Functional shifts in bird communities from semi-natural oak forests to conifer plantations are not consistent across Europe
| Autor: | Vânia Proença, Martin J. P. Sullivan, Luc Barbaro, Sandra Irwin, Scott M. Pedley, João L. Guilherme, John O'Halloran |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Dynamiques Forestières dans l'Espace Rural (DYNAFOR), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse [ENSAT]-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Centre d'Ecologie et des Sciences de la COnservation (CESCO), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, University College Cork (UCC), Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA), University of Leeds, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP) |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0106 biological sciences
Atlantic biogeographic Biodiversity Forests Animal Phylogenetics Functional shifts [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics Phylogenetics and taxonomy 01 natural sciences Geographical locations Trees Quercus Oak forests Data Management Multidisciplinary Ecology Eukaryota Plants Terrestrial Environments Europe Conifers Phylogenetics Geography Vertebrates Trait pine plantations population trends carabbeetle species traits woodland birds habitat use diversity conservation assemblages landscape Medicine Ordination France Research Article Computer and Information Sciences Science Bird communities Conifer plantations Context (language use) 010603 evolutionary biology Ecosystems Birds Oaks Animals Evolutionary Systematics European Union Taxonomy Evolutionary Biology Portugal Land use 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology Ecology and Environmental Sciences Organisms Biology and Life Sciences 15. Life on land Semi-natural Tracheophyta Phylogenetic diversity Amniotes Species richness [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology People and places Zoology Ireland human activities Diversity (business) |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 7, p e0220155 (2019) PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2019, 14 (7), pp.e0220155. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0220155⟩ Plos One 7 (14), 13 p.. (2019) |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0220155 |
| Popis: | International audience; While the area of plantation forest increased globally between 2010 and 2015, more than twice the area of natural forests was lost over the same period (6.5 million ha natural forest lost per year versus 3.2 million ha plantation gained per year). Consequently, there is an increasing need to understand how plantation land use affects biodiversity. The relative conservation value of plantation forests is context dependent, being influenced by previous land use, management regimes and landscape composition. What is less well understood, and of importance to conservation management, is the consistency of diversity patterns across regions, and the degree to which useful generalisations can be provided within and among bioregions. Here, we analyse forest birds in Ireland, France and Portugal, representing distinct regions across the Atlantic biogeographic area of Europe. We compared taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of bird communities among conifer plantations and semi-natural oak forests, and assessed correlations between species traits and forest type across these regions. Although bird composition (assessed with NMDS ordination) differed consistently between plantation and oak forests across all three regions, species richness and Shannon diversity did not show a consistent pattern. In Ireland and France, metrics of taxonomic diversity (richness and Shannon diversity), functional diversity, functional dispersion and phylogenetic diversity were greater in oak forests than plantations. However, in Portugal taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity did not differ significantly between forest types, while functional diversity and dispersion were statistically significantly greater in plantations. No single bird trait-forest type association correlated in a consistent direction across the three study regions. Trait associations for the French bird communities appeared intermediate between those in Ireland and Portugal, and when trait correlations were significant in both Ireland and Portugal, the direction of the correlation was always opposite. The variation in response of bird communities to conifer plantations indicates that care is needed when generalising patterns of community diversity and assembly mechanisms across regions. |
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