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| Title |
Climate mediates the effects of disturbance on ant assemblage structure
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| Published in |
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.1098/rspb.2015.0418 |
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| Authors |
Heloise Gibb, Nathan J. Sanders, Robert R. Dunn, Simon Watson, Manoli Photakis, Silvia Abril, Alan N. Andersen, Elena Angulo, Inge Armbrecht, Xavier Arnan, Fabricio B. Baccaro, Tom R. Bishop, Raphael Boulay, Cristina Castracani, Israel Del Toro, Thibaut Delsinne, Mireia Diaz, David A. Donoso, Martha L. Enríquez, Tom M. Fayle, Donald H. Feener, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, Crisanto Gómez, Donato A. Grasso, Sarah Groc, Brian Heterick, Benjamin D. Hoffmann, Lori Lach, John Lattke, Maurice Leponce, Jean-Philippe Lessard, John Longino, Andrea Lucky, Jonathan Majer, Sean B. Menke, Dirk Mezger, Alessandra Mori, Thinandavha C. Munyai, Omid Paknia, Jessica Pearce-Duvet, Martin Pfeiffer, Stacy M. Philpott, Jorge L. P. de Souza, Melanie Tista, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Merav Vonshak, Catherine L. Parr |
| Abstract |
Many studies have focused on the impacts of climate change on biological assemblages, yet little is known about how climate interacts with other major anthropogenic influences on biodiversity, such as habitat disturbance. Using a unique global database of 1128 local ant assemblages, we examined whether climate mediates the effects of habitat disturbance on assemblage structure at a global scale. Species richness and evenness were associated positively with temperature, and negatively with disturbance. However, the interaction among temperature, precipitation and disturbance shaped species richness and evenness. The effect was manifested through a failure of species richness to increase substantially with temperature in transformed habitats at low precipitation. At low precipitation levels, evenness increased with temperature in undisturbed sites, peaked at medium temperatures in disturbed sites and remained low in transformed sites. In warmer climates with lower rainfall, the effects of increasing disturbance on species richness and evenness were akin to decreases in temperature of up to 9°C. Anthropogenic disturbance and ongoing climate change may interact in complicated ways to shape the structure of assemblages, with hot, arid environments likely to be at greatest risk. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 4 | 17% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 13% |
| Spain | 3 | 13% |
| Canada | 2 | 8% |
| United States | 2 | 8% |
| New Caledonia | 1 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Hungary | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 7 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 63% |
| Scientists | 7 | 29% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 260 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 7 | 3% |
| France | 2 | <1% |
| Australia | 2 | <1% |
| Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| French Guiana | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 243 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 59 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 38 | 15% |
| Researcher | 31 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 5% |
| Other | 60 | 23% |
| Unknown | 42 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 136 | 52% |
| Environmental Science | 45 | 17% |
| Unspecified | 5 | 2% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 13 | 5% |
| Unknown | 53 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 December 2020.
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