Seasonal variation in a diverse beetle assemblage along two elevational gradients in the Australian Wet Tropics

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26216-8" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26216-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26216-8" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-018-26216-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Seasonal variation in a diverse beetle assemblage along two elevational gradients in the Australian Wet Tropics

Original language description

Altered abiotic conditions resulting from human-induced climate change are already driving changes in the spatial and temporal distributions of many organisms. For insects, how species are distributed across elevations is relatively well known, but data on their seasonality at different elevations are lacking. Here we show seasonal variation in beetle abundance and species richness along two spatially-distinct elevational transects (350-1000 m and 100-1000 m asl) in the rainforests of northern Australia. Temperature was the best predictor of temporal abundance and species richness patterns, while rainfall had little influence. Elevation had little effect on seasonal changes in abundance or diversity. Adults of most beetle species exhibited long season-lengths (&gt;6 months of the year) with distinct peaks in abundance during the summer wet-season. We found evidence of phenotypic variation among the more widespread species, with seasonal peaks in abundance often not coinciding across elevations or transects. Due to the wide elevational range of most species, and the lack of consistency in the seasonality of wide-spread individual species, we suggest that many beetles inhabiting the low to mid-elevation mountains in the Wet Tropics, and potentially other tropical rainforests, are not as vulnerable to extinction due to climate change as many other organisms.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GB14-36098G" target="_blank" >GB14-36098G: Center for tropical biology</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Scientific Reports

ISSN

2045-2322

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

JUN 4 2018

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000434011100046

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85048168186