Spatial scaling of plant and bird diversity from 50 to 10,000 ha in a lowland tropical rainforest

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/21:00542637 RIV/00216208:11310/21:10441900

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-021-04925-8" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-021-04925-8</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-04925-8" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00442-021-04925-8</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Spatial scaling of plant and bird diversity from 50 to 10,000 ha in a lowland tropical rainforest

Original language description

While there are numerous studies of diversity patterns both within local communities and at regional scales, the intermediate scale of tens to thousands of km(2) is often neglected. Here we present detailed local data on plant communities (using 20 x 20 m plots) and bird communities (using point counts) for a 50 ha ForestGEO plot in lowland rainforest at Wanang, Papua New Guinea. We compare these local diversity patterns with those documented in the surrounding 10,000 ha of lowland rainforest. Woody plant species richness was lower within 50 ha (88% of 10,000 ha richness), even when both were surveyed with identical sampling effort. In contrast, bird communities exhibited identical species accumulation patterns at both spatial scales. Similarity in species composition (Chao-Jaccard) remained constant while similarity in dominance structure (Bray-Curtis) decreased with increased distance between samples across the range from &lt; 1 to 13.8 km for both plant and bird communities. The similarity decay was more rapid in plants, but in both cases was slow. The results indicate low to zero beta-diversity at the spatial scale represented here, particularly for birds but also for woody plants. A 50 ha plot provided a highly accurate representation of broader-scale diversity and community composition within 10,000 ha for birds, and a relatively good representation for woody plants. This suggests potential for wider generalization of data from ForestGEO plots which are almost always locally unreplicated, at least for those in lowland tropical forest.

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

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Oecologia

ISSN

0029-8549

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

196

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

101-113

UT code for WoS article

000647517200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85105451024