Using Habitat Characteristics to Predict Faunal Diversity in Tropical Production Forests

doi:10.1111/btp.12069

	Using Habitat Characteristics to Predict Faunal Diversity in Tropical Production Forests
	Lam, Tzeng Yih 1; Fletcher, Christine 2; Ramage, Benjamin S.1; Doll, Hannah M.1; Joann, C. Luruthusamy 2; Nur-Zati, A. Mustafa 3; Butod, Elizabeth 2; Kassim, Abdul R.2; Harrison, Rhett D.4,5; Potts, Matthew D.1
通讯作者	Lam,TY (reprint author),Univ Calif Berkeley,Dept Environm Sci Policy & Management,Berkeley,CA 94720 USA. ; tylam.forest@gmail.com
	2014
发表期刊	BIOTROPICA
ISSN	0006-3606
卷号	46 期号:1 页码:50-57
摘要	Biodiversity conservation in managed tropical forests is becoming increasingly important as forest area continues to decline. Accordingly, there is growing interest in developing conservation-driven silvicultural prescriptions and identifying indicator habitat metrics (similar to indicator taxa) that could be easily assessed via routine vegetation sampling. Successfully achieving these goals, however, requires an understanding of how habitat characteristics affect biodiversity. The purpose of this study was to determine the associations between the species diversity of three taxa (ants, insectivorous bats, and dung beetles) and the habitat characteristics of hill dipterocarp production forests. We sampled both within (three samples) and adjacent to (six samples) six Virgin Jungle Reserves distributed throughout Peninsular Malaysia, and related habitat predictors to univariate diversity metrics (species richness and Shannon diversity) as well as multivariate compositional metrics. We found that influential predictors and directional effects differed across taxa. Ant diversity was most affected by stand density and canopy cover, and positively associated with both. Bat diversity was most strongly linked to primary forest area, with smaller reserves harboring greater bat diversity. Dung beetles were most affected by canopy cover and elevation, with greater diversity at lower elevation and with less canopy cover. Our multivariate analyses did not reveal any strong relationships between species composition and habitat variables. Overall, our results provide evidence that tropical forest structure is associated with biodiversity, but also suggest that it will be difficult to identify a single silvicultural prescription or landscape management strategy to maximize the diversity of all three taxa simultaneously.
关键词	Biodiversity Enhancement Conservation Habitat Association Moist Tropical Forests Peninsular Malaysia Stand Management Structural Diversity
学科领域	Ecology
DOI	10.1111/btp.12069
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000329289900007
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/17986
专题	资源植物与生物技术所级重点实验室
作者单位	1.Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Environm Sci Policy & Management, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 2.Forest Res Inst Malaysia, Forestry & Environm Div, Kepong 52109, Selangor, Malaysia 3.Forest Res Inst Malaysia, Forest Biodivers Div, Kepong 52109, Selangor, Malaysia 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Kunming 650201, Peoples R China 5.East Asia Off, World Agroforestry Inst, Kunming 650201, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lam, Tzeng Yih,Fletcher, Christine,Ramage, Benjamin S.,et al. Using Habitat Characteristics to Predict Faunal Diversity in Tropical Production Forests[J]. BIOTROPICA,2014,46(1):50-57.
APA	Lam, Tzeng Yih.,Fletcher, Christine.,Ramage, Benjamin S..,Doll, Hannah M..,Joann, C. Luruthusamy.,...&Potts, Matthew D..(2014).Using Habitat Characteristics to Predict Faunal Diversity in Tropical Production Forests.BIOTROPICA,46(1),50-57.
MLA	Lam, Tzeng Yih,et al."Using Habitat Characteristics to Predict Faunal Diversity in Tropical Production Forests".BIOTROPICA 46.1(2014):50-57.

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