Spatial scale of observation affects α, β and γ diversity of cavity‐nesting bees and wasps across a tropical land‐use gradient

By J. Tylianakis, Alexandra-Maria Klein, T. Lozada, T. Tscharntke. 2006

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Aim Anthropogenic changes in land use may have major consequences for global biodiversity. However, species diversity is determined by a suite of factors that may affect species differently at different spatial scales. We tested the combined effects of land use and spatial scale on α, β and γ diversity in the tropics using experimental communities of cavity‐nesting bees and waSPS (Hymenoptera: Aculeata). We aimed to determine whether: (1) land‐use intensity negatively affects species richness of cavity‐nesting Hymenoptera, (2) β diversity, both within and between plots, is higher in more natural systems, (3) species richness of flowering herbs correlates positively with species richness of Hymenoptera within and across habitats, (4) richness of cavity‐nesting Hymenoptera in highly modified habitats declines with increasing distance from natural or semi‐natural habitats, (5) the effects of land use, herb diversity and forest distance on Hymenoptera α and β diversity vary at different spatial scales, and (6) bees and waSPS respond to land use in a similar way.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Building height matters: nesting activity of bees and wasps on vegetated roofs (2016, methodology): “Trap nests have been used in many ecological and conservation studies (Gathmann et al. 1994; Steffan-Dewenter et al. 2002; Tylianakis et al. 2006; Praz et al. 2008; MacIvor, Cabral, & Packer 2014) and they have been shown to reflect overall bee diversity (Westphal et al. 2008).”
The invasive Yellow Crazy Ant and the decline of forest ant diversity in Indonesian cacao agroforests (2008, background): “High species turnover between tropical habitats is common, and can result from habitat heterogeneity at the landscape scale (e.g., Tylianakis et al. 2006; Bos et al. 2007b).”
The spatial scaling of beta diversity (2013, background): “This may have limited or no effect on some groups of organisms that perceive and respond to plant composition at finer spatial scales (Tylianakis et al., 2006; Barton et al., 2010).”
Spatial scale and the diversity of macroinvertebrates in a Neotropical catchment (2010, background): “…has been favoured as a methodological approach to understand the relative importance of community heterogeneity among several spatial scales (Wagner, Wildi & Ewald, 2000; Crist et al., 2003; Gering, Crist & Veech, 2003; Stendera & Johnson, 2005; Tylianakis et al., 2006; Ribeiro et al., 2008).”
Avian biodiversity in multiple-use landscapes of the Brazilian Amazon (2013, background): “Third, we investigate how patterns of avian diversity are partitioned across multiple spatial scales and within each major land-use type, from point counts to transects to landscapes, and ask whether differences in total forest cover explain these patterns through relative contributions of the a, an”