Amphibian Metacommunity Responses to Agricultural Intensification in a Mediterranean Landscape

Agricultural intensification has been associated with biodiversity declines, habitat fragmentation and loss in a number of organisms. Given the prevalence of this process, there is a need for studies clarifying the effects of changes in agricultural practices on local biological communities; for ins...

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Autores: Albero, Luís, Martínez-Solano, Íñigo, Arias, Ana, Lizana, Miguel, Bécares, Eloy
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Palabra clave:Agricultural management
Amphibians
Beta diversity
Community ecology
Metacommunities
http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
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spelling Amphibian Metacommunity Responses to Agricultural Intensification in a Mediterranean LandscapeAlbero, LuísMartínez-Solano, ÍñigoArias, AnaLizana, MiguelBécares, EloyAgricultural managementAmphibiansBeta diversityCommunity ecologyMetacommunitieshttp://metadata.un.org/sdg/15Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity lossAgricultural intensification has been associated with biodiversity declines, habitat fragmentation and loss in a number of organisms. Given the prevalence of this process, there is a need for studies clarifying the effects of changes in agricultural practices on local biological communities; for instance, the transformation of traditional rainfed agriculture into intensively irrigated agriculture. We focused on pond-breeding amphibians as model organisms to assess the ecological effects of agricultural intensification because they are sensitive to changes in habitat quality at both local and landscape scales. We applied a metacommunity approach to characterize amphibian communities breeding in a network of ponds embedded in a terrestrial habitat matrix that was partly converted from rainfed crops to intensive irrigated agriculture in the 1990s. Specifically, we compared alpha and beta diversity, species occupancy and abundance, and metacommunity structure between irrigated and rainfed areas. We found strong differences in patterns of species occurrence, community structure and pairwise beta diversity between agricultural management groups, with a marked community structure in rainfed ponds associated with local features and the presence of some rare species that were nearly absent in the irrigated area, which was characterized by a random community structure. Natural vegetation cover at the landscape scale, significantly lower on the irrigated area, was an important predictor of species occurrences. Our results suggest that maintaining both local and landscape heterogeneity is key to preserving diverse amphibian communities in Mediterranean agricultural landscapes.This research was funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, project Metaponds, (ref: CGL2017-84176-R); and by Fundación Biodiversidad, Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (project BT-2019). L. Albero is funded by a Phd grant from Universidad de León (ULE).Peer reviewedMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing InstituteMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (España)Universidad de LeónConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]202120212021info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501Publisher's versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10261/250458reponame:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSICinstname:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)Inglés#PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE#info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/CGL2017-84176-Rhttps://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/9/924Síinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digital.csic.es:10261/2504582026-05-22T06:33:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Amphibian Metacommunity Responses to Agricultural Intensification in a Mediterranean Landscape
title Amphibian Metacommunity Responses to Agricultural Intensification in a Mediterranean Landscape
spellingShingle Amphibian Metacommunity Responses to Agricultural Intensification in a Mediterranean Landscape
Albero, Luís
Agricultural management
Amphibians
Beta diversity
Community ecology
Metacommunities
http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
title_short Amphibian Metacommunity Responses to Agricultural Intensification in a Mediterranean Landscape
title_full Amphibian Metacommunity Responses to Agricultural Intensification in a Mediterranean Landscape
title_fullStr Amphibian Metacommunity Responses to Agricultural Intensification in a Mediterranean Landscape
title_full_unstemmed Amphibian Metacommunity Responses to Agricultural Intensification in a Mediterranean Landscape
title_sort Amphibian Metacommunity Responses to Agricultural Intensification in a Mediterranean Landscape
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Albero, Luís
Martínez-Solano, Íñigo
Arias, Ana
Lizana, Miguel
Bécares, Eloy
author Albero, Luís
author_facet Albero, Luís
Martínez-Solano, Íñigo
Arias, Ana
Lizana, Miguel
Bécares, Eloy
author_role author
author2 Martínez-Solano, Íñigo
Arias, Ana
Lizana, Miguel
Bécares, Eloy
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (España)
Universidad de León
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Agricultural management
Amphibians
Beta diversity
Community ecology
Metacommunities
http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
topic Agricultural management
Amphibians
Beta diversity
Community ecology
Metacommunities
http://metadata.un.org/sdg/15
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
description Agricultural intensification has been associated with biodiversity declines, habitat fragmentation and loss in a number of organisms. Given the prevalence of this process, there is a need for studies clarifying the effects of changes in agricultural practices on local biological communities; for instance, the transformation of traditional rainfed agriculture into intensively irrigated agriculture. We focused on pond-breeding amphibians as model organisms to assess the ecological effects of agricultural intensification because they are sensitive to changes in habitat quality at both local and landscape scales. We applied a metacommunity approach to characterize amphibian communities breeding in a network of ponds embedded in a terrestrial habitat matrix that was partly converted from rainfed crops to intensive irrigated agriculture in the 1990s. Specifically, we compared alpha and beta diversity, species occupancy and abundance, and metacommunity structure between irrigated and rainfed areas. We found strong differences in patterns of species occurrence, community structure and pairwise beta diversity between agricultural management groups, with a marked community structure in rainfed ponds associated with local features and the presence of some rare species that were nearly absent in the irrigated area, which was characterized by a random community structure. Natural vegetation cover at the landscape scale, significantly lower on the irrigated area, was an important predictor of species occurrences. Our results suggest that maintaining both local and landscape heterogeneity is key to preserving diverse amphibian communities in Mediterranean agricultural landscapes.
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