Can changes in ant diversity along elevational gradients in tropical and subtropical Australian rainforests be used to detect a signal of past lowland biotic attrition?
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| 作者 | Burwell, Chris J. ; Nakamura, Akihiro |
| 刊名 | AUSTRAL ECOLOGY
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| 出版日期 | 2016 |
| 卷号 | 41期号:2页码:209-218 |
| 关键词 | elevation Formicidae latitude lowland biotic attrition rainforest |
| 中文摘要 | Increasing temperatures are predicted to have profound effects on montane ecosystems. In tropical forests, biotic attrition may reduce lowland diversity if losses of species due to upslope range shifts are not matched by influxes of warmer-adapted species, either because there are none or their dispersal is impeded. Australian rainforests consist of a north-south chain of patches, broken by dry corridors that are barriers to the dispersal of rainforest species. These rainforests have repeatedly contracted and expanded during Quaternary glacial cycles. Many lowland rainforests are expansions since the Last Glacial Maximum and may, therefore, show a signal of historical biotic attrition. We surveyed ants from replicated sites along three rainforest elevational transects in eastern Australia spanning 200 to 1200m a.s.l. and nearly 14 degrees of latitude. We examined elevational patterns of ant diversity and if there was possible evidence of lowland biotic attrition. Each transect was in a different biogeographic region; the Australian Wet Tropics (16.3 degrees S), the central Queensland coast (21.1 degrees S) and subtropical south-eastern Queensland (28.1 degrees S). We calculated ant species density (mean species per site) and species richness (estimated number of species by incorporating site-to-site species turnover) within elevational bands. Ant species density showed no signal of lowland attrition and was high at low and mid-elevations and declined only at high elevations at all transects. Similarly, estimated species richness showed no evidence of lowland attrition in the Wet Tropics and subtropical south-east Queensland; species richness peaked at low elevations and declined monotonically with increasing elevation. Persistence of lowland rainforest refugia in the Wet Tropics during the Last Glacial Maximum and latitudinal range shifts of ants in subtropical rainforests during the Holocene climatic optimum may have counteracted lowland biotic attrition. In central Queensland, however, estimated richness was similar in the lowlands and mid-elevations, and few ant species were indicative of lower elevations. This may reflect historical biotic attrition due perhaps to a lack of lowland glacial refugia and the isolation of this region by a dry forest barrier to the north. |
| 公开日期 | 2016-05-24 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.xtbg.org.cn/handle/353005/9869]  |
| 专题 | 西双版纳热带植物园_森林生态研究组 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Burwell, Chris J.,Nakamura, Akihiro. Can changes in ant diversity along elevational gradients in tropical and subtropical Australian rainforests be used to detect a signal of past lowland biotic attrition?[J]. AUSTRAL ECOLOGY,2016,41(2):209-218. |
| APA | Burwell, Chris J.,&Nakamura, Akihiro.(2016).Can changes in ant diversity along elevational gradients in tropical and subtropical Australian rainforests be used to detect a signal of past lowland biotic attrition?.AUSTRAL ECOLOGY,41(2),209-218. |
| MLA | Burwell, Chris J.,et al."Can changes in ant diversity along elevational gradients in tropical and subtropical Australian rainforests be used to detect a signal of past lowland biotic attrition?".AUSTRAL ECOLOGY 41.2(2016):209-218. |
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