作者
Veronika Fontana, Elia Guariento, Andreas Hilpold, Georg Niedrist, Michael Steinwandter, Daniel Spitale, Juri Nascimbene, Ulrike Tappeiner, Julia Seeber
发表日期
2020/7/27
期刊
Scientific reports
卷号
10
期号
1
页码范围
12516
出版商
Nature Publishing Group UK
简介
To understand how diversity is distributed in space is a fundamental aim for optimizing future species and community conservation. We examined in parallel species richness and beta diversity components of nine taxonomic groups along a finite space, represented by pastured grasslands along an elevational gradient. Beta diversity, which is assumed to bridge local alpha diversity to regional gamma diversity was partitioned into the two components turnover and nestedness and analyzed at two levels: from the lowest elevation to all other elevations, and between neighboring elevations. Species richness of vascular plants, butterflies, beetles, spiders and earthworms showed a hump-shaped relationship with increasing elevation, while it decreased linearly for grasshoppers and ants, but increased for lichens and bryophytes. For most of the groups, turnover increased with increasing elevational distance along the …
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