Resilience of tropical invertebrate community assembly processes to a gradient of land use intensity
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Understanding how community assembly processes drive biodiversity patterns is a central goal of community ecology. While it is generally accepted that ecological communities are assembled by both stochastic and deterministic processes, quantifying their relative importance remains challenging. Few studies have investigated how the relative importance of stochastic and deterministic community assembly processes vary among taxa and along gradients of habitat degradation. Using data on 1645 arthropod species across seven taxonomic groups in Malaysian Borneo, we quantified the importance of ecological stochasticity and of a suite of community assembly processes across a gradient of logging intensity. The relationship between logging and community assembly varied depending on the specific combination of taxa and stochasticity metric used, but, in general, the processes that govern invertebrate community assembly were remarkably robust to changes in land use intensity.
Date Issued
2024-02
Date Acceptance
2023-11-02
Citation
OIKOS, 2024, 2024 (2)
ISSN
0030-1299
Publisher
Wiley
Journal / Book Title
OIKOS
Volume
2024
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Authors. Oikos published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Nordic Society Oikos.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
License URL
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.10328
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
e10328
Date Publish Online
2023-12-22