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Contrasting effects of habitat area and connectivity on evenness of pollinator communities
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- Marini, Lorenzo (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för ekologi,Department of Ecology,University of Padova,University of Padova, Italy
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- Öckinger, Erik (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för ekologi,Department of Ecology,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
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- Bergman, Karl-Olof (author)
- Linköpings universitet,Biologi,Tekniska högskolan
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- Jauker, Birgit (author)
- Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
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- Krauss, Jochen (author)
- University of Würzburg, Germany
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- Kuussaari, Mikko (author)
- Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Helsinki, Finland
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- Poyry, Juha (author)
- Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Helsinki, Finland
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- Smith, Henrik (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Biodiversitet,Biologiska institutionen,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC),Biodiversity,Department of Biology,Faculty of Science,Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC),Lund University, Sweden
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- Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf (author)
- University of Würzburg, Germany
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- Bommarco, Riccardo (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för ekologi,Department of Ecology,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden
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- 2013-12-19
- 2014
- English.
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In: Ecography. - : Wiley. - 1600-0587 .- 0906-7590. ; 37:6, s. 544-551
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- Losses of both habitat area and connectivity have been identified as important drivers of species richness declines, but little theoretical and empirical work exists that addresses the effect of fragmentation on relative commonness of highly mobile species such as pollinating insects. With a large dataset of wild bee and butterfly abundances collected across Europe, we first tested the effect of habitat area and connectivity on evenness in pollinator communities using a large array of indexes that give different weight to dominance and rarity. Second, we tested if traits related to mobility and diet breadth could explain the observed evenness patterns. We found a clear negative effect of area and a weaker, but positive effect of connectivity on evenness. Communities in small habitat fragments were mainly composed of mobile and generalist species. The higher evenness in small fragments could thereby be generated by highly mobile species that maintain local populations with frequent inter-fragment movements. Trait analysis suggested an increasing importance of dispersal over local recruitment, as we move from large to small fragments and from less to more connected fragments. Species richness and evenness were negatively correlated indicating that the two variables responded differently to habitat area and connectivity, although the mechanisms underlying the observed patterns are difficult to isolate. Even though habitat area and connectivity often decrease simultaneously due to habitat fragmentation, an interesting practical implication of the contrasting effect of the two variables is that the resulting community composition will depend on the relative strength of these two processes.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Biologi -- Ekologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
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