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- Title
Stochastic processes shape the functional and phylogenetic structure of bird assemblages at the mine area in southwest China.
- Authors
Liu, Shilong; Zhou, Tianlong; Tan, Xiaocai; Mtemi, Wambura M; Jiang, Aiwu
- Abstract
Understanding the mechanisms of community assembly is a key question in ecology. Metal pollution may result in significant changes in bird community structure and diversity, with implications for ecosystem processes and function. However, the relative importance of these processes in shaping the bird community at the polluted area is still not clear. Here, we explored bird species richness, functional, and phylogenetic diversity, and the assembly processes of community at the mine region of southwest China. Our results showed that the 3 dimensions of diversity at the mine area were lower than that at the reference sites. In the community assembly, the result was 0 < NRI/ NFRI < 1.96, which indicated deterministic processes (environmental filtering) might drive community clustering. The results of the neutral community model, and normalized stochasticity ratio, showed the dominant role of stochastic processes in shaping the bird community assembly. We further quantified the community-level habitat niche breadth (Bcom), and we found that there was no difference in Bcom -value between the mine area and reference sites. This indicates that the bird communities at the mine area and 3 reference sites were not subjected to extreme environmental selection (same or different resource allocation) to form a highly specialized niche. These findings provide insights into the distribution patterns and dominant ecological processes of bird communities under metal exposure, and extend the knowledge in community assembly mechanisms of bird communities living in the mine area.
- Subjects
CHINA; STOCHASTIC processes; BIRD communities; DETERMINISTIC processes; RESOURCE allocation; ECOSYSTEMS
- Publication
Current Zoology, 2024, Vol 70, Issue 2, p204
- ISSN
1674-5507
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cz/zoad013