Biodiversity Patterns and Continental Insularity in the Tropical High Andes
International audience Alpine areas of the tropical Andes constitute the largest of all tropical alpine regions worldwide. They experience a particularly harsh climate, and they are fragmented into tropical alpine islands at various spatial scales. These factors generate unique patterns of continent...
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-01987692v1 2023-05-15T14:14:26+02:00 Biodiversity Patterns and Continental Insularity in the Tropical High Andes Anthelme, Fabien Jacobsen, Dean Macek, Petr Meneses, Rosa Moret, Pierre Beck, Stephan Dangles, Olivier Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud ) Freshwater Biological Laboratory, Biology Department University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU) Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES) Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Herbario Nacional de Bolivia Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) INRA - Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées (Unité MIAJ) Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) 2014 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01987692 https://doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.811 en eng HAL CCSD University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.811 hal-01987692 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01987692 doi:10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.811 ISSN: 1523-0430 Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01987692 Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, 2014, 46 (4), pp.811-828. ⟨10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.811⟩ Climate Change Biodiversity Ecology High altitude environments Andes [SDE]Environmental Sciences [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2014 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.811 2021-10-17T00:39:57Z International audience Alpine areas of the tropical Andes constitute the largest of all tropical alpine regions worldwide. They experience a particularly harsh climate, and they are fragmented into tropical alpine islands at various spatial scales. These factors generate unique patterns of continental insularity, whose impacts on biodiversity remain to be examined precisely. By reviewing existing literature and by presenting unpublished data on beta-diversity and endemism for a wide array of taxonomic groups, we aimed at providing a clear, overall picture of the isolation-biodiversity relationship in the tropical alpine environments of the Andes. Our analyses showed that (1) taxa with better dispersal capacities and wider distributions (e.g., grasses and birds) were less restricted to alpine areas at local scale; (2) similarity among communities decreased with spatial distance between isolated alpine areas; and (3) endemism reached a peak in small alpine areas strongly isolated from main alpine islands. These results pinpoint continental insularity as a powerful driver of biodiversity in the tropical High Andes. A combination of human activities and warming is expected to increase the effects of continental insularity in the next decades, especially by amplifying the resistance of the lowland matrix that surrounds tropical alpine islands. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarctic and Alpine Research Arctic Arctic and Alpine Research Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 46 4 811 828 |
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Climate Change Biodiversity Ecology High altitude environments Andes [SDE]Environmental Sciences [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology Anthelme, Fabien Jacobsen, Dean Macek, Petr Meneses, Rosa Moret, Pierre Beck, Stephan Dangles, Olivier Biodiversity Patterns and Continental Insularity in the Tropical High Andes |
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International audience Alpine areas of the tropical Andes constitute the largest of all tropical alpine regions worldwide. They experience a particularly harsh climate, and they are fragmented into tropical alpine islands at various spatial scales. These factors generate unique patterns of continental insularity, whose impacts on biodiversity remain to be examined precisely. By reviewing existing literature and by presenting unpublished data on beta-diversity and endemism for a wide array of taxonomic groups, we aimed at providing a clear, overall picture of the isolation-biodiversity relationship in the tropical alpine environments of the Andes. Our analyses showed that (1) taxa with better dispersal capacities and wider distributions (e.g., grasses and birds) were less restricted to alpine areas at local scale; (2) similarity among communities decreased with spatial distance between isolated alpine areas; and (3) endemism reached a peak in small alpine areas strongly isolated from main alpine islands. These results pinpoint continental insularity as a powerful driver of biodiversity in the tropical High Andes. A combination of human activities and warming is expected to increase the effects of continental insularity in the next decades, especially by amplifying the resistance of the lowland matrix that surrounds tropical alpine islands. |
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Botanique et Modélisation de l'Architecture des Plantes et des Végétations (UMR AMAP) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud ) Freshwater Biological Laboratory, Biology Department University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU) Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES) Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Herbario Nacional de Bolivia Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA) INRA - Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées (Unité MIAJ) Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) |
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Biodiversity Patterns and Continental Insularity in the Tropical High Andes |
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Biodiversity Patterns and Continental Insularity in the Tropical High Andes |
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Biodiversity Patterns and Continental Insularity in the Tropical High Andes |
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ISSN: 1523-0430 Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01987692 Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, 2014, 46 (4), pp.811-828. ⟨10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.811⟩ |
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