Local and regional diversity of frog communities along an extensive rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/24:43908618

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.13283" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/btp.13283</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.13283" target="_blank" >10.1111/btp.13283</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Local and regional diversity of frog communities along an extensive rainforest elevation gradient in Papua New Guinea

Original language description

Rainforests on high tropical mountains are globally important species diversity hotspots. We studied amphibians along an extensive rainforest elevation gradient on Mt. Wilhelm (4509 m) in Papua New Guinea. We established eight sites at 500 m elevation increments between 200 and 3700 m a.s.l. and relate their community composition to the known species pool of New Guinea island. We recorded 3390 frogs from 55 species, which is three times more species than at any local community along the elevation gradient. Species diversity peaked at 1700 m a.s.l. for Mt. Wilhelm communities, and at 500-1100 m a.s.l. in the broader New Guinea fauna, probably reflecting increasing speciation and decreasing dispersal rates with increasing elevation. The beta diversity between frog communities was high and increased with increasing elevation. The change in frog community composition across 500 m elevation corresponded to the change over 200 km distance within lowland forests. A majority of frog species were distributed over narrow <500 m elevational ranges, at Mt Wilhelm and the New Guinea fauna more broadly. We did not detect Rapoport's pattern of wider elevation range for species at higher elevations than for lowland species, for Mt. Wilhelm communities or the New Guinea fauna. The high beta diversity patterns along elevation gradients generated by rapid species turnover with narrow elevation ranges make frog communities vulnerable to change in environment, including climate change. Abstract in Melanesian Pidgin is available with online material.

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/GX19-28126X" target="_blank" >GX19-28126X: Testing mechanisms that maintain high species diversity in food webs by experimental manipulation of trophic cascades in a tropical rainforest</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Biotropica

ISSN

0006-3606

e-ISSN

1744-7429

Volume of the periodical

56

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

90-97

UT code for WoS article

001192158700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85178201723