Disentangling vegetation diversity from climate-energy and
habitat heterogeneity for explaining animal geographic patterns

J 2016

Disentangling vegetation diversity from climate-energy and habitat heterogeneity for explaining animal geographic patterns

JIMÉNEZ-ALFARO, Borja, Milan CHYTRÝ, Ladislav MUCINA, James B. GRACE, Marcel REJMÁNEK et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Disentangling vegetation diversity from climate-energy and habitat heterogeneity for explaining animal geographic patterns

Authors

JIMÉNEZ-ALFARO, Borja (724 Spain, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Milan CHYTRÝ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Ladislav MUCINA (40 Austria), James B. GRACE (840 United States of America) and Marcel REJMÁNEK (840 United States of America)

Edition

Ecology and Evolution, Hoboken, Wiley, 2016, 2045-7758

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.440

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/16:00087922

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1972

UT WoS

000371221600020

Keywords in English

Animal diversity; diversity patterns; energy hypothesis; habitat heterogeneity; plant community; productivity; vegetation

Abstract

V originále

Broad-scale animal diversity patterns have been traditionally explained by hypotheses focused on climate-energy and habitat heterogeneity, without considering the direct influence of vegetation structure and composition. However, integrating these factors when considering plant-animal correlates still poses a major challenge because plant communities are controlled by abiotic factors that may, at the same time, influence animal distributions. By testing whether the number and variation of plant community types in Europe explain country-level diversity in six animal groups, we propose a conceptual framework in which vegetation diversity represents a bridge between abiotic factors and animal diversity. We show that vegetation diversity explains variation in animal richness not accounted for by altitudinal range or potential evapotranspiration, being the best predictor for butterflies, beetles, and amphibians. Moreover, the dissimilarity of plant community types explains the highest proportion of variation in animal assemblages across the studied regions, an effect that outperforms the effect of climate and their shared contribution with pure spatial variation. Our results at the country level suggest that vegetation diversity, as estimated from broad-scale classifications of plant communities, may contribute to our understanding of animal richness and may be disentangled, at least to a degree, from climate-energy and abiotic habitat heterogeneity.

Links

EE2.3.30.0037, research and development project

Name: Zaměstnáním nejlepších mladých vědců k rozvoji mezinárodní spolupráce

GB14-36079G, research and development project

Name: Centrum analýzy a syntézy rostlinné diverzity (PLADIAS) (Acronym: PLADIAS)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

JIMÉNEZ-ALFARO, Borja, Milan CHYTRÝ, Ladislav MUCINA, James B. GRACE and Marcel REJMÁNEK. Disentangling vegetation diversity from climate-energy and habitat heterogeneity for explaining animal geographic patterns. Ecology and Evolution. Hoboken: Wiley, 2016, vol. 6, No 5, p. 1515-1526. ISSN 2045-7758. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1972.

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JIMÉNEZ-ALFARO, Borja, Milan CHYTRÝ, Ladislav MUCINA, James B. GRACE and Marcel REJMÁNEK. Disentangling vegetation diversity from climate-energy and habitat heterogeneity for explaining animal geographic patterns. \textit{Ecology and Evolution}. Hoboken: Wiley, 2016, vol.~6, No~5, p.~1515-1526. ISSN~2045-7758. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1972.

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