relation: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70074/
title: Community structure of woody plants on islands along a bioclimatic gradient
creator: Borges, Paulo A. V.
creator: Cardoso, Pedro
creator: Fattorini, Simone
creator: Rigal, François
creator: Matthews, Thomas J.
creator: Di Biase, Letizia
creator: Amorim, Isabel R.
creator: Florencio, Margarita
creator: Borda-de-Água, Luis
creator: Rego, Carla
creator: Pereira, Fernando
creator: Nunes, Rui
creator: Carvalho, Rui
creator: Ferreira, Maria Teresa
creator: López, Heriberto
creator: Delgado, Antonio J. Pérez
creator: Otto, Rüdiger
creator: Lugo, Silvia Fernández
creator: de Nascimento, Lea
creator: Caujapé-Castells, Juli
creator: Casquet, Juliane
creator: Danflous, Samuel
creator: Fournel, Jacques
creator: Sadeyen, Anne Marie
creator: Elias, Rui B.
creator: Fernández-Palacios, José María
creator: Oromí, Pedro
creator: Thébaud, Christophe
creator: Strasberg, Dominique
creator: Emerson, Brent C.
description: Understanding patterns of community structure and the causes for their variation can be furthered by comparative biogeographic analyses of island biotas. We used woody plant data at the local scale to investigate variations in species rarity, alpha, beta, and gamma diversity within and between three islands from the oceanic archipelagoes of Azores, Canaries and Mascarene. We used standardized protocols to sample ten 50 m × 50 m forest plots in each of the three islands with contrasting climate and regional species pools: Terceira (Azores), Tenerife (Canaries), and Reunion (Mascarene Islands). Occupancy frequency distributions and species abundance distributions were used to investigate rarity. The partitioning of beta diversity in a distance-decay framework was used to test for spatial patterns of community composition. Rarity was much more pronounced in the highly diverse islands of Tenerife and Reunion than in the regionally poorer island of Terceira. The number of species rose faster with increasing sample area in both Tenerife and Reunion. The slope of the species rank abundance curve was steeper in Terceira whereas the richer island assemblages approached a lognormal model. Compositional changes according to spatial distance were mostly due to replacement of species in Terceira and Reunion. Our results point to important differences in the community structure of Terceira, which is the less diverse and temperate region in comparison to Tenerife and Reunion which are highly diverse.
date: 2018-09
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by
identifier: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/70074/1/Published_Version.pdf
identifier:   Borges, Paulo A. V., Cardoso, Pedro, Fattorini, Simone, Rigal, François, Matthews, Thomas J., Di Biase, Letizia, Amorim, Isabel R., Florencio, Margarita, Borda-de-Água, Luis, Rego, Carla, Pereira, Fernando, Nunes, Rui, Carvalho, Rui, Ferreira, Maria Teresa, López, Heriberto, Delgado, Antonio J. Pérez, Otto, Rüdiger, Lugo, Silvia Fernández, de Nascimento, Lea, Caujapé-Castells, Juli, Casquet, Juliane, Danflous, Samuel, Fournel, Jacques, Sadeyen, Anne Marie, Elias, Rui B., Fernández-Palacios, José María, Oromí, Pedro, Thébaud, Christophe, Strasberg, Dominique and Emerson, Brent C.  (2018) Community structure of woody plants on islands along a bioclimatic gradient.  Frontiers of Biogeography, 10 (3-4).   ISSN 1948-6596     
relation: 10.21425/F5FBG40295
identifier: 10.21425/F5FBG40295
doi: 10.21425/F5FBG40295