Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly
Anthropogenic activities have reshaped biodiversity on islands worldwide. However, it remains unclear how island attributes and land-use change interactively shape multiple facets of island biodiversity through community assembly processes. To answer this, we conducted bird surveys in various land-u...
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crroyalsociety:10.1098/rspb.2023.2245 2024-06-02T08:05:25+00:00 Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly Zhao, Yuhao Mendenhall, Chase D. Matthews, Thomas J. Wang, Duorun Li, Wande Liu, Xiangxu Tang, Shupei Han, Peng Wei, Guangpeng Kang, Yi Wu, Chenxiao Wang, Rui Zeng, Di Frishkoff, Luke O. Si, Xingfeng Ministry of Natural Resources Program for Professor of Special Appointment National Nature Science Foundation of China Technology Innovation Center for Land Spatial Eco-restoration 2024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2245 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2023.2245 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rspb.2023.2245 en eng The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/-/media/journals/author/Licence-to-Publish-20062019-final.pdf https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences volume 291, issue 2018 ISSN 0962-8452 1471-2954 journal-article 2024 crroyalsociety https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2245 2024-05-07T14:16:39Z Anthropogenic activities have reshaped biodiversity on islands worldwide. However, it remains unclear how island attributes and land-use change interactively shape multiple facets of island biodiversity through community assembly processes. To answer this, we conducted bird surveys in various land-use types (mainly forest and farmland) using transects on 34 oceanic land-bridge islands in the largest archipelago of China. We found that bird species richness increased with island area and decreased with isolation, regardless of the intensity of land-use change. However, forest-dominated habitats exhibited lower richness than farmland-dominated habitats. Island bird assemblages generally comprised species that share more similar traits or evolutionary histories (i.e. functional and/or phylogenetic clustering) than expected if assemblages were randomly assembled. Contrary to our expectations, we observed that bird assemblages in forest-dominated habitats were more clustered on large and close islands, whereas assemblages in farmland-dominated habitats were more clustered on small islands. These contrasting results indicate that land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter the community assembly of birds on inhabited islands. Our findings emphasize the importance of incorporating human-modified habitats when examining the community assembly of island biota, and further suggest that agricultural landscapes on large islands may play essential roles in protecting countryside island biodiversity. Article in Journal/Newspaper Close Islands The Royal Society Close Islands ENVELOPE(144.550,144.550,-67.017,-67.017) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291 2018 |
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Anthropogenic activities have reshaped biodiversity on islands worldwide. However, it remains unclear how island attributes and land-use change interactively shape multiple facets of island biodiversity through community assembly processes. To answer this, we conducted bird surveys in various land-use types (mainly forest and farmland) using transects on 34 oceanic land-bridge islands in the largest archipelago of China. We found that bird species richness increased with island area and decreased with isolation, regardless of the intensity of land-use change. However, forest-dominated habitats exhibited lower richness than farmland-dominated habitats. Island bird assemblages generally comprised species that share more similar traits or evolutionary histories (i.e. functional and/or phylogenetic clustering) than expected if assemblages were randomly assembled. Contrary to our expectations, we observed that bird assemblages in forest-dominated habitats were more clustered on large and close islands, whereas assemblages in farmland-dominated habitats were more clustered on small islands. These contrasting results indicate that land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter the community assembly of birds on inhabited islands. Our findings emphasize the importance of incorporating human-modified habitats when examining the community assembly of island biota, and further suggest that agricultural landscapes on large islands may play essential roles in protecting countryside island biodiversity. |
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Ministry of Natural Resources Program for Professor of Special Appointment National Nature Science Foundation of China Technology Innovation Center for Land Spatial Eco-restoration |
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Zhao, Yuhao Mendenhall, Chase D. Matthews, Thomas J. Wang, Duorun Li, Wande Liu, Xiangxu Tang, Shupei Han, Peng Wei, Guangpeng Kang, Yi Wu, Chenxiao Wang, Rui Zeng, Di Frishkoff, Luke O. Si, Xingfeng |
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Zhao, Yuhao Mendenhall, Chase D. Matthews, Thomas J. Wang, Duorun Li, Wande Liu, Xiangxu Tang, Shupei Han, Peng Wei, Guangpeng Kang, Yi Wu, Chenxiao Wang, Rui Zeng, Di Frishkoff, Luke O. Si, Xingfeng Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly |
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Zhao, Yuhao Mendenhall, Chase D. Matthews, Thomas J. Wang, Duorun Li, Wande Liu, Xiangxu Tang, Shupei Han, Peng Wei, Guangpeng Kang, Yi Wu, Chenxiao Wang, Rui Zeng, Di Frishkoff, Luke O. Si, Xingfeng |
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Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly |
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Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly |
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Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly |
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Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly |
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Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly |
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land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly |
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