Resource Heterogeneity, Not Resource Quantity, Plays an Important Role in Determining Tree Species Diversity in Two Species-Rich Forests | |
Zhang, Liwen4; Mi, Xiangcheng4; Harrison, Rhett D.; Yang, Bo2; Man, Xingxing4; Ren, Haibao4; Ma, Keping4 | |
刊名 | FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
2020 | |
卷号 | 8 |
关键词 | resource quantity resource heterogeneity variation partitioning species richness ecological niche plant density spatial covariation |
ISSN号 | 2296-701X |
DOI | 10.3389/fevo.2020.00224 |
文献子类 | Article |
英文摘要 | There is still considerable debate about the relative importance of resource heterogeneity and resource quantity in the maintenance of species diversity in a community. The resource heterogeneity hypothesis proposes that spatial heterogeneity of limiting resources and inter-specific differences in resource requirements will determine species richness. In contrast, the resource quantity hypothesis predicts that average resource supply rates contribute to species richness by their effects on plant density and stochastic population dynamics. However, the evaluation of the two hypotheses in observational studies is associated with a major methodological challenge as average resource supply rate often covaries with resource heterogeneity. Using a novel approach derived from the relationships between average resource supply rate, resource heterogeneity (calculated as the standard deviation of environmental factors) and plant density in the resource hypotheses, we evaluated the relative importance of resource quantity and resource heterogeneity with a variation partitioning model in Gutianshan (GTS) forest plot, China, and Barro Colorado Island (BCI) forest plot, Central Panama. We found that resource quantity explained much less of the variation in species richness than resource heterogeneity in both GTS and BCI (44.5% vs. 4.9% in GTS and 20.4% vs. 0.8% in BCI at the 20 x 20 m scale, 57.5% vs. 3.4% in GTS at the 40 x 40 m scale, and 34.5% vs. 2.6% in BCI at the 50 x 50 m scale). We also found that resource heterogeneity governed species richness in GTS, whereas spatial processes dominated species diversity in BCI. Moreover, most of the effect of resource heterogeneity and resource quantity on species richness overlapped with that of spatial processes. This result indicates that most effects of resources could also be explained by spatial processes, such as dispersal limitation. Therefore, resource heterogeneity and spatial processes, but not resource quantity, played an important role in determining species diversity in these two old-growth forests. This is in contrast to the results of several manipulative studies, which found that resource quantity governed species diversity when one or a limited number of resources were considered. This suggests that the processes determining species richness along ecological gradients are complicated and determined by the interaction of various processes. |
学科主题 | Ecology |
出版地 | LAUSANNE |
WOS关键词 | BROAD-LEAVED FOREST ; ENVIRONMENTAL HETEROGENEITY ; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION ; HABITAT ASSOCIATIONS ; BETA DIVERSITY ; PLANT ; PRODUCTIVITY ; AVAILABILITY ; COEXISTENCE ; HYPOTHESIS |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
语种 | 英语 |
出版者 | FRONTIERS MEDIA SA |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000556770400001 |
资助机构 | NSFNational Science Foundation (NSF) [DEB 021104, 021115, 0212284, 0212818, OISE 0314581] ; National Science and Technology Support Program [2012BAC01B05] ; NSFC ProjectNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [31170401] ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS [2018247] ; STRI soils initiative |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
源URL | [http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/21641] |
专题 | 植被与环境变化国家重点实验室 |
作者单位 | 1.Jingdezhen Univ, Key Lab Plant Resources & Biodivers Jiangxi Prov, Jingdezhen, Peoples R China 2.Harrison, Rhett D.] World Agroforestry Ctr ICRAF, Eastern & Southern Africa Reg Off, Lusaka, Zambia 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, CAS Key Lab Coastal Environm Proc & Ecol Remediat, Yantai Inst Coastal Zone Res YIC, Yantai, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhang, Liwen,Mi, Xiangcheng,Harrison, Rhett D.,et al. Resource Heterogeneity, Not Resource Quantity, Plays an Important Role in Determining Tree Species Diversity in Two Species-Rich Forests[J]. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,2020,8. |
APA | Zhang, Liwen.,Mi, Xiangcheng.,Harrison, Rhett D..,Yang, Bo.,Man, Xingxing.,...&Ma, Keping.(2020).Resource Heterogeneity, Not Resource Quantity, Plays an Important Role in Determining Tree Species Diversity in Two Species-Rich Forests.FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION,8. |
MLA | Zhang, Liwen,et al."Resource Heterogeneity, Not Resource Quantity, Plays an Important Role in Determining Tree Species Diversity in Two Species-Rich Forests".FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 8(2020). |
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