Nestedness of bird assemblages on urban woodlots: Implications for conservation

Wang, Yanping; Ding, Ping; Chen, Shuihua; Zheng, Guangmei

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.11.008

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“…; Triantis and Bhagwat ), and disturbance (Fleishman and Murphy ; Wang et al. ). In this respect, our finding shines light on the further research to determine and compare the factors producing nested patterns at different areas.…”

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Detecting the small island effect and nestedness of herpetofauna of the West Indies

Gao

Perry

2016

Ecology and Evolution

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To detect the small island effect (SIE) and nestedness patterns of herpetofauna of the West Indies, we derived and updated data on the presence/absence of herpetofauna in this region from recently published reviews. We applied regression‐based analyses, including linear regression and piecewise regressions with two and three segments, to detect the SIE and then used the Akaike's information criterion (AIC) as a criterion to select the best model. We used the NODF (a nestedness metric based on overlap and decreasing fill) to quantify nestedness and employed two null models to determine significance. Moreover, a random sampling effort was made to infer about the degree of nestedness at portions of the entire community. We found piecewise regression with three segments performed best, suggesting the species–area relationships possess three different patterns that resulted from two area thresholds: a first one, delimiting the SIE, and a second one, delimiting evolutionary processes. We also found that taxa with lower resource requirement, higher dispersal ability, and stronger adaptation to the environment generally displayed lower corresponding threshold values, indicating superior taxonomic groups could earlier end the SIE period and start in situ speciation as the increase of island size. Moreover, the traditional two‐segment piecewise regression method may cause poor estimations for both slope and threshold value of the SIE. Therefore, we suggest previous SIE detection works that conducted by two‐segment piecewise regression method, ignoring the possibility of three segments, need to be reanalyzed. Antinestedness occurred in the entire system, whereas high degree of nestedness could still occur in portions within the region. Nestedness may still be applicable to conservation planning at portions even if it is antinested at the regional scale. However, nestedness may not be applicable to conservation planning at the regional scale even if nestedness does exist among sampling islands from a portion.

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Detecting the small island effect and nestedness of herpetofauna of the West Indies

Gao

Perry

2016

Ecology and Evolution

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“…First, aquatic species were excluded because their distributions were mainly driven by the presence of suitable water bodies (Wang et al, 2010(Wang et al, , 2011. Second, some nocturnal and crepuscular species, such as the owls and nightjars, were excluded because they could not be reliably detected (Wang et al, 2012(Wang et al, , 2013. Third, swifts and swallows were excluded because their use of islands was difficult to determine (Wang et al, 2011).…”

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“…Third, swifts and swallows were excluded because their use of islands was difficult to determine (Wang et al, 2011). Finally, winter migratory species were also excluded because they only occupied islands during migratory passage periods and thus are not true residents or breeding individuals (Wang et al, 2013). Accordingly, a total of 60 forest breeding species were analyzed (Table A2).…”

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Ecological correlates of vulnerability to fragmentation in forest birds on inundated subtropical land-bridge islands

Wang

Thornton

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“…第 24 卷格局(nestedness) (Soga & Koike, 2012) (land-bridge islands) (Wang et al, 2010(Wang et al, , 2012Hu et al, 2011) 、片断化森林斑块 (fragmented forest patches) (Hill et al, 2011) 和海洋性群岛 (oceanic archipelagos) (Dennis et al, 2012)等。涉及的动物类群也十分丰富, 包括哺乳类 (Rodríguez & Ojeda, 2013)、鸟类 (Wang et al, 2013)和两栖爬行类 (Li et al, 1998;Wang et al, 2012 Fig. 1 Location of the 28 sampling islands in the Zhoushan Archipelago.…”

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Influencing factors of the nested distribution of butterfly assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China

Zhang

Han²,

Liu³

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Biodiversity Science

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Nestedness of bird assemblages on urban woodlots: Implications for conservation

Cited by 41 publications

References 46 publications

Detecting the small island effect and nestedness of herpetofauna of the West Indies

Detecting the small island effect and nestedness of herpetofauna of the West Indies

Ecological correlates of vulnerability to fragmentation in forest birds on inundated subtropical land-bridge islands

Influencing factors of the nested distribution of butterfly assemblages in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China

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