scholarly journals Phylogenetic patterns of rarity in a regional species pool of tropical woody plants

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 1043-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Isabel Loza ◽  
Iván Jiménez ◽  
Peter M. Jørgensen ◽  
Gabriel Arellano ◽  
Manuel J. Macía ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Woody Plants ◽  
Species Pool ◽  
Regional Species Pool ◽  
Tropical Woody Plants

scholarly journals Diversity of functional traits of fleshy fruits in a species-rich Atlantic rain forest

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro Galetti ◽  
Marco Aurélio Pizo ◽  
Leonor Patrícia Cerdeira Morellato
Keyword(s):  
Rain Forest ◽  
Woody Plants ◽  
Atlantic Rain Forest ◽  
Fruit Traits ◽  
Fruit Morphology ◽  
Se Brazil ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Tropical Woody Plants ◽  
Plant Families ◽  
Chemical Traits

Production of vertebrate-dispersed fruits is the most common strategy of tropical woody plants to disperse their seeds. Few studies have documented community-wide variation of fruit morphology and chemistry of vertebrate-dispersed fruits in species-rich tropical communities. We examined the functional diversity of fruit morphological and chemical traits of 186 species representing 57 plant families in an undisturbed lowland plant community in the Atlantic rain forest of SE, Brazil. We were particularly interested in associating morphological and chemical fruit traits to their main seed dispersers, either birds, mammals or 'mixed' (i.e. fruits eaten by birds and mammals). The morphological and chemical traits of fruits at the study site generally resemble the patterns observed in fruits worldwide. Bird fruits tend to be smaller than mammal fruits, being colored black or red, whereas mammal fruits are often yellow or green. Mammal fruits are more variable than bird fruits in relation to morphological traits, while the reverse is true for chemical traits. Mixed fruits resemble bird fruits in the patterns of variation of morphological and chemical traits, suggesting that they are primarily bird-dispersed fruits that are also exploited by mammals. Mixed fruits are common in tropical forests, and represent an excellent opportunity to contrast the effectiveness of different functional groups of frugivores dispersing the same plant species.

scholarly journals Species ethnobotanical values rather than regional species pool determine plant diversity in agroforestry systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel K. N’Woueni ◽  
Orou G. Gaoue
Keyword(s):  
Species Diversity ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Agroforestry Systems ◽  
Natural Vegetation ◽  
Species Pool ◽  
Higher Plant ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Regional Species Pool

AbstractThe conversion of natural systems into farms and agroecosystems is the main cause of biodiversity loss. In human-dominated landscapes, understanding the interactions between agroforestry systems and adjacent natural vegetation is fundamental to developing sustainable agricultural systems. Species can move between these two systems with natural systems providing the regional pool of species that shape the agricultural values and conservation value of the agroforestry systems. We investigated the influence of neighboring natural habitats on traditional agroforestry systems in the buffer zone of Pendjari Biosphere Reserve in Benin to understand the contribution of regional processes on the quality of agroforestry systems. We expected that agroforestry parklands adjacent to natural vegetation with high species diversity will also have higher plant species diversity. We found no similarity in plant species composition between agroforestry systems and adjacent natural habitats. A small proportion of species in adjacent natural habitats were found in agroforestry systems. The proportion of shared species was not significantly influenced by plant diversity in adjacent natural habitats or the distance from the agroforestry systems to the natural adjacent habitat. However, plant diversity in agroforestry systems was strongly associated with site ethnobotanical values indicating that farmers act as a supplemental but severe environmental filter of the regional species pool. Our study suggests that promoting the plantation of plants with high ethnobotanical use-value is a potentially viable strategy for sustainable agriculture and ecological restoration in Biosphere reserves.

Community assembly and species traits

2019 ◽  
pp. 231-246
Author(s):  
Gary G. Mittelbach ◽  
Brian J. McGill
Keyword(s):  
Functional Traits ◽  
Community Assembly ◽  
Species Traits ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Species Pool ◽  
Environmental Filters ◽  
Abiotic Environment ◽  
Local Site ◽  
Powerful Approach ◽  
Regional Species Pool

There is perhaps no more fundamental question in ecology than what determines the number and kinds of species found in a community and their relative abundances. This chapter lays out a powerful approach to answering this question, based on the concepts of a regional species pool and environmental filters. The species pool is the set of species that could potentially colonize a local site or community. Of these potential colonists, some species are limited in their ability to disperse to site, some are limited by their ability to survive the abiotic environment, and some are limited by their interactions with other species. These “filters” act individually or in concert, and the functional traits of species determine their success in passing through these filters to colonize a local site. There is growing empirical evidence that both abiotic and biotic processes select for specific functional traits. Focusing on the functional traits of species may lead to rules of community assembly that are general and help unify a variety of more specific theories.

Can long-distance dispersal shape the local and regional species pool?

2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Zobel ◽  
Merit Otsus ◽  
Kai Rünk ◽  
Jaan Liira
Keyword(s):  
Species Pool ◽  
Long Distance Dispersal ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Regional Species Pool

scholarly journals Different Effects of Regional Species Pool on Plant Diversity between Forest and Grassland Biomes in Arid Northwest China

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. e0131982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liping Li ◽  
Yining Liu ◽  
Xiangping Wang ◽  
Jingyun Fang ◽  
Qingchun Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Plant Diversity ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Species Pool ◽  
Regional Species Pool ◽  
Arid Northwest China

scholarly journals Predicting climate change effects on marine biodiversity: comparison of recent and fossil molluscan death assemblages

2002 ◽  
Vol 82 (5) ◽  
pp. 847-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.M. Warwick ◽  
S.M. Turk
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Species Composition ◽  
Sandy Beach ◽  
Species Pool ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Taxonomic Distinctness ◽  
Habitat Types ◽  
Late Pliocene ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Regional Species Pool

The death assemblage of molluscs (gastropods and bivalves) from the sandy beach at Harlyn Bay, north Cornwall is shown to be fully representative of the biodiversity of the regional species pool from all habitat types. The biodiversity measures used are average taxonomic distinctness (Δ+, the average degree to which species in an assemblage are related to each other) and variation in taxonomic distinctness (Λ+, the evenness of the spread of taxa across the taxonomic spectrum). A late Pliocene fossil assemblage of molluscs from St Erth Pits, north Cornwall, UK, is also not significantly different in biodiversity, in these terms, from the present-day regional species pool. The climate in the late Pliocene was similar to the present-day Mediterranean, suggesting that predicted changes in climate, by the end of this century, will not affect molluscan biodiversity, although the species composition will undoubtedly change.

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