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Geographic Ecology. On islands and habitat fragments on continents, species richness increases with area and decreases with isolation. Species richness on islands can be modeled as a dynamic balance between immigration and extinction of species. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Geographic Ecology
• On islands and habitat fragments on continents, species richness increases with area and decreases with isolation.
• Species richness on islands can be modeled as a dynamic balance between immigration and extinction of species.
• Species richness generally increases from middle and high latitudes to the equator.
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Introduction
• MacArthurMacArthur defined geographic ecology as the search for patterns of plant and animal life that can be put on a map.
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Island Area and Species Richness
• Preston found fewest bird species live on smallest islands and most species on largest islands.
• Nilsson et.al. found island area was best single predictor of species richness among woody plants, carabid beetles, and land snails.
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Habitat Patches on Continents: Mountain Islands
• As Pleistocene ended and climate warmed, forest and alpine habitats contracted to the tops of high mountains across American Southwest.– Woodlands, grasslands, and desert scrub,
invaded lower elevations.– Once continuous forest converted to series of
island-like fragments associated with mountains: montane.
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Kikuchi’s field vole
Fig. Neighbor-joining tree based on 703 bp of mtDNA control region sequences.
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• Habitat islands
• Global warming
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Number of species increases with area sampled.
• Arrhenius first formalized the species-area relationship as:
S = cAz
where: S = number of species encountered
A = area
c and z are fitted constants• After log transformation, the relationship is
linear:
logS = logc + zlogA
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Species-Area Relationships
• Analyses of many species-area relationships have shown that values of the slope, z, fall within the range 0.20 - 0.35.
• For continental areas, z is often between 0.15 and 0.25, which is lower than insular situations, where z is often between 0.20 to 0.40
• Are species-area relationships artifacts of larger sample size (more individuals) in larger areas?– comparisons of species numbers in different areas
where samples of similar size were used still reveals a species-area relationship
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Why do larger areas have more species?
• Larger areas have greater habitat heterogeneity.• For islands, size per se makes the island a
better target for potential immigrants from the mainland.
• Larger islands support larger populations, which persist because they have:– greater genetic diversity– broader distributions over habitats– numbers large enough to prevent stochastic
extinction
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Marine Islands
• MacArthur and Wilson found isolation reduces bird diversity on Pacific Islands.
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• Williamson summarized data from relationship between island area and species richness in Azore Islands:– Birds show clear influence of isolation on dive
rsity, pteridophytes do not.– Land birds fly across water barriers, pteridoph
ytes produce large quantities of light spores easily dispersed in the wind.
*dispersal ability
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Effect of distance on island immigration
• Tabulated land birds on island close to the source area (New Guinea), and assumed 100% of the available birds
• Documented drop-off in species with increasing distance to New Guinea
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Equilibrium Model of Island Biogeography
• MacArthur and Wilson: model explaining patterns of species diversity on islands as result of immigration and extinction rates.– Reasoned rates of immigration would be
highest on new island with no organisms.• As species began to accumulate, rate of
immigration would decline since fewer arrivals would be new species.
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Equilibrium Model of Island Biogeography
• Predicted rate of extinction would rise with increasing number of species on an island for three reasons:– Presence of more species creates a larger
pool of potential extinctions.– As # of species increases, population size of
each must diminish.– As # of species increases, potential for
competitive interactions between species will increase.
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Equilibrium Model of Island Biogeography
– Point where two lines cross predicts the number of species that will occur on an island.
– Proposed rates of extinction on islands would be determined mainly by island size.
• LG, near islands will support greatest #.• SM, far islands will support lowest #.• SM near and LG far will support intermediate #.
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Species Turnover
• Equilibrium model predicts spp. composition on islands is fluid:– Change referred to as species turnover.– Rate of species lost and other gained
• Diamond found birds in nine CA Channel Islands in a stable equilibrium as a result of immigration and extinction.
- compared his list to that of A. B. Howell (1917) - 5-10 species per island were no longer present, but just
as many species had not listed by Howell had apparently colonized the island – indicating turnover
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Experimental Island Biogeography
• Simberloff and Wilson studied insect recolonization in Florida Keys.– Chose 2 stands of mangroves as control
islands, and 6 others as experimental islands.• Defaunated islands
–Followed recolonization for 1 yr.»Species number stayed constant, but
composition changed considerably.
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Colonization of New Islands By Plants
• Rydin and Borgegard found variation in spp. richness correlated positively with island area and accounted for 44-85% of variation in spp. richness among islands.– Small and medium islands continued to
accumulate species.– Large islands attained equilibrium of immigration
and extinction.• Area or habitat effects?• Difficult to separate effects of habitat diversity from
area affects.
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Manipulating Island Area• Simberloff tested effect of island area on
species richness.– In all cases where area was reduced, species
richness decreased.• Richness on control island increased slightly.
– Islands with reduced area lost species with each reduction in area.
• Showed area has positive influence on species richness.
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Modifications to MacArthur & Wilson’s theory model
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Theory of Nature Reserve Design
• Larger is better than smaller
• One large area is better than several smaller areas (SLOSS)
• Corridors connecting isolated areas are desirable
• Circular areas are better than elongate ones with much edge
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Latitudinal Gradients inSpecies Richness
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Latitudinal Gradients in Species Richness
• Most groups of organisms are more species-rich in the tropics.
Hot Spot
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Species richness and elevation
decreases with increasing elevation
peaks at mid-elevation
(Sanders, 2002)
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Mid-elevation (small mammal diversity)
The elevation intermediate between the base and top of a mountain
In tropics, mountains reaching about 3000 meters which allows full development of lowland, montane and mossy forest, the pattern shows mid-elevation peak
(Heaney, 2001)
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Models of species diversity along enviromental gradients
Partially overlapping requirements
Diversity peaks at an intermediate point in the gradient
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(Brown, 2001)
Nested subset pattern at an intermediate point
Diversity peaks at an intermediate point
Models of species diversity along enviromental gradients
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(Md. Nor, 2001)
Mt. Kinabalu (4101 m), Malaysia
Small mammal diversity
Plant diversity
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Elevation distribution of small mammals in Yushan National Park
1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 m
Niviventer culturatus
Niviventer coxingi
Apodemus semotus
Microtus kikuchii
Tamiops maritimus
Ethenomys melanogaster
Anourosorex squamipes
Soriculus fumidus
Apodemus agrarius
(modified from Yu, 1994)
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Latitudinal Gradients in Species Richness
Brown grouped hypotheses into six categories:
-1. Time Since Perturbation• More species in the tropics because tropics are older
and disturbed less frequently.
– 2. Productivity• High productivity contributes to high species richness.
– More energy to divide among population.
– 3. Environmental Heterogeneity• More heterogeneity thus more potential habitat areas
and niches.
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Latitudinal Gradients in Species Richness
– 4. Favorableness• Tropics have more favorable environments.
– 5. Niche Breadth and Interspecific Interactions: a. tropical species limited more biological factors b. tropical species affected more by interspecific interaction c. niches of tropical species overlap more d. tropical species more specialized e. tropical species more subject to control by predation, parasitism, and pathogens f. tropical species more involved mutualistic interaction – 6. Speciation and Extinction Rates
• Rosenzweig proposed immigration can be largely discounted at broad scales, thus speciation will be primary source of new species.
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Historical and Regional Influences
• Latham and Ricklefs: reported striking contrast in diversity of temperate zone trees that cannot be explained by area effect.– Temperate forest biome in Europe, Eastern
Asia, and Eastern North America all have roughly equitable area, but support vastly different levels of biological diversity.
• Eastern Asia: 3x NA and 6x Europe.
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Historical and Regional Influences
• Latham and Ricklefs: Must examine conditions trees in these regions faced during the last glacial period.– Mountains in Europe form east-west oriented
barriers.• During last ice age, temperate trees had southward
retreat largely cut-off.– Lower species richness as consequence of higher extinction
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Historical and Regional Influences
Appalachian Mountains in N.A run north-south, thus temperate trees had an avenue of retreat as temperatures became colder.
• Also no mountain barriers in Asia.
• Concluded from various lines of evidence that most temperate tree taxa originated in Eastern Asia and dispersed to Europe and N.A..– After dispersal lines were cut, speciation
continued in Asia.
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Summary• On islands and habitat fragments on
continents, species richness increases with area and decreases with isolation.
• Species richness on islands can be modeled as a dynamic balance between immigration and extinction of species.
• Species richness generally increases from middle and high latitudes to the equator.
• Long-term historical and regional processes significantly influence ecosystem structure.