Partitioning taxon, phylogenetic and functional beta diversity into replacement and richness difference components

Cardoso, Pedro; Rigal, François; Carvalho, José C.; Fortelius, Mikael; Borges, Paulo A. V.; Podani, János; Schmera, Dénes

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“…Based on the results obtained for low altitude agricultural areas, the disturbance index D variable, in contrast to other studies (e.g. Boieiro et al 2013;Cardoso et al 2013Cardoso et al , 2014Florencio et al, 2013), do not fully and adequately explain the spatial abundance of native pollinators in this island. Unmeasured variables associated to current and past land uses that reflect specific agro-ecosystems management regimes in Terceira Island may have driven the current spatial heterogeneity of the pollinators' abundance and diversity.…”

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Pollination services mapping and economic valuation from insect communities: a case study in the Azores (Terceira Island)

Picanço¹,

Gil²,

Rigal³

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Insect pollinators provide vital ecosystem services through its maintenance of plant biological diversity and its role in food production. Indeed, adequate pollination services can increase the production and quality of fruit and vegetable crops. This service is currently challenged by land use intensification and expanding human population growth. Hence, this study aims: (1) to assess the pollination services in different land uses with different levels of disturbance through GIS mapping technique using insect pollinators abundance and richness as indicators, and (2) estimate the economic value of pollination by insects in agricultural crops. Our study takes place in a small oceanic island, Terceira (Azores, Portugal). Our results showed, remarkably, that not only the pristine vegetation areas, but also the orchards and agricultural areas have relatively high values of pollination services, even though both land uses have opposite disturbance levels. For the economic valuation, we analyzed 24 crops in the island and found that 18 depend on pollinators with one-third of these crops having 65% or 95% dependence on pollinators. The economic contribution of pollinators totals 36.2% of the total mean annual agricultural income of the dependent crops, highlighting the importance of insect pollinators in agricultural production and consequent economic gain productions. RESEARCH ARTICLE Launched to accelerate biodiversity conservation A peer-reviewed open-access journalAna Picanço et al. / Nature Conservation 18: 1-25 (2017) 2

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Pollination services mapping and economic valuation from insect communities: a case study in the Azores (Terceira Island)

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“…In turn, a new name should be given to those indices depending both on species replacement and richness difference, as those derived from the POD framework (Podani & Schmera ; Carvalho, Cardoso & Gomes ; Cardoso et al . ; Legendre ).…”

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“…; Villeger, Grenouillet & Brosse ; Cardoso et al . ). For brevity and consistence with the terminology used by Legendre (), we will use the terms BAS and POD frameworks to refer to the original (Baselga ) and alternative (Podani & Schmera ; Carvalho, Cardoso & Gomes ) partitioning methods.…”

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Comparing methods to separate components of beta diversity

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Summary Two alternative frameworks have been proposed to partition compositional dissimilarity into replacement and nestedness‐resultant component or into replacement and richness‐difference components. These are, respectively, the BAS (Baselga 2010, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19, 134–143) and POD (Podani & Schmera . Oikos, 120, 1625–1638) frameworks. We conduct a systematic comparison of parallel components in alternative approaches. We test whether the replacement components derived from the BAS and POD frameworks are independent of richness difference. We also evaluate whether previously reported tests of monotonicity between indices and ecological processes are informative to assess the performance of indices. Finally, we illustrate the consequences of differences between the BAS and POD frameworks using the North American freshwater fish fauna as an empirical example. In the BAS framework, the nestedness‐resultant component (βjne or βsne) accounts only for richness differences derived from nested patterns while, in the POD framework, richness‐difference dissimilarity (βrich or βrich.s) accounts for all kind of richness differences. Likewise, the replacement components of both alternative methods account for different concepts. Only the replacement component of the BAS framework (βjtu or βsim) is independent of richness difference, while the parallel component in the POD framework (β−3 or β−3.s) is not (i.e. it is mathematically constrained by richness difference). Therefore, only the BAS framework allows separating (i) the variation in species composition derived from species replacement which is independent of richness difference (i.e. not mathematically constrained by it) and (ii) the variation in species composition derived from nested patterns.

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“…() and Cardoso et al . () because we were interested in compositional differences strictly due to nestedness, rather than those due to the more general case of richness differences (Carvalho et al ., ). Differences in richness between elevations have already been investigated at this site (Bishop et al ., ).…”

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Contrasting species and functional beta diversity in montane ant assemblages

Bishop

Robertson

Rensburg

et al. 2015

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AimBeta diversity describes the variation in species composition between sites and can be used to infer why different species occupy different parts of the globe. It can be viewed in a number of ways. First, it can be partitioned into two distinct patterns: turnover and nestedness. Second, it can be investigated from either a species identity or a functional‐trait point of view. We aim to document for the first time how these two aspects of beta diversity vary in response to a large environmental gradient.LocationMaloti‐Drakensberg Mountains, southern Africa.MethodsWe sampled ant assemblages along an extensive elevational gradient (900–3000 m a.s.l.) twice yearly for 7 years, and collected functional‐trait information related to the species’ dietary and habitat‐structure preferences. We used recently developed methods to partition species and functional beta diversity into their turnover and nestedness components. A series of null models were used to test whether the observed beta diversity patterns differed from random expectations.ResultsSpecies beta diversity was driven by turnover, but functional beta diversity was composed of both turnover and nestedness patterns at different parts of the gradient. Null models revealed that deterministic processes were likely to be responsible for the species patterns but that the functional changes were indistinguishable from stochasticity.Main conclusionsDifferent ant species are found with increasing elevation, but they tend to represent an increasingly nested subset of the available functional strategies. This finding is unique and narrows down the list of possible factors that control ant existence across elevation. We conclude that diet and habitat preferences have little role in structuring ant assemblages in montane environments and that some other factor must be driving the non‐random patterns of species turnover. This finding also highlights the importance of distinguishing between different kinds of beta diversity.

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Partitioning taxon, phylogenetic and functional beta diversity into replacement and richness difference components

Cited by 200 publications

References 57 publications

Pollination services mapping and economic valuation from insect communities: a case study in the Azores (Terceira Island)

Pollination services mapping and economic valuation from insect communities: a case study in the Azores (Terceira Island)

Comparing methods to separate components of beta diversity

Contrasting species and functional beta diversity in montane ant assemblages

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