Nestedness pattern and the influence of geographical factors on Algerian island breeding birds

Aissat, Lyes

doi:10.1080/00207233.2019.1690248

International Journal of Environmental Studies

2019

DOI: 10.1080/00207233.2019.1690248

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Nestedness pattern and the influence of geographical factors on Algerian island breeding birds

Lyes Aissat

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Environmental variables associated with insect richness and nestedness on small islands off the coast of northeastern Algeria

Aissat¹

2023

Eur. J. Entomol.

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http://www.eje.cz tained only from nestedness will not provide clear explanations if environmental factors are not associated with this process (Murkami & Hirao, 2010). Thus, using environmental variables to account for the pattern of nestedness recorded for island ecosystems will enable conservationists to focus on the factors associated with diversity and protect the islands harbouring most species.Diff erent processes can generate patterns in nestedness: (1) passive sampling: can generate nestedness because common species are more accessible and thus easy to sample than rare species (Andrén, 1994) and (2) selective extinction of species: species inhabiting ecosystems experiencing species loss, would disappear from sites in a predictable way, which could lead to nestedness (Cutler, 1991; Lomolino, 1996), (3) diff erential colonization of habitats: the nested structure of isolated habitats could be due to dispersal limitations as species diff er in their ability to colonize (Ryti & Gilpin, 1987; Cook, 1995; Lomolino, 1996), (4) habitat nestedness: considers the nestedness of species assemblages to be a consequence of their close association with habitats that have a nested distribution (Ward & Lakhani, 1977; Honnay et al., 1999).

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Environmental variables associated with insect richness and nestedness on small islands off the coast of northeastern Algeria

Aissat¹

2023

Eur. J. Entomol.

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Scale-Dependent Habitat Nestedness and Its Implications for Anuran Conservation in the Chengdu Region: A Multi-Extent Analysis

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Liu,

Chen

2024

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Nestedness in community ecology predicts that species in a species-poor site should be a subset of species of a species-rich site. A variety of ecological mechanisms have been offered to explain community nestedness; however, few studies have systematically discussed the issue of scale dependence when interpreting community nestedness. This study conducted surveys of anuran species data in the vicinity of Chengdu, Sichuan, in the summers of 2019–2020, using the transect method. The study area was divided into 23 sampling sites and 8 regions to explore the relationship between environmental factors and the nested distribution pattern of anuran communities under different sampling extents (with sampling buffers set at 1 km, 2 km, and 5 km). The WNODF (weighted-nestedness metric based on overlap and decreasing fill) results indicated that anurans exhibited a strong nested pattern at both the sampling sites scale and the regional scale. The habitat matrix test results suggested that a small-scale study area requires a correspondingly small habitat-sampling extent to effectively test for habitat nestedness. As the study area expands, the habitat-sampling range can be appropriately increased. The nested pattern of anurans in the vicinity of Chengdu can only be explained by habitat nestedness, as a Spearman’s correlation analysis showed that other environmental factors (area size, connectivity index, concentration index, proximity index, and distance to the city center) were not significantly correlated with the nested sequences of sampling points and regions. Therefore, regarding the conservation strategies for anurans in the vicinity of Chengdu, we recommend prioritizing the protection of areas with higher habitat diversity.

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Nestedness pattern and the influence of geographical factors on Algerian island breeding birds

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Environmental variables associated with insect richness and nestedness on small islands off the coast of northeastern Algeria

Environmental variables associated with insect richness and nestedness on small islands off the coast of northeastern Algeria

Scale-Dependent Habitat Nestedness and Its Implications for Anuran Conservation in the Chengdu Region: A Multi-Extent Analysis

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