Species turnover in ant assemblages is greater horizontally than vertically in the world's tallest tropical forest
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60077344%3A_____%2F22%3A00559551" target="_blank" >RIV/60077344:_____/22:00559551 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.9158" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ece3.9158</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9158" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.9158</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Species turnover in ant assemblages is greater horizontally than vertically in the world's tallest tropical forest
Original language description
Abiotic and biotic factors structure species assembly in ecosystems both horizontally and vertically. However, the way community composition changes along comparable horizontal and vertical distances in complex three-dimensional habitats, and the factors driving these patterns, remains poorly understood. By sampling ant assemblages at comparable vertical and horizontal spatial scales in a tropical rainforest, we tested hypotheses that predicted differences in vertical and horizontal turnover explained by different drivers in vertical and horizontal space. These drivers included environmental filtering, such as microclimate (temperature, humidity, and photosynthetic photon flux density) and microhabitat connectivity (leaf area), which are structured differently across vertical and horizontal space. We found that both ant abundance and richness decreased significantly with increasing vertical height. Although the dissimilarity between ant assemblages increased with vertical distance, indicating a clear distance-decay pattern, the dissimilarity was higher horizontally where it appeared independent of distance. The pronounced horizontal and vertical structuring of ant assemblages across short distances is likely explained by a combination of microclimate and microhabitat connectivity. Our results demonstrate the importance of considering three-dimensional spatial variation in local assemblages and reveal how highly diverse communities can be supported by complex habitats.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-06446S" target="_blank" >GA21-06446S: Do entomopathogenic fungi drive arthropod diversity gradients via host negative density dependence?</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecology and Evolution
ISSN
2045-7758
e-ISSN
2045-7758
Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
AUG 01
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
e9158
UT code for WoS article
000834617300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85136977013