Patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity of termites along a tropical elevational gradient

Biotropica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cássio A. Nunes ◽  
André V. Quintino ◽  
Reginaldo Constantino ◽  
Daniel Negreiros ◽  
Ronaldo Reis Júnior ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Elevational Gradient

scholarly journals Species Richness, Abundance and Functional Diversity of a Bat Community along an Elevational Gradient in the Espinhaço Mountain Range, Southeastern Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo De Rodrigues Coelho ◽  
Adriano Pereira Paglia ◽  
Arleu Barbosa Viana-Junior ◽  
Luiz A. Dolabela Falcão ◽  
Guilherme B. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Species Richness ◽  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Southeastern Brazil ◽  
Mountain Range

The effect of environmental filtering on variation in functional diversity along a tropical elevational gradient

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 973-983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Ding ◽  
Runguo Zang ◽  
Xinghui Lu ◽  
Jihong Huang ◽  
Yue Xu
Keyword(s):  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Environmental Filtering ◽  
Elevational Gradient

scholarly journals Do forest over- and understory respond to the same environmental variables when viewed at the taxonomic and trait level?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenny Helsen ◽  
Yeng-Chen Shen ◽  
Tsung-Yi Lin ◽  
Chien-Fan Chen ◽  
Chu-Mei Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Environmental Filtering ◽  
Soil Nutrient ◽  
Woody Species ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Functional Trait ◽  
Environmental Drivers ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Diversity Patterns ◽  
Soil Variation

While the relative importance of climate filtering is known to be higher for woody species assemblages than herbaceous assemblage, it remains largely unexplored whether this pattern is also reflected between the woody overstory and herbaceous understory of forests. While climatic variation will be more buffered by the tree layer, the understory might also respond more to small-scale soil variation, next to experiencing additional environmental filtering due to the overstory's effects on light and litter quality. For (sub)tropical forests, the understory often contains a high proportion of fern and lycophyte species, for which environmental filtering is even less well understood. We explored the proportional importance of climate proxies and soil variation on the species, functional trait and (functional) diversity patterns of both the forest overstory and fern and lycophyte understory along an elevational gradient from 850 to 2100 m a.s.l. in northern Taiwan. We selected nine functional traits expected to respond to soil nutrient or climatic stress for this study and furthermore verified whether they were positively related across vegetation layers, as expected when driven by similar environmental drivers. We found that climate was a proportionally more important predictor than soil for the species composition of both vegetation layers and trait composition of the understory. The stronger than expected proportional effect of climate for the understory was likely due to fern and lycophytes' higher vulnerability to drought, while the high importance of soil for the overstory seemed driven by deciduous species. The environmental drivers affected different response traits in both vegetation layers, however, which together with additional overstory effects on understory traits, resulted in a strong disconnection of community-level trait values across layers. Interestingly, species and functional diversity patterns could be almost exclusively explained by climate effects for both vegetational layers, with the exception of understory species richness. This study illustrates that environmental filtering can differentially affect species, trait and diversity patterns and can be highly divergent for forest overstory and understory vegetation, and should consequently not be extrapolated across vegetation layers or between composition and diversity patterns.

scholarly journals Projecting consequences of global warming for the functional diversity of fleshy‐fruited plants and frugivorous birds along a tropical elevational gradient

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 1362-1374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Nowak ◽  
W. Daniel Kissling ◽  
Irene M. A. Bender ◽  
D. Matthias Dehling ◽  
Till Töpfer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Frugivorous Birds

scholarly journals Trait variation and functional diversity maintenance of understory herbaceous species coexisting along an elevational gradient in Yulong Mountain, Southwest China

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 303-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yahuang Luo ◽  
Jie Liu ◽  
Shaolin Tan ◽  
Marc W. Cadotte ◽  
Kun Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Herbaceous Species ◽  
Trait Variation ◽  
Diversity Maintenance ◽  
Yulong Mountain

Divergent responses of functional diversity to an elevational gradient for vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Asplund ◽  
Kristel van Zuijlen ◽  
Ruben Erik Roos ◽  
Tone Birkemoe ◽  
Kari Klanderud ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Elevational Gradient

scholarly journals Plant and animal functional diversity drive mutualistic network assembly across an elevational gradient

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Albrecht ◽  
Alice Classen ◽  
Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt ◽  
Antonia Mayr ◽  
Neduvoto P. Mollel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Elevational Gradient

scholarly journals Projected impacts of climate change on functional diversity of frugivorous birds along a tropical elevational gradient

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene M. A. Bender ◽  
W. Daniel Kissling ◽  
Katrin Böhning-Gaese ◽  
Isabell Hensen ◽  
Ingolf Kühn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Seed Dispersal ◽  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Frugivorous Birds ◽  
Bird Assemblages ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
Frugivorous Bird ◽  
Functional Dispersion

AbstractClimate change forces many species to move their ranges to higher latitudes or elevations. Resulting immigration or emigration of species might lead to functional changes, e.g., in the trait distribution and composition of ecological assemblages. Here, we combined approaches from biogeography (species distribution models; SDMs) and community ecology (functional diversity) to investigate potential effects of climate-driven range changes on frugivorous bird assemblages along a 3000 m elevational gradient in the tropical Andes. We used SDMs to model current and projected future occurrence probabilities of frugivorous bird species from the lowlands to the tree line. SDM-derived probabilities of occurrence were combined with traits relevant for seed dispersal of fleshy-fruited plants to calculate functional dispersion (FDis; a measure of functional diversity) for current and future bird assemblages. Comparisons of FDis between current and projected future assemblages showed consistent results across four dispersal scenarios, five climate models and two representative concentration pathways. Projections indicated a decrease of FDis in the lowlands, an increase of FDis at lower mid-elevations and little changes at high elevations. This suggests that functional dispersion responds differently to global warming at different elevational levels, likely modifying avian seed dispersal functions and plant regeneration in forest ecosystems along tropical mountains.

Termite functional diversity along an elevational gradient in the Cerrado of Mato Grosso do Sul

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hélida F. Cunha ◽  
Diogo A. Costa ◽  
Ana Paula T. Silva ◽  
José Nicacio ◽  
Alfredo R. Abot
Keyword(s):  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Elevational Gradient ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Mato Grosso Do Sul
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