Effects of anthropogenic habitat disturbance on local pollinator diversity and species turnover across a precipitation gradient |
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Authors: | Carolina Quintero Carolina Laura Morales Marcelo Adrián Aizen |
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Affiliation: | 1.Laboratorio Ecotono, Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medio Ambiente,Universidad Nacional del Comahue - CONICET,Bariloche, Río Negro,Argentina;2.Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,University of Colorado,Boulder,USA |
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Abstract: | Anthropogenic habitat disturbance can have profound effects on multiple components of forest biotas including pollinator assemblages. We assessed the effect of small-scale disturbance on local richness, abundance, diversity and evenness of insect pollinator fauna; and how habitat disturbance affected species turnover across the landscape and overall diversity along a precipitation gradient in NW Patagonia (Argentina). We evaluated the effect of disturbance on overall pollinator fauna and then separately for bees (i.e. Apoidea) and non-bee pollinators. Locally, disturbed habitats had significantly higher pollinator species richness and abundances than undisturbed habitats for the whole pollinator assemblage, but not for bees or non-bees separately. However, significant differences in species richness between habitats vanished after accounting for differences in abundance between habitat types. At a local scale Shannon–Weaver diversity and evenness did not vary with disturbance. A β diversity index indicated that, across forest types, species turnover was lower between disturbed habitats than between undisturbed habitats. In addition, rarefaction curves showed that disturbed habitats as a whole accumulated fewer species than undisturbed habitats at equivalent sample sizes. We concluded that small patches of disturbed habitat have a negligible effect on local pollinator diversity; however, habitat disturbance reduced β diversity through a homogenization of the pollinator fauna (in particular of bees) across the landscape. |
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