Effects of topography on structuring species assemblages in a   subtropical forest

doi:10.1093/jpe/rtw047

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	Effects of topography on structuring species assemblages in a subtropical forest
	Wang, Qinggang ; Punchi-Manage, Ruwan ; Lu, Zhijun ; Franklin, Scott B. ; Wang, Zhiheng ; Li, Yaoqi ; Chi, Xiulian ; Bao, Dachuan ; Guo, Yili ; Lu, Junmeng ; Xu, Yaozhan ; Qiao, Xiujuan ; Jiang, Mingxi
刊名	JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY
	2017
关键词	multivariate regression tree analysis habitat filtering rare species Badagongshan MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION TREES LANKAN DIPTEROCARP FOREST HABITAT ASSOCIATIONS RAIN-FOREST PLANT-COMMUNITIES SPATIAL-PATTERNS TROPICAL FOREST BETA DIVERSITY DISTRIBUTIONS RARE
DOI	10.1093/jpe/rtw047
英文摘要	Aims Topography has long been recognized as an important factor in shaping species distributions. Many studies revealed that species may show species-habitat associations. However, few studies investigate how species assemblages are associated with local habitats, and it still remains unclear how the community-habitat associations vary with species abundance class and life stage. In this study, we analyzed the community-habitat associations in a subtropical montane forest. Methods The fully mapped 25-ha (500 x 500 m) forest plot is located in Badagongshan Nature Reserve in Hunan Province, Central China. It was divided into 625 (20 x 20 m) quadrats. Habitat types were classified by multivariate regression tree analyses that cluster areas with similar species composition according to the topographic characteristics. Indicator species analysis was used to identify the most important species for structuring species assemblages. We also compared the community-habitat associations for two levels of species abundances (i.e. abundant and rare) and three different life stages (i.e. saplings, juveniles and adults), while accounting for sample size effects. Important Findings The Badagongshan plot was divided into five distinct habitat types, which explained 34.7% of the variance in tree species composition. Even with sample size taken into account, community-habitat associations for rare species were much weaker than those for abundant species. Also when accounting for sample size, very small differences were found in the variance explained by topography for the three life stages. Indicator species of habitat types were mainly abundant species, and nearly all adult stage indicator species were also indicators in juvenile and sapling stages. Our study manifested that topographical habitat filtering was important in shaping overall local species compositions. However, habitat filtering was not important in shaping rare species' distributions in this forest. The community-habitat association patterns in this forest were mainly shaped by abundant species. In addition, during the transitions from saplings to juveniles, and from juveniles to adults, the relative importance of habitat filtering was very weak.; National Natural Science Foundation of China [31270562, 30900178, 31200329, 31500337]; Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, CAS [Y455432J02]; Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network [29200931131101919]; SCI(E); 中国科学引文数据库(CSCD); ARTICLE; 3; 440-449; 10
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/472948]
专题	城市与环境学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Qinggang,Punchi-Manage, Ruwan,Lu, Zhijun,et al. Effects of topography on structuring species assemblages in a subtropical forest[J]. JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY,2017.
APA	Wang, Qinggang.,Punchi-Manage, Ruwan.,Lu, Zhijun.,Franklin, Scott B..,Wang, Zhiheng.,...&Jiang, Mingxi.(2017).Effects of topography on structuring species assemblages in a subtropical forest.JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY.
MLA	Wang, Qinggang,et al."Effects of topography on structuring species assemblages in a subtropical forest".JOURNAL OF PLANT ECOLOGY (2017).