A SYNERGISTIC EFFECT PUTS RARE, SPECIALIZED SPECIES AT GREATER RISK OF EXTINCTION

By K. Davies, C. Margules, J. Lawrence. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “For example, rare species might be more prone to local extinction following fragmentation (Davies et al., 2004) but they could be occupying peripheral positions in the network, or may be central species.”
Local and landscape management drive trait‐mediated biodiversity of nine taxa on small grassland fragments (2015, background): “These species can be assumed to be most vulnerable due to very specific habitat requirements (Davies et al., 2004).”
Where have all the beetles gone? Long‐term study reveals carabid species decline in a nature reserve in Northern Germany (2019, background): “Species characteristics can be strongly correlated but not in a linear relationship over all species (cf. Davies et al., 2004; Laube et al., 2013).”
Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems (2015, background): “More realistic predictions of community responses to fragmentation emerged after explicit consideration of species traits such as rarity and trophic levels ( 48 , 49 ), dispersal mode ( 50 – 52 ), reproductive mode and life span ( 29 , 53 ), diet ( 54 ), and movement behavior ( 55 , 56 ).”
Ecological and life-history traits predict bee species responses to environmental disturbances (2010, background): “The interaction among life-history traits can be critical for understanding species responses to disturbance (Davies et al., 2004).”
Resistance and resilience: quantifying relative extinction risk in a diverse assemblage of Australian tropical rainforest vertebrates (2009, background): “For example, Cofre et al. (2007) found that rarity, in terms of geographical distribution, was associated with low clutch size, non-migratory status and high habitat specialization in Chilean birds, while Davies et al. (2004) show that abundance”
Synergies among extinction drivers under global change. (2008, background): “Together, these interacting and self-reinforcing systematic and stochastic processes play a dominant role in driving the dynamics of population trajectories as extinction is approached [4, 11 ], a concept we henceforth refer to as ‘extinction dynamics.’”
Moving beyond the guild concept: developing a practical functional trait framework for terrestrial beetles (2015, background): “Most have found that interactions among multiple traits were most useful for predicting which species are more at risk of extinction (Davies et al., 2004; Henle et al., 2004; Driscoll & Weir, 2005; Fattorini et al., 2013).”
Confounding factors in the detection of species responses to habitat fragmentation (2005, background): “For example, Davies et al. (2004) showed that a synergistic interaction between the traits of rarity and habitat specialisation made beetle species that were both rare and specialised more vulnerable to fragmentation than predicted by the simple additive effects of the two traits in isolation (Fig.”
Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real-world ecosystem service. (2015, background): “Rarity has less often been considered as a trait in this context, but might in fact have wider generality as a response trait than do morphological and other natural history traits, given the extinction-proneness of rare species (Davies et al. 2004).”