Ancient human colonization explains dung beetle species richness in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands

[Aim]: Different hypothesis have been proposed to explain differences in species richness among islands. However, few studies have attempted to compare the explanatory power of multiple hypotheses using a large data set. Here, we analyse how different types of predictors (energetic/climatic, environ...

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Autores: Tonelli, Mattia, Dellacada, Marco, Lobo, Jorge M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/336196
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/336196
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anthropic impact
Aphodiidae
Geotrupinae
Scarabaeinae
Species richness hypotheses
Survey effort
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spelling Ancient human colonization explains dung beetle species richness in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islandsTonelli, MattiaDellacada, MarcoLobo, Jorge M.Anthropic impactAphodiidaeGeotrupinaeScarabaeinaeSpecies richness hypothesesSurvey effort[Aim]: Different hypothesis have been proposed to explain differences in species richness among islands. However, few studies have attempted to compare the explanatory power of multiple hypotheses using a large data set. Here, we analyse how different types of predictors (energetic/climatic, environmental heterogeneity, island biogeography and anthropogenic) affect variation in dung beetle species richness on Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands.[Location: Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands.[Taxon]: Dung beetles.[Methods]: Using a large data set of islands (n= 147), we extracted the species richness of dung beetles on each island using 362 bibliographic reference sources. We performed GLMs to analyse the relationship between the species richness of dung beetles and 11 explanatory variables (temperature, evapotranspiration, aridity, area, maximum elevation, connection to continent during LGM, geological origin, distance from continent, nearest continent, years since first human colonization and human density) representing four types of causal hypotheses. We also included as a covariate the number of published papers studying dung beetles as a surrogate of the survey/study effort carried out in each island.[Results]: GLMs suggest that the years since first human colonization, the number of published papers and island area were the predictors with a higher explanatory capac-ity. The volcanic character of the islands and the distance from the mainland had some relevance in the case of Scarabaeinae and Geotrupinae, and maximum elevation ap-peared relevant in the species richness of Scarabaeinae and Aphodiidae. The anthro-pogenic and island biogeography hypotheses on the variation in species richness were the ones that have the strongest explanatory capacity, regardless of the inclusion of the surrogate of survey effort as a covariate in the models[Main conclusions]: The long history of human movements and agricultural activities has facilitated the colonization of dung beetles and provided trophic resources for their persis-tence, leading to increased species richness. Thus, the importance of anthropogenic fac-tors in shaping the biodiversity patterns of island biogeography cannot be ignored. These human-induced influences may play a fundamental role in altering the biogeographic patterns of islands, even overriding the importance of other variables. Consequently, our findings underline the profound impact of historical human actions on islands biodiversity.We acknowledge support of the publication fee by the CSIC Open Access Publication Support Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI).Peer reviewedJohn Wiley & SonsCSIC - Unidad de Recursos de Información Científica para la Investigación (URICI)Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202320232023info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/336196reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Ingléshttps://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14715Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/3361962026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Ancient human colonization explains dung beetle species richness in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands
title Ancient human colonization explains dung beetle species richness in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands
spellingShingle Ancient human colonization explains dung beetle species richness in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands
Tonelli, Mattia
Anthropic impact
Aphodiidae
Geotrupinae
Scarabaeinae
Species richness hypotheses
Survey effort
title_short Ancient human colonization explains dung beetle species richness in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands
title_full Ancient human colonization explains dung beetle species richness in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands
title_fullStr Ancient human colonization explains dung beetle species richness in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands
title_full_unstemmed Ancient human colonization explains dung beetle species richness in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands
title_sort Ancient human colonization explains dung beetle species richness in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Tonelli, Mattia
Dellacada, Marco
Lobo, Jorge M.
author Tonelli, Mattia
author_facet Tonelli, Mattia
Dellacada, Marco
Lobo, Jorge M.
author_role author
author2 Dellacada, Marco
Lobo, Jorge M.
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv CSIC - Unidad de Recursos de Información Científica para la Investigación (URICI)
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Anthropic impact
Aphodiidae
Geotrupinae
Scarabaeinae
Species richness hypotheses
Survey effort
topic Anthropic impact
Aphodiidae
Geotrupinae
Scarabaeinae
Species richness hypotheses
Survey effort
description [Aim]: Different hypothesis have been proposed to explain differences in species richness among islands. However, few studies have attempted to compare the explanatory power of multiple hypotheses using a large data set. Here, we analyse how different types of predictors (energetic/climatic, environmental heterogeneity, island biogeography and anthropogenic) affect variation in dung beetle species richness on Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands.
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