A comparison on the impacts of short-term micro-environmental and long-term macro-climatic variability on structuring beta diversity of microarthropod communities |
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Institution: | 1. Key Laboratory of Biopesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, China;2. Department of Animal Science, Fujian Vocational College of Agriculture, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, China;3. Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 31, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic;1. Bio-Evaluation Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Cheongju 363-883, Republic of Korea;2. Entomology Program, Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-921, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Biology Education, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju 660-701, Republic of Korea;4. R&D Headquarters, Nongwoo Bio Co., Yeoju 469-885, Republic of Korea |
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Abstract: | It is unknown whether long-term climatic variability or short-term microhabitat environmental fluctuation would be the key mechanism in determining the microarthropod compositional variation. In the present brief report, by utilizing microarthropod communities as the study model, I aimed to test the relative importance of macro-climatic versus micro-environmental variability on structuring the beta diversity patterns of microarthropod communities. The random sampling effect in quantifying beta diversity has been controlled using a null model. Variation partitioning technique is employed to test the relative importance of both mechanisms. The results showed that microarthropod beta diversity pattern is exclusively influenced by micro-environmental condition, especially for oribatids and collembolans. The influence of macro-climatic variability on structuring microarthropod community structure is exactly zero as indicated by variation partitioning analyses. Correspondingly, the interaction between micro-environment and macro-climate plays no roles on structuring microarthropod beta diversity too. Conclusively, microhabitat condition, but not regional climate, is the driver of microarthropod diversity patterns in SW Canada. |
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