Relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes for beta diversity of bird assemblages in Yunnan, China. Issue 6 (8th June 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes for beta diversity of bird assemblages in Yunnan, China. Issue 6 (8th June 2021)
- Main Title:
- Relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes for beta diversity of bird assemblages in Yunnan, China
- Authors:
- He, Xuelian
Brown, Calum
Lin, Luxiang - Abstract:
- Abstract: Evaluating the relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes underlying taxonomic and functional beta diversity is crucial in community ecology, because it can reveal the dominant processes of community assembly. However, studies of bird communities remain rare and of limited spatial extents. In this study, we described the taxonomic and functional beta diversity patterns of 32 passerine bird assemblages of Yunnan Province, China. We constructed null models based on observed species beta diversity and used multiple regressions on distance matrices to evaluate the relative contributions of deterministic and stochastic processes to passerine bird assemblage dissimilarity. Our results showed significant geographic distance decay in taxonomic and functional similarity, with passerine bird assemblages located in the northwest and southwest of the province having higher functional beta diversity values than expected. Environmental distance and geographic distance explained a similar amount taxonomic beta diversity, but environmental distance explained much more functional beta diversity. Our results suggest that both deterministic and stochastic processes drive taxonomic beta diversity, but that deterministic processes, particularly environmental filtering, play a dominant role in driving functional beta diversity of passerine bird assemblages at sub‐national scale.
- Is Part Of:
- Ecosphere. Volume 12:Issue 6(2021)
- Journal:
- Ecosphere
- Issue:
- Volume 12:Issue 6(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 12, Issue 6 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0012-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- n/a
- Page End:
- n/a
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06-08
- Subjects:
- beta diversity -- community assembly -- county resolution -- environmental filtering -- functional traits -- passerine bird assemblage
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- http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/50453 ↗
http://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2150-8925/ ↗
http://www.esajournals.org/loi/ecsp ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1002/ecs2.3545 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2150-8925
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