Distribution of specialist and generalist species along spatial gradients of habitat disturbance and fragmentation

By V. Devictor, Romain Julliard, Frédéric Jiguet. 2008

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

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Citations in the corpus

High mammal species turnover in forest patches immersed in biofuel plantations (2017, result): “For example, we found that the overall amount of forest edges best explained the occurrence of maned wolves, which is consistent with the patterns of open-habitat selection of this flagship cerrado species (Dietz, 1984), and their relatively low sensitivity to landscape change or disturbance (Devict”
Ecological and life-history traits predict bee species responses to environmental disturbances (2010, background): “The use of ecological variables offers a valuable alternative to assessing demographic variables that has been explored mostly in the context of habitat loss and fragmentation (McKinney, 1997; Davies et al., 2000; Zayed et al., 2004; Kolb and Diekmann, 2005; Cane et al., 2006; Devictor et al., 2008)”
Biotic homogenization: Loss of avian functional richness and habitat specialists in disturbed Andean temperate forests (2015, background): “…species are more prone to be negatively affected when habitat loss occurs rapidly (Clavel et al., 2011); therefore, we quantified the percentage of habitat loss (i.e. deforestation) as a measure of spatial instability of habitats within each site (Devictor et al., 2008a; Ibarra et al., 2014c).”
A species-centered approach for uncovering generalities in organism responses to habitat loss and fragmentation (2014, neutral): “Using the Breeding Bird Atlas for France, Devictor et al. (2008) found that habitat generalists (those using many coarsely deﬁ ned cover types) were far less sensitive to habitat loss and fragmentation than habitat specialists.”
Measuring community responses to large‐scale disturbance in conservation biogeography (2009, methodology): “SSI is the coefficient of variation of species densities across habitat classes and available for each bird species monitored by the FBBS in Devictor et al. (2008a).”
The same, but different: pollen foraging in honeybee and bumblebee colonies (2011, background): “…behavior is thought to enable them to switch from one plant species to another more easily than specialists (Johnson and Steiner 2000; Aizen and Feinsinger 2003; Biesmeijer et al. 2006; Steffan-Dewenter et al. 2006; Devictor et al. 2008; Klein 2011, but see Bommarco et al. 2010 and Winfree 2010).”