Environmental drivers of community diversity in a neotropical urban landscape: a multi-scale analysis
Environmental drivers of community diversity in a neotropical urban landscape: a multi-scale analysis
复制标题
新热带城市景观中群落多样性的环境驱动因素:多尺度分析
作者:
Stanislas Talaga;F. Petitclerc;J. Carrias;Olivier Dézerald;C. Leroy;R. Céréghino;A. Dejean
ContextMany aquatic communities are linked by the aerial dispersal of multiple, interacting species and are thus structured by processes occurring in both the aquatic and terrestrial compartments of the ecosystem.ObjectivesTo evaluate the environmental factors shaping the aquatic macroinvertebrate communities associated with tank bromeliads in an urban landscape.MethodsThirty-two bromeliads were georeferenced to assess the spatial distribution of the aquatic meta-habitat in one city. The relative influence of the aquatic and terrestrial habitats on the structure of macroinvertebrate communities was analyzed at four spatial scales (radius = 10, 30, 50, and 70 m) using redundancy analyses.ResultsWe sorted 18,352 aquatic macroinvertebrates into 29 taxa. Water volume and the amount of organic matter explained a significant part of the taxa variance, regardless of spatial scale. The remaining variance was explained by the meta-habitat size (i.e., the water volume for all of the bromeliads within a given surface area), the distance to the nearest building at small scales, and the surface area of buildings plus ground cover at larger scales. At small scales, the meta-habitat size influenced the two most frequent mosquito species in opposite ways, suggesting spatial competition and coexistence. Greater vegetation cover favored the presence of a top predator.ConclusionsThe size of the meta-habitat and urban landscape characteristics influence the structure of aquatic communities in tank bromeliads, including mosquito larval abundance. Modifications to this landscape will affect both the terrestrial and aquatic compartments of the urban ecosystem, offering prospects for mosquito management during urban planning.
影响因子:
2.8
作者:
Mocellin,MárcioGoulart;Simões,TaynãnaCésar;Nascimento,TeresaFernandesSilvado;Teixeira,MariaLuciaFrança;Lounibos,LeonPhilip;Oliveira,RicardoLourençode
通讯作者:
Oliveira,RicardoLourençode
DOI:
10.1163/187498308x414742
发表时间:
2009
期刊:
Terrestrial arthropod reviews
影响因子:
--
作者:
Frank,JH;Lounibos,LP
通讯作者:
Lounibos,LP