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Título : Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands
Autor : Cabrera Cisneros, H.
Espinosa íñiguez, C.
Palabras clave : Aridity
Beta diversity
Climatic variability
Global environmental change
Habitat filtering
Latitudinal gradient
Plant community assembly
Regression analysis
Soil fertility
Spatial soil heterogeneity
metadata.dc.date.available: 2017-06-16T22:02:57Z
Fecha de publicación : 1-ene-2014
Editorial : Journal of Biogeography
Resumen : Aim: Geographical, climatic and soil factors are major drivers of plant beta diversity, but their importance for dryland plant communities is poorly known. The aim of this study was to: (1) characterize patterns of beta diversity in global drylands; (2) detect common environmental drivers of beta diversity; and (3) test for thresholds in environmental conditions driving potential shifts in plant species composition. Location: Global. Methods: Beta diversity was quantified in 224 dryland plant communities from 22 geographical regions on all continents except Antarctica using four complementary measures: the percentage of singletons (species occurring at only one site); Whittaker's beta diversity, ?(W); a directional beta diversity metric based on the correlation in species occurrences among spatially contiguous sites, ?(R2); and a multivariate abundance-based metric, ?(MV). We used linear modelling to quantify the relationships between these metrics of beta diversity and geographical, climatic and soil variables. Results: Soil fertility and variability in temperature and rainfall, and to a lesser extent latitude, were the most important environmental predictors of beta diversity. Metrics related to species identity [percentage of singletons and ?(W)] were most sensitive to soil fertility, whereas those metrics related to environmental gradients and abundance [(?(R2) and ?(MV)] were more associated with climate variability. Interactions among soil variables, climatic factors and plant cover were not important determinants of beta diversity. Sites receiving less than 178 mm of annual rainfall differed sharply in species composition from more mesic sites (> 200 mm). Main conclusions: Soil fertility and variability in temperature and rainfall are the most important environmental predictors of variation in plant beta diversity in global drylands. Our results suggest that those sites annually receiving c. 178 mm of rainfall will be especially sensitive to future climate changes. These findings may help to define appropriate conservation strategies for mitigating effects of climate change on dryland vegetation
metadata.dc.identifier.other: 10.1111/jbi.12377
URI : http://dspace.utpl.edu.ec/handle/123456789/19104
ISBN : 3050270
Otros identificadores : 10.1111/jbi.12377
Otros identificadores : 10.1111/jbi.12377
metadata.dc.language: Inglés
metadata.dc.type: Article
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