Leaf litter weevil richness increases with elevation in a tropical–temperate transitional forest in El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, northeastern Mexico
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/61989592:15310/24:73628172
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.13295" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.13295</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.13295" target="_blank" >10.1111/btp.13295</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Leaf litter weevil richness increases with elevation in a tropical–temperate transitional forest in El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, northeastern Mexico
Original language description
We studied communities of leaf litter weevils along a 2000 m elevation gradient in El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, northeastern Mexico, an area where Nearctic and Neotropical biotas overlap. After achieving high inventory completeness (0.922 site sample coverage), we encountered 81 weevil morphospecies, of which 55 were known to be leaf litter specialists. The diversity of leaf litter weevils increased with elevation. Beta diversity across the elevational gradient was mostly explained by species turnover rather than nestedness. The interaction between forest structure (measured as median DBH of trees) and precipitation seasonality explained more than 20% of the variation in weevil species richness: weevil richness showed a negative relationship with tree DBH and was positively associated with low climate seasonality variation, characteristics of tropical montane cloud forests. In contrast with insect taxa such as ants and dung beetles, which attain their highest richness at lower elevations, leaf litter weevil richness peaked at 1600 m. These results suggest that most litter weevil species are highly associated with a particular elevation range and the overall pattern of richness increasing with elevation is probably the result of an association of many weevil species with tropical montane cloud forest habitats, which occur close to the top of the mountain.
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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
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biotropica
ISSN
0006-3606
e-ISSN
1744-7429
Volume of the periodical
56
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
e13295
UT code for WoS article
001137426800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85181486405