Local- versus broad-scale environmental drivers of continental β-diversity patterns in subterranean spider communities across Europe

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1579" target="_blank" >10.1098/rspb.2019.1579</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Local- versus broad-scale environmental drivers of continental β-diversity patterns in subterranean spider communities across Europe

Original language description

Macroecologists seek to identify drivers of community turnover (β-diversity) through broad spatial scales. Yet, the influence of local habitat features in driving broad-scale β-diversity patterns remains largely untested, due to the objective challenges of associating local-scale variables to continental-framed datasets. We examined the relative contribution of local- versus broad-scale drivers of continental β-diversity patterns, using a uniquely suited dataset of cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (35–70° latitude). Generalized dissimilarity modelling showed that geographical distance, mean annual temperature, and size of the karst area in which caves occurred drove most of β-diversity, with differential contributions of each factor according to the level of subterranean specialization. Highly specialized communities were mostly influenced by geographical distance, while less specialized communities were mostly driven by mean annual temperature. Conversely, local-scale habitat features turned out to be meaningless predictors of community change, which emphasizes the idea of caves as the human accessible fraction of the extended network of fissures that more properly represents the elective habitat of the subterranean fauna. To the extent that the effect of local features turned to be inconspicuous, caves emerge as experimental model systems in which to study broad biological patterns without the confounding effect of local habitat features.

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

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Proceedings of the Royal Society. B - Biological Sciences

ISSN

0962-8452

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

286

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1914

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

20191579

UT code for WoS article

000504858100005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85074275843