371161
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      CSIC
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    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsoai.on1103371161
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