Diversity erosion beyond the species level : Dramatic loss of functional diversity after selective logging in two tropical amphibian communities

By R. Ernst, K. Linsenmair, Mark‐Oliver Rödel. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa. (2009, background): “Declines in species diversity due to agricultural intensification have been documented for birds ( Donald et al. 2001 ), mammals (Sotherton 1998), insects (Benton et al. 2002), and plants (Aebischer 1991) at national and landscape scales.”
Influence of forest cover and mesohabitat types on functional and taxonomic diversity of fish communities in Neotropical lowland streams (2012, background): “This approach has also been useful to identify functional changes along gradients of deforestation (Ernst et al. 2006; Barragán et al. 2011), and its use in streams is promising because little is known about how different components of biodiversity in these environments respond to human impacts.”
Diversidades filogenética e funcional: novas abordagens para a Ecologia de comunidades (2009, background): “Além disso, a diversidade funcional mostrou-se mais interessante na avaliação e monitoramento de impactos ambientais quando comparada com a riqueza de espécies (Ernst et al. 2006).”
Topographic and edaphic effects on the distribution of terrestrially reproducing anurans in Central Amazonia: mesoscale spatial patterns (2007, background): “Structurally simple habitats may contain fewer species, so that local species richness is also associated with structural diversity of the habitat (Ernst & Rödel 2005, Ernst et al. 2006, Heinen 1992).”
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Herpetofaunal Sampling Techniques across a Gradient of Habitat Change in a Tropical Forest Landscape (2008, background): “…herpetofauna in the Amazon basin has been limited to relatively pristine sites (Duellman, 2005; Gardner et al., 2007a), and we know little about the consequences of different types of habitat change for amphibians and reptiles in tropical forests (e.g., Ernst et al., 2006; Gardner et al., 2007b,c).”
A meta-analysis of the effect of forest management for timber on understory plant species diversity in temperate forests (2013, background): “Additionally, structural and functional diversity are likely more important than species diversity for various ecosystem services (interception, infiltration, nutrient uptake), and the two may be disparately affected following harvesting (Ernst et al., 2006).”
Invasion Complexities: The Diverse Impacts of Nonnative Species on Amphibians (2014, background): “Much of this literature links modified habitat to the loss of amphibian species or shows an overall negative trend in amphibian species abundances and distributions due to anthropogenic disturbance (Trombulak and Frissell, 2000; Ficetola and De Bernardi, 2004; Ernst et al., 2006; McKinney, 2008).”
Habitat degradation increases functional originality in highly diverse coral reef fish assemblages (2016, background): “…this hypothesis exists from hoverflies to birds, suggesting that functional richness, evenness, divergence, dispersion, and specialization decrease after disturbance, parti cularly in the context of habitat degradation (Ernst et al. 2006, Schweiger et al. 2007, Flynn et al. 2009, Bihn et al. 2010).”
Using plant functional traits to explain community composition across a strong environmental filter in Australian alpine snowpatches (2011, background): “As such, measures of functional diversity (and their shifts) can be used to determine community responses to current and future environmental filters (Dı́az and Cabido 2001), as well as land-use intensification (Flynn et al. 2009; Mayfield et al. 2010) and disturbance regimes (Ernst et al. 2006).”