Extinction and colonisation of habitat specialists drive plant species replacement along a Mediterranean grassland-forest succession

Questions: land-use change causes shifts in species richness, which can be delayed. However, beta-diversity patterns and especially the relative role of species replacement and nestedness in these situations with time-lagged extinctions and colonisations remain unknown. We aim to (a) quantify beta-d...

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Authors: Bagaria Morató, Guillem|||0000-0001-6465-2866, Rodà, F. (Ferran), 1953-, Pino i Vilalta, Joan|||0000-0003-0939-7502
Format: article
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
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Keyword:Beta-diversity
Habitat change
Habitat specialists
Nestedness
Species replacement
Vascular plants
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spelling Extinction and colonisation of habitat specialists drive plant species replacement along a Mediterranean grassland-forest successionBagaria Morató, Guillem|||0000-0001-6465-2866Rodà, F. (Ferran), 1953-Pino i Vilalta, Joan|||0000-0003-0939-7502Beta-diversityHabitat changeHabitat specialistsNestednessSpecies replacementVascular plantsQuestions: land-use change causes shifts in species richness, which can be delayed. However, beta-diversity patterns and especially the relative role of species replacement and nestedness in these situations with time-lagged extinctions and colonisations remain unknown. We aim to (a) quantify beta-diversity change, species replacement and nestedness for vascular plants along a grassland-forest succession with time-lagged biodiversity change for more than 50 years; (b) check its consistency between all species, grassland specialists and forest specialists, and (c) identify the role of forest encroachment relative to other drivers. - Study site: Prades Mountains, Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula). - Methods: we sampled 18 sites representing a gradient in past and current grassland area and connectivity, and in forest encroachment intensity, to obtain plant composition of all species, grassland specialists and forest specialists. We quantified overall beta-diversity and its components at each species classification group along the forest encroachment gradient and other drivers. Then, we used general linear models to study (a) the change rate of beta diversity along the forest encroachment gradient and (b) the relative importance of the drivers in explaining beta diversity. - Results: following the forest encroachment gradient, we found an overall noticeable species replacement, while nestedness was the main component for habitat specialists. Landscape differences contributed to explaining most compositional differences (both nestedness and replacement), while soil characteristics and geographic distance had a more restricted contribution. - Conclusions: species replacement due to environmental sorting occurred over the succession, triggered by selective extinctions of grassland specialists and selective colonisations of forest specialists. Nonetheless, historical landscape characteristics, current landscape characteristics and geographic distance modulate plant extinctions and colonisations, suggesting biological inertia, mass effects and habitat isolation, respectively. Partitioning beta-diversity into nestedness and replacement components and exploring the extinction and colonisation patterns of habitat specialist groups might provide relevant insight into the drivers and processes of community shift after land-use change. 22019-01-0120192019-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501SMURhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_71e4c1898caa6e32info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/216994https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1111/jvs.12722reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329 CGL2012-33398Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003176 FPU-AP2009-4599Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004837 CSD2008-00040open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest material està protegit per drets d'autor i/o drets afins. Podeu utilitzar aquest material en funció del que permet la legislació de drets d'autor i drets afins d'aplicació al vostre cas. Per a d'altres usos heu d'obtenir permís del(s) titular(s) de drets.https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:2169942026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Extinction and colonisation of habitat specialists drive plant species replacement along a Mediterranean grassland-forest succession
title Extinction and colonisation of habitat specialists drive plant species replacement along a Mediterranean grassland-forest succession
spellingShingle Extinction and colonisation of habitat specialists drive plant species replacement along a Mediterranean grassland-forest succession
Bagaria Morató, Guillem|||0000-0001-6465-2866
Beta-diversity
Habitat change
Habitat specialists
Nestedness
Species replacement
Vascular plants
title_short Extinction and colonisation of habitat specialists drive plant species replacement along a Mediterranean grassland-forest succession
title_full Extinction and colonisation of habitat specialists drive plant species replacement along a Mediterranean grassland-forest succession
title_fullStr Extinction and colonisation of habitat specialists drive plant species replacement along a Mediterranean grassland-forest succession
title_full_unstemmed Extinction and colonisation of habitat specialists drive plant species replacement along a Mediterranean grassland-forest succession
title_sort Extinction and colonisation of habitat specialists drive plant species replacement along a Mediterranean grassland-forest succession
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Bagaria Morató, Guillem|||0000-0001-6465-2866
Rodà, F. (Ferran), 1953-
Pino i Vilalta, Joan|||0000-0003-0939-7502
author Bagaria Morató, Guillem|||0000-0001-6465-2866
author_facet Bagaria Morató, Guillem|||0000-0001-6465-2866
Rodà, F. (Ferran), 1953-
Pino i Vilalta, Joan|||0000-0003-0939-7502
author_role author
author2 Rodà, F. (Ferran), 1953-
Pino i Vilalta, Joan|||0000-0003-0939-7502
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Beta-diversity
Habitat change
Habitat specialists
Nestedness
Species replacement
Vascular plants
topic Beta-diversity
Habitat change
Habitat specialists
Nestedness
Species replacement
Vascular plants
description Questions: land-use change causes shifts in species richness, which can be delayed. However, beta-diversity patterns and especially the relative role of species replacement and nestedness in these situations with time-lagged extinctions and colonisations remain unknown. We aim to (a) quantify beta-diversity change, species replacement and nestedness for vascular plants along a grassland-forest succession with time-lagged biodiversity change for more than 50 years; (b) check its consistency between all species, grassland specialists and forest specialists, and (c) identify the role of forest encroachment relative to other drivers. - Study site: Prades Mountains, Catalonia (NE Iberian Peninsula). - Methods: we sampled 18 sites representing a gradient in past and current grassland area and connectivity, and in forest encroachment intensity, to obtain plant composition of all species, grassland specialists and forest specialists. We quantified overall beta-diversity and its components at each species classification group along the forest encroachment gradient and other drivers. Then, we used general linear models to study (a) the change rate of beta diversity along the forest encroachment gradient and (b) the relative importance of the drivers in explaining beta diversity. - Results: following the forest encroachment gradient, we found an overall noticeable species replacement, while nestedness was the main component for habitat specialists. Landscape differences contributed to explaining most compositional differences (both nestedness and replacement), while soil characteristics and geographic distance had a more restricted contribution. - Conclusions: species replacement due to environmental sorting occurred over the succession, triggered by selective extinctions of grassland specialists and selective colonisations of forest specialists. Nonetheless, historical landscape characteristics, current landscape characteristics and geographic distance modulate plant extinctions and colonisations, suggesting biological inertia, mass effects and habitat isolation, respectively. Partitioning beta-diversity into nestedness and replacement components and exploring the extinction and colonisation patterns of habitat specialist groups might provide relevant insight into the drivers and processes of community shift after land-use change.
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