Spatial factors play a major role as determinants of endemic ground beetle beta diversity of Madeira Island Laurisilva.

The development in recent years of new beta diversity analytical approaches highlighted valuable information on the different processes structuring ecological communities. A crucial development for the understanding of beta diversity patterns was also its differentiation in two components: species t...

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Autores principales: Mário Boieiro, José C Carvalho, Pedro Cardoso, Carlos A S Aguiar, Carla Rego, Israel de Faria e Silva, Isabel R Amorim, Fernando Pereira, Eduardo B Azevedo, Paulo A V Borges, Artur R M Serrano
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c61698db9de648abb975c7800d964d6c2021-11-18T07:44:13ZSpatial factors play a major role as determinants of endemic ground beetle beta diversity of Madeira Island Laurisilva.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0064591https://doaj.org/article/c61698db9de648abb975c7800d964d6c2013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23724065/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The development in recent years of new beta diversity analytical approaches highlighted valuable information on the different processes structuring ecological communities. A crucial development for the understanding of beta diversity patterns was also its differentiation in two components: species turnover and richness differences. In this study, we evaluate beta diversity patterns of ground beetles from 26 sites in Madeira Island distributed throughout Laurisilva--a relict forest restricted to the Macaronesian archipelagos. We assess how the two components of ground beetle beta diversity (β(repl)--species turnover and β(rich)--species richness differences) relate with differences in climate, geography, landscape composition matrix, woody plant species richness and soil characteristics and the relative importance of the effects of these variables at different spatial scales. We sampled 1025 specimens from 31 species, most of which are endemic to Madeira Island. A spatially explicit analysis was used to evaluate the contribution of pure environmental, pure spatial and environmental spatially structured effects on variation in ground beetle species richness and composition. Variation partitioning showed that 31.9% of species turnover (β(repl)) and 40.7% of species richness variation (β(rich)) could be explained by the environmental and spatial variables. However, different environmental variables controlled the two types of beta diversity: β(repl) was influenced by climate, disturbance and soil organic matter content whilst β(rich) was controlled by altitude and slope. Furthermore, spatial variables, represented through Moran's eigenvector maps, played a significant role in explaining both β(repl) and β(rich), suggesting that both dispersal ability and Madeira Island complex orography are crucial for the understanding of beta diversity patterns in this group of beetles.Mário BoieiroJosé C CarvalhoPedro CardosoCarlos A S AguiarCarla RegoIsrael de Faria e SilvaIsabel R AmorimFernando PereiraEduardo B AzevedoPaulo A V BorgesArtur R M SerranoPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 5, p e64591 (2013)
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Mário Boieiro
José C Carvalho
Pedro Cardoso
Carlos A S Aguiar
Carla Rego
Israel de Faria e Silva
Isabel R Amorim
Fernando Pereira
Eduardo B Azevedo
Paulo A V Borges
Artur R M Serrano
Spatial factors play a major role as determinants of endemic ground beetle beta diversity of Madeira Island Laurisilva.
description The development in recent years of new beta diversity analytical approaches highlighted valuable information on the different processes structuring ecological communities. A crucial development for the understanding of beta diversity patterns was also its differentiation in two components: species turnover and richness differences. In this study, we evaluate beta diversity patterns of ground beetles from 26 sites in Madeira Island distributed throughout Laurisilva--a relict forest restricted to the Macaronesian archipelagos. We assess how the two components of ground beetle beta diversity (β(repl)--species turnover and β(rich)--species richness differences) relate with differences in climate, geography, landscape composition matrix, woody plant species richness and soil characteristics and the relative importance of the effects of these variables at different spatial scales. We sampled 1025 specimens from 31 species, most of which are endemic to Madeira Island. A spatially explicit analysis was used to evaluate the contribution of pure environmental, pure spatial and environmental spatially structured effects on variation in ground beetle species richness and composition. Variation partitioning showed that 31.9% of species turnover (β(repl)) and 40.7% of species richness variation (β(rich)) could be explained by the environmental and spatial variables. However, different environmental variables controlled the two types of beta diversity: β(repl) was influenced by climate, disturbance and soil organic matter content whilst β(rich) was controlled by altitude and slope. Furthermore, spatial variables, represented through Moran's eigenvector maps, played a significant role in explaining both β(repl) and β(rich), suggesting that both dispersal ability and Madeira Island complex orography are crucial for the understanding of beta diversity patterns in this group of beetles.
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author Mário Boieiro
José C Carvalho
Pedro Cardoso
Carlos A S Aguiar
Carla Rego
Israel de Faria e Silva
Isabel R Amorim
Fernando Pereira
Eduardo B Azevedo
Paulo A V Borges
Artur R M Serrano
author_facet Mário Boieiro
José C Carvalho
Pedro Cardoso
Carlos A S Aguiar
Carla Rego
Israel de Faria e Silva
Isabel R Amorim
Fernando Pereira
Eduardo B Azevedo
Paulo A V Borges
Artur R M Serrano
author_sort Mário Boieiro
title Spatial factors play a major role as determinants of endemic ground beetle beta diversity of Madeira Island Laurisilva.
title_short Spatial factors play a major role as determinants of endemic ground beetle beta diversity of Madeira Island Laurisilva.
title_full Spatial factors play a major role as determinants of endemic ground beetle beta diversity of Madeira Island Laurisilva.
title_fullStr Spatial factors play a major role as determinants of endemic ground beetle beta diversity of Madeira Island Laurisilva.
title_full_unstemmed Spatial factors play a major role as determinants of endemic ground beetle beta diversity of Madeira Island Laurisilva.
title_sort spatial factors play a major role as determinants of endemic ground beetle beta diversity of madeira island laurisilva.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate 2013
url https://doaj.org/article/c61698db9de648abb975c7800d964d6c
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