Responses of ‘resistant’ vertebrates to habitat loss and fragmentation: the importance of niche breadth and range boundaries

By Robert Swihart, T. M. Gehring, M. B. Kolozsvary, Thomas E. Nupp. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Climate change hastens the turnover of stream fish assemblages (2008, background): “…with numerous studies dealing with other flora and fauna, where species having the narrowest niche were found to be the most affected by climate change in terms of habitat loss (Swihart et al., 2003; Thuiller et al., 2005a; Broennimann et al., 2006; Menendez et al., 2006; Wilson et al., 2007).”
The roles of landscape context, niche breadth, and range boundaries in predicting species responses to habitat alteration (2006, background): “Effects of range boundaries in Swihart et al. (2003) were dominated by amphibians, whereas the taxonomic distribution in the current study was more uniform.”
Do geographic distribution, niche property and life form explain plants' vulnerability to global change? (2006, background): “…(i.e. species with requirements which do not correspond to the mean climate conditions prevailing in the study area) – should be more sensitive to climate change than species that have their optimum close to or coinciding with the centroid of the realized environmental space (Swihart et al., 2003).”
Habitat specialisation and overlap in a guild of coral reef cardinalfishes (Apogonidae) (2005, background): “This information is also vital to predict how individual species and whole communities will respond to the degradation of their habitats (Hawkins et al. 2000, Swihart et al. 2003, Jones et al. 2004).”
Community structure and differential responses of aquatic turtles to agriculturally induced habitat fragmentation (2006, background): “today are tolerant of human activity (Swihart et al. 2003).”
Contrasts between habitat generalists and specialists: an empirical extension to the basic metacommunity framework. (2009, background): “…altered dramat- ically, its effect should be higher on abundance of habitat specialists (Vazquez and Simberloff 2002), as observed in communities of birds (Julliard et al. 2004), mammals and amphibians (Swihart et al. 2003), butterflies (Cleary and Genner 2004), and coral reef gobies (Munday 2004).”
Model selection in ecology and evolution. (2004, background): “Community ecology Modeling effects of fire on community organization [60] Landscape ecology Predicting how vertebrate populations respond to habitat loss and fragmentation [ 61 ]”
Differential impact of landscape transformation on pumas (Puma concolor) and jaguars (Panthera onca) in the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest (2011, background): “Wide-ranging species are often generalist species, with broad habitat-use ecological niches (Lawton, 1993; Swihart et al., 2003; Jetz et al., 2008).”
Effects of habitat degradation on the abundance, richness and diversity of raptors across Neotropical biomes (2009, background): “However, when a raptor community contains a large number of generalist species that may adapt to human-modified habitats (Swihart et al., 2003), raptor abundance can lose its tendency to reflect habitat degradation (Rodríguez-Estrella et al.”
Mesopredators dominate competition for carrion in an agricultural landscape (2011, background): “The relatively low diversity of scavengers we recorded was expected given the species-poor nature of most vertebrate communities found in intensively farmed landscapes (Benton et al. 2003; Swihart et al. 2003).”
Changes in mesopredator-community structure in response to urbanization (2004, background): “Although all of these species are considered urban-adapted, studies have documented that they use the landscape slightly differently (Crooks 2002; Gehring and Swihart 2003; Swihart et al. 2003).”
Amphibian sensitivity to habitat modification is associated with population trends and species traits (2017, background): “Extrinsic variables: Human footprint Areas heavily transformed by human activity may support a disproportionate number of disturbance-tolerant species if sensitive species have been locally extirpated (Swihart et al., 2003) Land use Land uses that exhibit high abiotic/biotic contrast with natural ha”