Consistency in bird community assembly over medium-term along rural-urban gradients in Argentina  

作　　者：Lucas M.Leveau 

机构地区：[1]Departamento de Ecología,Genética y Evolución,Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales,Universidad de Buenos Aires–IEGEBA(CONICET–UBA),Ciudad Universitaria,Pab 2,Piso 4,1426 Buenos Aires,Argentina

出　　处：《Ecological Processes》2021年第1期449-458,共10页生态过程（英文）

基　　金：funded by Project PICT-2015-0978 of the Agencia Nacional de Promoción de la Investigación,el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación.

摘　　要：Background:The analysis of bird community assembly rules is fundamental to understand which mechanisms determine the composition of bird species in urban areas.However,the long-term variation of community assembly rules has not been analyzed yet.The objectives of this study are(1)to analyze the variation of community assembly rules along rural-urban gradients of three cities in central Argentina and(2)to compare the patterns of community assembly between two periods separated by 6 years.Bird surveys were performed along transects in urban,suburban,and rural habitats during 2011 and 2017.Departures from null models that took into account differences in species richness(standardized effect size,SES)were calculated for functional and phylogenetic diversities.Results:A total of 57 species were recorded.Bird species richness was higher in suburban than in urban and rural habitats.SES of functional diversity increased over the years and was significantly lower in urban habitats than in rural habitats,showing a pattern of functional clustering in the most urbanized areas and functional randomness in rural ones.Phylogenetic diversity was higher in both suburban and urban habitats than rural ones,and the phylogenetic clustering in rural bird assemblages changed to randomness in suburban and urban habitats.Conclusions:Bird communities in urban habitats were phylogenetically random and functionally clustered,evidencing environmental filtering by urbanization.In contrast,bird communities in rural areas tended to be phylogenetically clustered,evidencing that certain clades are adapted to rural areas.The processes structuring bird communities along rural-urban gradients were consistent between the 2 years compared.

关 键 词：BIRDS INTERANNUAL Latin America NEOTROPICS URBANIZATION 

分 类 号：Q958[生物学—动物学]