Disentangling direct and indirect effects of water availability, vegetation, and topography on avian diversity
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F18%3A73591937" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/18:73591937 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33671-w" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-33671-w</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33671-w" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-018-33671-w</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Disentangling direct and indirect effects of water availability, vegetation, and topography on avian diversity
Original language description
Climate is a major driver of species diversity. However, its effect can be either direct due to species physiological tolerances or indirect, whereby wetter climates facilitate more complex vegetation and consequently higher diversity due to greater resource availability. Yet, studies quantifying both direct and indirect effects of climate on multiple dimensions of diversity are rare. We used extensive data on species distributions, morphological and ecological traits, and vegetation across Australia to quantify both direct (water availability) and indirect (habitat diversity and canopy height) effects of climate on the species richness (SR), phylogenetic diversity (PD), and functional diversity (FD) of 536 species of birds. Path analyses revealed that SR increased with wetter climates through both direct and indirect effects, lending support for the influence of both physiological tolerance and vegetation complexity. However, residual PD and residual FD (adjusted for SR by null models) were poorly predicted by environmental conditions. Thus, the FD and PD of Australian birds mostly evolved in concert with SR, with the possible exception of the higher-than-expected accumulation of avian lineages in wetter and more productive areas in northern and eastern Australia (with high residual PD), permitted probably by older biome age.
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
10615 - Ornithology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-22379S" target="_blank" >GA16-22379S: Functional diversity and niche partitioning in the largest Australasian radiation of songbirds (Meliphagoidea, Passeriformes)</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Scientific Reports
ISSN
2045-2322
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
OCT
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
"15475-1"-"15475-12"
UT code for WoS article
000447705900009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85055072879