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  • 1 Butterflies are frequently used to investigate Neotropical diversity, but the family Hesperiidae is almost never employed as a focal group. Sampling Hesperiidae with artificial lures has been used to assist in species richness estimates of males that use bird droppings as a resource, but its effectiveness for estimating total hesperiid site diversity is unknown.
  • 2 This study characterises species richness and abundance in a diverse assemblage of Hesperiidae sampled at artificial lures. Sampled and estimated richness among taxonomic subsets were compared to the known site richness. These comparisons are used to assess artificial lures as a method for sampling total richness of Hesperiidae. We tested for potential differences in attraction in lures placed with and without the presence of army ant swarms.
  • 3 Five years of intermittent sampling with lures recovered 65% of the known Hesperiidae species richness at the study site. We found the subfamilies were differentially attracted to lures, where 86% of Eudaminae, 56% of Hesperiinae and 55% of Pyrginae species known from the site were recovered by lures. Species accumulation and taxonomic diversity differed among lures placed alone, and those placed in the presence of army ants.
  • 4 Our results suggest that sampling with artificial lures can be used to estimate diversity of Neotropical Eudaminae and a few tribes of Hesperiinae at some sites. Available evidence indicates that Hesperiidae feeding at bird droppings is predominately a Neotropical phenomenon. Finally, we conclude that estimating diversity in Neotropical Hesperiidae will require long‐term studies that use multiple sampling techniques.
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Forest fragmentation and degradation leads to formation of modified habitats whose ability to support existing avifaunal diversity is still largely unknown. Bird diversity in indigenous forest, disturbed forest, plantation forest and farmlands adjacent to North Nandi Forest reserve was studied between January 2015 and June 2015. The distribution of bird feeding guilds in these habitat patches was also evaluated. Birds were surveyed using point counts, timed species counts and line transects and classified into six feeding guilds. A total of 3,232 individual birds of 151 species were recorded in the four habitats. Significant difference on bird abundance across the four habitats (F = 15.141, P ≤ 0.05, df = 3, 1121) was noted. Shannon–Weiner diversity index H′ for bird community ranged from 3.06 for plantation forest to 4.05 for disturbed forest showing a relatively diverse bird community. Insectivores (F = 3.090, P ≤ 0.05, df = 3, 297) dominated the foraging species assemblage in all the habitats significantly. Linear regression analysis revealed a strong linear relationship on bird species richness and abundance with vegetation variables (P < 0.01 in all cases). The results indicate that disturbed forest and indigenous forest support high bird species richness than plantation forest and farmlands. However, high bird abundance was observed in farmlands and plantation forest as opposed to indigenous forest and disturbed forest as they provide dispersal routes over a short distance and are important for creating corridors between primary forests.  相似文献   

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The Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus population in the Pyrenees is managed using feeding stations to increase breeding success and reduce mortality in the pre-adult population. Nevertheless, very little quantitative and qualitative information has been published on such basic aspects of the species' ecology as feeding habits and dietary preferences. This study investigated both aspects through direct and unbiased observation of breeding Bearded Vultures during the chick-rearing period. Bearded Vulture diet comprises mammals (93%), birds (6%) and reptiles (1%), with medium-sized ungulates (mainly sheep/goats) the most important species in the diet (61%, n  = 677). Prey items were not selected in proportion to their availability, with the remains of larger species (cows and horses) being avoided, probably due to the variable cost/benefit ratios in handling efficiency, ingestion process and transport. There is no relationship between the proportion of sheep limbs in the diet and the proximity of feeding stations, suggesting that these sites are probably less important for breeding adults than for the pre-adult population. On the other hand, diet specificity seems related to productivity, with territories with greater trophic breadth being those with higher fecundity. Bearded Vultures prefer to eat limbs, although meat remains (provided principally by small mammals) can play an important role in guaranteeing breeding success during the first few weeks after hatching. The management of carrion provided by animals that die naturally in extensive livestock practices and the remains of wild ungulates which have died naturally or by human hunting, are important conservation tools for the Bearded Vulture and other carrion-eating species.  相似文献   

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The interaction between land use and climate change is expected to strongly affect species distributions along high elevation landscapes. We aimed to test the effect of climatic variables on community metrics among five types of land use in a high elevation landscape. We described dung beetle spatial and temporal taxonomic and functional diversity patterns, and partitioned β‐diversity into turnover and nestedness components. The interaction between land use and daily period of activity mostly drives abundance, functional richness and functional diversity, but not dung beetle species richness. Unlike Neotropical lowlands, species richness and abundance in open environments are similar to those existing in forests. Temperature is an important predictor of abundance and functional divergence. There is a higher spatial component of the taxonomic β‐diversity, which is highly driven by species turnover. The temporal component of the taxonomic β‐diversity was strongly driven by nestedness, where night assemblages are sub‐sets, although not entirely, of diurnal assemblages. For functional diversity, the temporal β‐diversity was much higher than the spatial β‐diversity, but both were similarly represented by functional group turnover and nestedness. The composition of nocturnal and diurnal assemblages is clearly different, even more than the differences observed between habitats. However, taxonomic turnover is the dominant force between sampling sites while nestedness dominates the daily pattern. This means that forest habitats are unlikely to act as shelters for grassland species under a scenario of rising temperature.  相似文献   

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蚜虫寄主植物与取食部位的多样性   总被引:7,自引:0,他引:7  
在中国科学院动物研究所已有标本采集记录和国内外文献资料的基础上,分别从蚜虫类Aphidina科级和属级阶元系统研究世界范围内蚜虫寄主植物与取食部位的多样性.蚜虫的寄主植物种类繁多,涉及267科2120属,尤其以菊科、禾本科、豆科、伞形科、唇形科、蔷薇科、茜草科、兰科、壳斗科、杨柳科、胡桃科等植物为主.13科蚜虫的寄主植物差别很大:在科级水平,球蚜科Adelgidae、纩蚜科Mindaridae和平翅绵蚜科Phloeomyzidae的寄主植物类群比较单一,蚜科Aphididae和瘿绵蚜科Pemphigidae的寄主植物范围最为广泛;在属级水平,各属蚜虫间寄主植物也有明显差异,有143属蚜虫的寄主植物多于2科,其中蚜科的属占多数,蚜属Aphis、瘤蚜属Myzus、长管蚜属Macrosiphum、粗额蚜属Aulacorthum和声蚜属Toxoptera的寄主植物最多,各超过100科290属.在不同的寄主植物上寄生着不同种类的蚜虫,其中16科47属寄主植物上寄生的蚜虫多于14属.蚜虫在寄主植物上的取食部位丰富多样,可分为7类,分别为叶片、嫩梢、嫩枝、茎、花、根部、果实等.以叶片、茎、嫩枝和嫩梢为蚜虫主要取食部位.平翅绵蚜科主要取食嫩枝、茎和根部,短痣蚜科Anoeciidae主要取食叶片、嫩梢和根部,球蚜科、群蚜科Thelaxidae和毛管蚜科Greenideidae取食叶片、嫩梢、嫩枝和茎等部位,纩蚜科取食叶片、嫩梢、茎和花等部位,大蚜科Lachnidae和斑蚜科Drepanosiphidae除取食叶片、嫩梢、嫩枝、茎等部位外,前者还在根部取食,后者还寄生在果实上,根瘤蚜科Phylloxeridae在除花以外的其它6个部位取食,蚜科、瘿绵蚜科和毛蚜科Chaitophoridae的取食部位最为多样,它们在上述7个部位均可取食.还初步讨论了在不同寄主植物上蚜虫物种的分化,以及蚜虫与寄主植物之间的对应关系.  相似文献   

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Genetic variation is fundamental to population fitness and adaptation to environmental change. Human activities are driving declines in many wild populations and could have similar effects on genetic variation. Despite the importance of estimating such declines, no global estimate of the magnitude of ongoing genetic variation loss has been conducted across species. By combining studies that quantified recent changes in genetic variation across a mean of 27 generations for 91 species, we conservatively estimate a 5.4%–6.5% decline in within‐population genetic diversity of wild organisms since the industrial revolution. This loss has been most severe for island species, which show a 27.6% average decline. We identified taxonomic and geographical gaps in temporal studies that must be urgently addressed. Our results are consistent with single time‐point meta‐analyses, which indicated that genetic variation is likely declining. However, our results represent the first confirmation of a global decline and provide an estimate of the magnitude of the genetic variation lost from wild populations.  相似文献   

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Aim In terrestrial plant communities, the relationship between native species diversity and exotic success is typically scale‐dependent. It is often proposed that within local neighbourhoods, high native diversity limits resources, thereby inhibiting exotic success. However, environmental variation that manifests over space or time can create positive correlations between native diversity and exotic success at larger scales. In marine habitats, there have been few multi‐scale surveys of this pattern, so it is unclear how diversity, resource limitation and the environment influence the success of exotic species in these systems. Location Washington, USA. Methods I analysed nested spatial and temporal surveys of fouling communities, which are assemblages of sessile marine invertebrates, to test whether the relationships between native richness, resource availability and exotic cover supported the diversity‐stability and diversity‐resistance theories, to test whether these relationships changed with spatio‐temporal scale, and to explore the temperature preferences of native and exotic fouling species. Results Survey data failed to support diversity‐stability theory: space availability actually increased with native richness at the local neighbourhood scale, and neither space availability nor variability decreased with native richness across larger spatio‐temporal scales. I did find support for diversity‐resistance theory, as richness negatively correlated with exotic cover in local neighbourhoods. Unexpectedly, this negative correlation disappeared at intermediate scales, but emerged again at the regional scale. This scale‐dependent pattern could be partially explained by contrasting water temperature preferences of native and exotic species. Main conclusions Within local neighbourhoods, native diversity may inhibit exotic abundance, but the mechanism is unlikely related to resource limitation. At the largest scale, correlations suggest that native richness is higher in cooler environments, whereas exotic richness is higher in warmer environments. This large‐scale pattern contrasts with the typical plant community pattern, and has important implications for coastal management in the face of global climate change.  相似文献   

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Gastropods, particularly the opisthobranch Aplysia, represent an optimal biological model for system analysis in feeding behaviour.

In the present study, behaviour was monitored in seminatural conditions and for a time of sufficient length to investigate the organization of feeding activity in the medium and long term.

The experiments used Aplysia fasciata collected from the Tyrrhenian coasts. Electromyographic recordings were obtained by an electrode chronically implanted in a buccal muscle involved in feeding behaviour. The electromyograms, transformed by a circuit calculating the root mean square, were logged by a personal computer.

Data analysis, based on the study of the distributions of the intervals between elementary behavioural acts, showed that elementary feeding cycles are not continuous and randomly distributed during the day, but clustered in ‘sequences’. These frequently can be gathered in other defined temporal partitions or ‘groups’ that are finally lumped in ‘meals’.

Each interval distribution corresponds to a different functional state: (i) a ‘feeding’ state; (ii) an ‘attention’ state; (iii) a ‘non-feeding’ state.

The interval distributions reflect different central controls: long and medium term mechanisms guide the shift from the first two states to the third and back; short term mechanisms control the development of every feeding cycle and sequence.

Results are discussed in context of known physiological bases of feeding behaviour in Aplysia, and a simple theoretical model is outlined.  相似文献   

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1. In the current ecological classification of termites, four feeding groups (I–IV) are recognised, corresponding to a gradient of decomposition from sound wood to highly mineralised organic matter in the soil. 2. Nitrogen stable isotopes (hereafter δ15N) were used to place termites from French Guiana rainforests along a wood‐soil decomposition gradient, to test (i) whether feeding group assignation based on morphological characters was accurate and actually represented diet specialisation thresholds, and (ii) to what extent the dietary specialization of species is explained by phylogeny (phylogenetic autocorrelation). 3. δ15N values vary over a range of 13‰, suggesting that diet diversification contributes to the high species diversity in French Guiana. δ15N values span a similar interval in all Termitidae subfamilies. Ranges of different subfamilies broadly overlap, although each of them diversified preferentially on one side of the wood‐soil decomposition gradient. Congeneric species share similar feeding habits, whereas distant species tend to feed on distinct substrates. 4. Feeding groups did not completely match stable isotope data: there was no discontinuity between Groups III and IV, and no correlation between anatomical criteria used to distinguish these groups and δ15N values. Nor was there any consistent difference in δ15N values between wood feeders of the families Rhinotermitidae (Group I) and Termitidae (Group II). We also suggest that species feeding outside the wood‐soil gradient should be distinguished for their peculiar feeding requirements.  相似文献   

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Temporal Hierarchies of Variation and the Maintenance of Diversity   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
Abstract A general model shows how the long-term growth rate of a population can be partitioned into components representing various mechanisms of maintenance of species diversity. One component summarises the effects of fluctuation-independent mechanisms, which include classical resource partitioning and frequency-dependent herbivory. Two other components represent fluctuation-dependent mechanisms, the storage effect and relative nonlinearity of competition.
The general model shows how a community will track an equilibrium set by fluctuation-independent mechanisms and the environmental state when community dynamics are faster than the rate of environmental change. Fluctuation-dependent mechanisms can be important for diversity maintenance with or without such tracking, but on long timescales their effects are indistinguishable from those of fluctuation-independent mechanisms.
These considerations lead to a hierarchical view of mechanisms of diversity maintenance where the effects of different timescales are partitioned or merged depending on the timescale of observation. These issues are illustrated with model examples involving various combinations of resource partitioning, fluctuations in recruitment rates, variation in the timing of germination, and seasonality. The very long timescales associated with climate change contain many complexities but nevertheless many ideas applicable to shorter timescales may be useful in a modified form.  相似文献   

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We describe temporal changes in the genetic structure of populations of the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum micans Ehrenberg over a period of 2 years at Scripps Pier (La Jolla, CA, USA). We collected 12 water samples over the course of two blooms and analyzed 166 single‐cell isolates using randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis. Six PCR primers uncovered 27 polymorphic markers, allowing the identification of 40 unique haplotypes. Analysis of molecular variance demonstrated that >92% of the genetic variance was partitioned within water samples, providing evidence of high levels of genetic diversity and possibly sexual reproduction. Although the level of genetic diversity remained fairly stable over the sampled time interval, several populations (sampled in June 1998 and March 1999) exhibited significantly different genetic composition, demonstrating differences among bloom and nonbloom periods. About 40% of the isolates in each sample were identified as one haplotype, suggesting that a genetically distinct subgroup was a common member of the populations during the sampled periods. The composition of the remaining isolates was genetically diverse and changed over time, indicating rapid responses (days) to changing environmental conditions or extensive genetic spatial patchiness (kilometers). Within the limitations of our sampling, these two genetically distinct groups appear to exhibit different population dynamics (one stable and the other variable), suggesting that genetic diversity may be closely linked to the change in abundance of phytoplankton on ecological time scales.  相似文献   

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《植物研究》2016,24(2)
应用RAPD技术对凉水国家自然保护区的天然红松(Pinus koraiensis)种群在时间尺度上的遗传多样性变化和遗传分化进行了分析。选择树龄为1~100 a的红松个体,每10 a为1个龄级,共采集样本245个。10个随机引物共检测到61个位点,其中多态位点50个,多态位点比率为81.97%。Shannon指数龄级间遗传多样性占总多样性的16.43%,Nei指数龄级间遗传分化为13.64%,两种指数都表明,红松在时间尺度上的遗传分化比空间尺度的低,红松的遗传变异主要存在于龄级内。本研究结果证实,凉水保护区内的红松遗传多样性在近100 a的时间内出现过大小两次波动,目前该地区的红松遗传多样性正处于上升时期;历史上小规模的采伐虽然暂时降低了红松的遗传多样性,但由于保护区的及时建立,红松的遗传多样性得到了有效的恢复。  相似文献   

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邵丹  裴赢  张恒庆 《植物研究》2007,27(4):473-477
应用叶绿体微卫星(cpSSR)技术对凉水国家自然保护区天然红松种群的遗传多样性在时间尺度上的变化进行了遗传分析。共选择121个树龄在1 581~1 900年间的红松个体,连续分为6个龄级。从6对叶绿体SSR引物筛选出两对引物,共检测到7个位点,其中多态位点5个,多态位点比率为71.43%。利用POPGENE分析软件计算了红松各龄级内的遗传多样性指数,分析了遗传多样性在红松各龄级间的变化。研究结果表明,凉水保护区内的红松遗传多样性在这320年间没有发生太大的波动,龄级间遗传多样性分化不明显,红松遗传多样性主要存在于龄级内。  相似文献   

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Cross‐feeding interactions are a common feature of many microbial systems, such as colonies of Escherichia coli grown on a single limiting resource, and microbial consortia cooperatively degrading complex compounds. We have studied this phenomenon from an abstract point of view by considering artificial organisms that metabolize binary strings from a shared environment. The organisms are represented as simple cellular automaton rules and the analog of energy in the system is an approximation of the Shannon entropy of the binary strings. Only organisms that increase the entropy of the transformed strings are allowed to replicate. This system exhibits a large degree of species diversity, which increases when the flow of binary strings into the system is reduced. Investigating the relation between ecosystem productivity and diversity we find that diversity is negatively correlated with biomass production and energy uptake, while it correlates positively with energy‐uptake efficiency. By performing invasion experiments, we show that the source of diversity is negative frequency‐dependent selection acting among the different species, and that some of these interactions are intransitive, another mechanism known to promote diversity.  相似文献   

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中国红树林湿地物种多样性及其形成   总被引:15,自引:0,他引:15       下载免费PDF全文
何斌源  范航清  王瑁  赖廷和  王文卿 《生态学报》2007,27(11):4859-4870
目前中国红树林湿地共记录了2854种生物,包括真菌136种、放线菌13种、细菌7种、小型藻类441种、大型藻类55种、维管束植物37种、浮游动物109种、底栖动物873种、游泳动物258种、昆虫434种、蜘蛛31种、两栖类13种、爬行类39种、鸟类421种和兽类28种。这些动物中有8种国家一级保护动物,75种二级保护动物。中国红树林湿地是中国濒危生物保存和发展的重要基地,并在跨国鸟类保护中起着重要作用。中国红树林湿地单位面积的物种丰度是海洋平均水平的1766倍。从初级生产物质基础、食物关系多样性、宏观尺度和微观尺度的空间异质性、生境利用的时序性等方面分析了中国红树林湿地物种多样性极其丰富的原因。  相似文献   

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In recent decades, hybridization has become a focus of attention because of its role in evolutionary processes. However, little is known about changes in genetic structure within and between parental species and hybrids over time. Here, we studied processes of genetic change in parental species and hybrids from the Daphnia longispina complex (Crustacea, Cladocera) over a period of six years across ten habitats. These cyclical parthenogens respond to fluctuating environments by switching from asexual to sexual reproduction. Importantly, sexually produced diapausing eggs, which resist extreme conditions such as low temperatures and serve as dispersal stages, are produced to a lower extent by hybrids. Long‐term microsatellite data revealed clear differences between hybrids and parental species. In hybrids, clonal diversity values were lower, whereas heterozygosity and linkage disequilibrium values were higher compared to parental species. Clonal diversity of hybrids responded to the strength of the winter, with cold winters resulting in few genotypes in the following spring. In time windows when only asexual hybrid females survive, priority effects will favour the establishment of the hybrid offspring before hatchlings from parental diapause eggs can enter the community. The constant high levels of heterozygosity maintained by clonal reproduction in hybrids might lead to their successful establishment over time, when they are able to escape competition from both parental species. Although we found evidence that hybrids diversity depends on fluctuating environments, a direct link between hybrid abundance and the strength of winter was missing. Because of reduced adaptability in clonally reproducing hybrids, multiple factors must contribute to promoting their long‐term success in fluctuating environments.  相似文献   

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Traps baited with the sex pheromone blend of (Z7)‐ and (Z5)‐tetradecenyl acetate captured significant numbers of male spotted cutworm moths, Xestia c‐nigrum (L.) compared to unbaited traps. Nearly no males were captured in traps baited with (Z7)‐tetradecenyl acetate, the major pheromone component. Antennae of spotted cutworm males responded to (Z7)‐, (E7)‐, (Z5)‐ and (E5)‐tetradecenyl acetate in the laboratory; however there was no response by moths in the field to the E isomers when presented in traps as major and minor components respectively of a binary blend or to the (E7) isomer as a single component. These findings clarify the makeup of a sex attractant that can be used for monitoring X. c‐nigrum on agricultural crops in Washington. However, multi‐year season‐long monitoring of spotted cutworm moths in Yakima Valley apple orchards revealed differential responses to pheromone and blacklight traps. A spring flight period showed a strong moth response to the pheromone compared to blacklight, while a later summer flight period showed a weak moth response to the pheromone relative to blacklight. At this time, we do not know which trap type might best indicate spotted cutworm abundance and risk to crops.  相似文献   

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Refugia are areas relatively buffered from contemporary climate change that enable the persistence of valued physical, ecological, or sociocultural resources. Spatially identifying refugia is important for conservation and applied management. Yet the concept of refugia has not been broadly extended to marine ecosystems. Here, we analyze data from a unique and long‐term (1999–2015) standardized survey of pelagic marine and anadromous species off Oregon and Washington in the northern California Current to identify such refugia. We use quantitative approaches to assess locations with high species richness and community persistence relative to local and basin‐scale environmental fluctuations. We have identified a potential climate change refugial zone along the continental shelf of Washington State in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean, characterized by a species‐rich community with low interannual temporal community change. This region contrasts with adjacent areas to the south and offshore that have lower species richness, and higher temporal species community change. Also, using spatially variant generalized additive mixed models, we identify areas with species compositions that are more influenced by basin‐scale climatic fluctuations than others. We propose that upwelling regions with retentive topographic features, such as wide continental shelves, can function as marine refugia for pelagic fauna, whereas offshore locations are potentially more climatically sensitive and experience high temporal change in species composition. Further identification of these marine refugia using in situ data for pelagic biodiversity and climatically sensitive areas can help guide management in the face of inevitable climatically driven change.  相似文献   

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