Complexity within an oil palm monoculture: The effects of habitat variability and rainfall on adult dragonfly (Odonata) communities

Luke, Sarah H.; Advento, Andreas Dwi; Dow, Rory A.; Aryawan, Anak Agung Ketut; Barclay, Holly; Eycott, Amy E.; Hinsch, Julie K.; Kurniawan, Candra; Naim, Mohammad; Mann, Darren J.; Pujianto, Pujianto; Purnomo, Dedi; Rambe, Tuani Dzulfikar Siguga; Slade, Eleanor M.; Soeprapto,; Suhardi, .; Tarigan, Ribka Sionita; Wahyuningsih, Resti; Widodo, Rudy Harto; Caliman, Jean‐Pierre; Snaddon, Jake L.; Foster, William A.; Turner, Edgar C.

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“…Oil palms reach peak production after 6–10 years and, after this time, plantations can develop stable microclimates (Luskin & Potts, 2011), structurally complex vegetation (Luke et al., 2019), and increased soil organic carbon (Pauli et al., 2014), increasing habitat stability and providing resources for biodiversity. For instance, mature oil palm plantations have been found to support abundant and relatively diverse communities of plants (Luke et al., 2019), fungi (Brinkmann et al., 2019), birds (Azhar et al., 2011), dragonflies (Luke, Advento, Dow, et al, 2020) and mammals (Pardo et al., 2019), among other taxonomic groups.…”

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Assessing the effects of oil palm replanting on arthropod biodiversity

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Aryawan

Luke

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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Assessing the effects of oil palm replanting on arthropod biodiversity

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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“…Our metacommunities did not reveal fully significant structure related to rainfall and altitude in any of the analyses. Rainfall is known to strongly affect abundance of Odonata species (Luke et al ., 2020) and voltinism (Corbet et al ., 2006) in tropical areas. Since rainfall is correlated with the availability of water and most of the sites are permanent water bodies, it is unlikely that it affects British Columbia Odonata communities.…”

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Odonata metacommunity structure in northern ecosystems is driven by temperature and latitude

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Cannings

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Insect Conserv Diversity

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The metacommunity concept, defined as a set of local communities connected by species dispersal, provides deep understanding of large‐scale ecological processes. The elements of the metacommunity structure (EMS) framework use occurrence data to differentiate among different patterns (i.e., checkerboard, nestedness, species turnover). Metacommunities of tropical Odonata show species turnover following latitude and temperature gradients but there are no such large‐scale studies for other regions. We performed EMS analysis with data for the Odonata of British Columbia, Canada, testing the role of five environmental variables (temperature, latitude, altitude, precipitation, landcover typology) in structuring the metacommunities and their turnover. The suborder Anisoptera drives the general pattern, with the communities showing a Clementsian‐type response (groups of species that replace each other along the environmental gradients) following temperature and latitude ordering. The Clementsian pattern determined by site temperatures reflects the turnover from a group of cold‐adapted species to one of warm‐adapted species, separated by many species with more generalised temperature requirements. Similarly, the Clementsian pattern associated with the latitude gradient indicates the substitution of a low‐latitude group in the south with a high‐latitude group in the north. The sites ordered by landcover did not show significant coherence and turnover. In a macro‐scale framework, Odonata species assemblages seem to be sensitive to the climatic and geographic variables of local sites (i.e., temperature and latitude), regardless of the surrounding habitat typology. The role of such variables in shaping the assembly of Odonata communities should be considered in large‐scale management and conservation projects.

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“…We touch on several such directions here. Well‐designed comparative approaches comparing ecological patterns across ecological gradients and boundaries produce new and more general insights (see Chatelain, Elias, Guilbert, & Soulier‐Perkins, ; Mottl, Fayle, Yombai, Novotný, & Klimeš, ; Rabl, Gottsberger, Brehm, Hofhansl, & Fiedler, ; Raine, Slade, & Lewis, , all available in this issue). Expanding attention into a wider spread of invertebrate taxa adds insights as a wider range of ecosystem functions is encompassed (see Chatelain et al, , Drinkwater, Williamson, Clare, & Rossiter, , Luke, and Phillips, Chung, Edgecombe, & Ellwood, , all available in this issue). Using the rapid response times of invertebrates in terrestrial ecosystems allows us to evaluate impacts of and recovery from environmental transformations due to natural and human actions (see Franca et al , Luke et al, , Stone, Shoo, Stork, Sheldon, & Catterall, , Torppa, Wirta, & Hanski, , all available in this issue). The availability of effectively limitless computing power potentially allows the enormous complexity of tropical food webs and distribution maps (see Scriven et al, , this issue) to be modeled realistically: Interpreting very complex model systems of course may be as challenging as contemplating the real thing (McLane, Semeniuk, Mcdermid, & Marceau, ). Aligning pattern and process: Does tropical biodiversity matter beyond its intrinsic value? Can ecosystem processes and service survive a massive decline in invertebrate species and density?…”

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Invertebrates and the complexity of tropical ecosystems

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It has been estimated that there are seven million terrestrial arthropod species on Earth consisting of 6.1 million species of insects, 1.5 million of which are beetles. Tropical forests hold a majority of these species, yet few such places have been adequately sampled for alpha diversity, and there remains even more uncertainty about beta diversity. From an ecological point of view, it is the functional role of organisms within ecosystems that is the particular focus. It has been customary to classify invertebrates within ecosystems in terms of their trophic roles, but it is also useful to consider their roles in networks. In broad terms, we can classify these networks on the grounds of their basal resources. Those based directly on the photosynthetic products of plants are so‐called “green” food webs, and those based on dead and dying plant material are “brown” food webs. Here, we principally discuss the diversity and functional roles of the invertebrates in tropical terrestrial ecosystems. New sampling and analytical techniques, an expanded set of focal taxa, and an enhanced concern with interactions and processes hold the promise of a productive future for invertebrate studies in the tropics. These will not only add to general understanding of the dynamics of tropical ecosystems but will also provide powerful tools for monitoring and responding to environmental change.

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Complexity within an oil palm monoculture: The effects of habitat variability and rainfall on adult dragonfly (Odonata) communities

Cited by 12 publications

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Assessing the effects of oil palm replanting on arthropod biodiversity

Assessing the effects of oil palm replanting on arthropod biodiversity

Odonata metacommunity structure in northern ecosystems is driven by temperature and latitude

Invertebrates and the complexity of tropical ecosystems

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