eprintid: 70074
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creators_name: Borges, Paulo A. V.
creators_name: Cardoso, Pedro
creators_name: Fattorini, Simone
creators_name: Rigal, François
creators_name: Matthews, Thomas J.
creators_name: Di Biase, Letizia
creators_name: Amorim, Isabel R.
creators_name: Florencio, Margarita
creators_name: Borda-de-Água, Luis
creators_name: Rego, Carla
creators_name: Pereira, Fernando
creators_name: Nunes, Rui
creators_name: Carvalho, Rui
creators_name: Ferreira, Maria Teresa
creators_name: López, Heriberto
creators_name: Delgado, Antonio J. Pérez
creators_name: Otto, Rüdiger
creators_name: Lugo, Silvia Fernández
creators_name: de Nascimento, Lea
creators_name: Caujapé-Castells, Juli
creators_name: Casquet, Juliane
creators_name: Danflous, Samuel
creators_name: Fournel, Jacques
creators_name: Sadeyen, Anne Marie
creators_name: Elias, Rui B.
creators_name: Fernández-Palacios, José María
creators_name: Oromí, Pedro
creators_name: Thébaud, Christophe
creators_name: Strasberg, Dominique
creators_name: Emerson, Brent C.
title: Community structure of woody plants on islands along a bioclimatic gradient
ispublished: pub
divisions: BIO
keywords: beta diversity partition,distance-decay,islands,rarity,species abundance distribution (sad),species area relationship (sar),global and planetary change,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,ecology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2306
abstract: 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
date_type: published
id_number: 10.21425/F5FBG40295
creators_search_name: Borges, Paulo A. V.
creators_search_name: Cardoso, Pedro
creators_search_name: Fattorini, Simone
creators_search_name: Rigal, François
creators_search_name: Rigal, Francois
creators_search_name: Matthews, Thomas J.
creators_search_name: Di Biase, Letizia
creators_search_name: Amorim, Isabel R.
creators_search_name: Florencio, Margarita
creators_search_name: Borda-de-Água, Luis
creators_search_name: Borda-de-Agua, Luis
creators_search_name: Rego, Carla
creators_search_name: Pereira, Fernando
creators_search_name: Nunes, Rui
creators_search_name: Carvalho, Rui
creators_search_name: Ferreira, Maria Teresa
creators_search_name: López, Heriberto
creators_search_name: Lopez, Heriberto
creators_search_name: Delgado, Antonio J. Pérez
creators_search_name: Delgado, Antonio J. Perez
creators_search_name: Otto, Rüdiger
creators_search_name: Otto, Rudiger
creators_search_name: Lugo, Silvia Fernández
creators_search_name: Lugo, Silvia Fernandez
creators_search_name: de Nascimento, Lea
creators_search_name: Caujapé-Castells, Juli
creators_search_name: Caujape-Castells, Juli
creators_search_name: Casquet, Juliane
creators_search_name: Danflous, Samuel
creators_search_name: Fournel, Jacques
creators_search_name: Sadeyen, Anne Marie
creators_search_name: Elias, Rui B.
creators_search_name: Fernández-Palacios, José María
creators_search_name: Fernandez-Palacios, Jose Maria
creators_search_name: Oromí, Pedro
creators_search_name: Oromi, Pedro
creators_search_name: Thébaud, Christophe
creators_search_name: Thebaud, Christophe
creators_search_name: Strasberg, Dominique
creators_search_name: Emerson, Brent C.
full_text_status: public
publication: Frontiers of Biogeography
volume: 10
number: 3-4
article_number: e40295
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1948-6596
related_url_url: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061896796&partnerID=8YFLogxK
citation:   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     
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