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Socolar, Jacob B., Gilroy, James J. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7597-5780, Kunin, William E. and Edwards, David P.
(2016)
How should beta-diversity inform biodiversity conservation?
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31 (1).
pp. 67-80.
ISSN 0169-5347
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Abstract
To design robust protected area networks, accurately measure species losses, or understand the processes that maintain species diversity, conservation science must consider the organization of biodiversity in space. Central is beta-diversity - the component of regional diversity that accumulates from compositional differences between local species assemblages. We review how beta-diversity is impacted by human activities, including farming, selective logging, urbanization, species invasions, overhunting, and climate change. Beta-diversity increases, decreases, or remains unchanged by these impacts, depending on the balance of processes that cause species composition to become more different (biotic heterogenization) or more similar (biotic homogenization) between sites. While maintaining high beta-diversity is not always a desirable conservation outcome, understanding beta-diversity is essential for protecting regional diversity and can directly assist conservation planning. Beta-diversity reveals the spatial scaling of diversity loss.Beta-diversity illuminates mechanisms of regional diversity maintenance.Human activities cause beta-diversity to increase, decrease, or remain unchanged.Conservation significance of beta-diversity shift depends on local diversity dynamics.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | alpha-diversity,beta-diversity,biodiversity conservation,biotic homogenization,diversity partitioning,gamma-diversity,pairwise dissimilarities,spatial scaling,species-area relationships,sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Organisms and the Environment Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Biology |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jan 2016 16:00 |
| Last Modified: | 11 May 2023 23:58 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/56257 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.tree.2015.11.005 |
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