Functional responses to anthropogenic disturbance and the importance of selected traits: A study case using dung beetles
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Título: | Functional responses to anthropogenic disturbance and the importance of selected traits: A study case using dung beetles |
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Autor/es: | Giménez Gómez, Victoria C. | Verdú, José R. | Casanoves, Fernando | Zurita, Gustavo A. |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Biodiversidad y Biotecnología aplicadas a la Biología de la Conservación |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales | Universidad de Alicante. Centro Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad |
Palabras clave: | Environmental disturbance | Ethological traits | Functional ecology | Morphological traits | Physiological traits | Scarabaeinae |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Zoología |
Fecha de publicación: | 14-feb-2022 |
Editor: | Wiley | Royal Entomological Society |
Cita bibliográfica: | Ecological Entomology. 2022, 47(4): 503-514. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13135 |
Resumen: | 1. Functional diversity has been defined as the value, range, distribution, and relative abundance of the functional traits of individuals that belong to an ecosystem. Thus, the functional response of organisms to environmental disturbances depends largely on their functional traits. 2. Here, we evaluated dung beetle functional diversity associated to the Atlantic Forest replacement using a matrix with 25 functional traits (10 morphological, four ethological, and 11 physiological). We compared functional diversity among native and disturbed habitats with a multi and single trait approach. 3. Contrary to previous studies, habitats with higher disturbance (open pasture) exhibited higher functional diversity compared to native forests, which could be explained by the incorporation of physiological response traits. Species of open disturbed habitats showed extreme values of such traits, explaining the observed pattern. 4. The inclusion of several traits that represent both species ecology and morphology, and their physiology, generates different results to those observed in previous functional studies. This highlights the importance of including a large variety of functional traits in future functional diversity studies. 5. We propose that functional traits must (1) be carefully chosen according to their biological and functional basis; (2) represent species ecology and physiology; and (3) include both effect and response traits. In addition, we consider it is extremely relevant to include a multi and single trait approach in functional diversity studies. A combination of all these considerations will provide a more realistic and complete overview of functional diversity patterns and the potential consequences of human disturbance on ecosystem functioning. |
Patrocinador/es: | Financial support was provided by UCAR-MAGyP (BIO 23, PIA 10105-14057 to G.A Zurita), ANPCyT (PICT-PRH 2702 to G.A Zurita), and CONICET (Doctoral fellowship to VC. Giménez Gómez). |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/121870 |
ISSN: | 0307-6946 (Print) | 1365-2311 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.1111/een.13135 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2022 Royal Entomological Society |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13135 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - BBaBC - Artículos de Revistas |
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