Species richness-environment relationships of European arthropods at two spatial grains

We study how species richness of arthropods relates to theories concerning net primary productivity, ambient energy, water-energy dynamics and spatial environmental heterogeneity. We use two datasets of arthropod richness with similar spatial extents (Scandinavia to Mediterranean), but contrasting s...

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Autores: Entling, Martin H., Schweiger, Oliver, Bacher, Sven, Espadaler, Xavier|||0000-0002-7681-5957, Hickler, Thomas, Kumschick, Sabrina, Woodcock, Ben A.|||0000-0003-0300-9951, Nentwig, Wolfgang
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Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
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Palavra-chave:Artròpodes
Arthropods
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spelling Species richness-environment relationships of European arthropods at two spatial grainshabitats and countriesEntling, Martin H.Schweiger, OliverBacher, SvenEspadaler, Xavier|||0000-0002-7681-5957Hickler, ThomasKumschick, SabrinaWoodcock, Ben A.|||0000-0003-0300-9951Nentwig, WolfgangArtròpodesArthropodsWe study how species richness of arthropods relates to theories concerning net primary productivity, ambient energy, water-energy dynamics and spatial environmental heterogeneity. We use two datasets of arthropod richness with similar spatial extents (Scandinavia to Mediterranean), but contrasting spatial grain (local habitat and country). Samples of ground-dwelling spiders, beetles, bugs and ants were collected from 32 paired habitats at 16 locations across Europe. Species richness of these taxonomic groups was also determined for 25 European countries based on the Fauna Europaea database. We tested effects of net primary productivity (NPP), annual mean temperature (T), annual rainfall (R) and potential evapotranspiration of the coldest month (PETmin) on species richness and turnover. Spatial environmental heterogeneity within countries was considered by including the ranges of NPP, T, R and PETmin. At the local habitat grain, relationships between species richness and environmental variables differed strongly between taxa and trophic groups. However, species turnover across locations was strongly correlated with differences in T. At the country grain, species richness was significantly correlated with environmental variables from all four theories. In particular, species richness within countries increased strongly with spatial heterogeneity in T. The importance of spatial heterogeneity in T for both species turnover across locations and for species richness within countries suggests that the temperature niche is an important determinant of arthropod diversity. We suggest that, unless climatic heterogeneity is constant across sampling units, coarse-grained studies should always account for environmental heterogeneity as a predictor of arthropod species richness, just as studies with variable area of sampling units routinely consider area. 22012-01-0120122012-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/108826https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045875reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengEuropean Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 506675European Commission https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 226852Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia CGL2007-64080-C02-01open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:1088262026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Species richness-environment relationships of European arthropods at two spatial grains
habitats and countries
title Species richness-environment relationships of European arthropods at two spatial grains
spellingShingle Species richness-environment relationships of European arthropods at two spatial grains
Entling, Martin H.
Artròpodes
Arthropods
title_short Species richness-environment relationships of European arthropods at two spatial grains
title_full Species richness-environment relationships of European arthropods at two spatial grains
title_fullStr Species richness-environment relationships of European arthropods at two spatial grains
title_full_unstemmed Species richness-environment relationships of European arthropods at two spatial grains
title_sort Species richness-environment relationships of European arthropods at two spatial grains
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Entling, Martin H.
Schweiger, Oliver
Bacher, Sven
Espadaler, Xavier|||0000-0002-7681-5957
Hickler, Thomas
Kumschick, Sabrina
Woodcock, Ben A.|||0000-0003-0300-9951
Nentwig, Wolfgang
author Entling, Martin H.
author_facet Entling, Martin H.
Schweiger, Oliver
Bacher, Sven
Espadaler, Xavier|||0000-0002-7681-5957
Hickler, Thomas
Kumschick, Sabrina
Woodcock, Ben A.|||0000-0003-0300-9951
Nentwig, Wolfgang
author_role author
author2 Schweiger, Oliver
Bacher, Sven
Espadaler, Xavier|||0000-0002-7681-5957
Hickler, Thomas
Kumschick, Sabrina
Woodcock, Ben A.|||0000-0003-0300-9951
Nentwig, Wolfgang
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Artròpodes
Arthropods
topic Artròpodes
Arthropods
description We study how species richness of arthropods relates to theories concerning net primary productivity, ambient energy, water-energy dynamics and spatial environmental heterogeneity. We use two datasets of arthropod richness with similar spatial extents (Scandinavia to Mediterranean), but contrasting spatial grain (local habitat and country). Samples of ground-dwelling spiders, beetles, bugs and ants were collected from 32 paired habitats at 16 locations across Europe. Species richness of these taxonomic groups was also determined for 25 European countries based on the Fauna Europaea database. We tested effects of net primary productivity (NPP), annual mean temperature (T), annual rainfall (R) and potential evapotranspiration of the coldest month (PETmin) on species richness and turnover. Spatial environmental heterogeneity within countries was considered by including the ranges of NPP, T, R and PETmin. At the local habitat grain, relationships between species richness and environmental variables differed strongly between taxa and trophic groups. However, species turnover across locations was strongly correlated with differences in T. At the country grain, species richness was significantly correlated with environmental variables from all four theories. In particular, species richness within countries increased strongly with spatial heterogeneity in T. The importance of spatial heterogeneity in T for both species turnover across locations and for species richness within countries suggests that the temperature niche is an important determinant of arthropod diversity. We suggest that, unless climatic heterogeneity is constant across sampling units, coarse-grained studies should always account for environmental heterogeneity as a predictor of arthropod species richness, just as studies with variable area of sampling units routinely consider area.
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