Impacts of rubber plantations on community assembly of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a case study from monsoonal tropics of Xishuangbanna, southwest China

	Impacts of rubber plantations on community assembly of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a case study from monsoonal tropics of Xishuangbanna, southwest China
	Alcantara, Mark Jun M.1,2,3; Modi, Shrushti 1,2,4; Ling, Tial C.2,3,5,6; Monkai, Jutamart 2,7,8; Xu, He 1,2,9; Huang, Shuyin 1; Nakamura, Akihiro 1,2
通讯作者	Nakamura, Akihiro(a.nakamura@xtbg.ac.cn)
	2022-06-01
发表期刊	NORTH-WESTERN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
ISSN	1584-9074
卷号	18 期号:1 页码:1-8
摘要	Rubber plantation has become one of the most dominant human-modified landscape features in continental Southeast Asia. Xishuangbanna, a monsoonal tropical region of southern Yunnan in China, is a hotspot of rubber cultivation and represents the northern margins of rubber expansion in Asia. Here, we compared the species richness, beta diversity patterns, and assemblage composition of ants from a rubber plantation and two forest types (alluvial and limestone forest) common in Xishuangbanna. We hypothesized that species richness is higher in forest habitats than the rubber plantation. Due to habitat similarities between the limestone forest and the rubber plantation (tree defoliation, dry condition, thinner soil), we hypothesized that ant assemblages in these habitats are similar, and beta diversity is driven by nestedness. We found the highest ant species richness in the alluvial forest, followed by the limestone forest and rubber plantation. Ant assemblages were similar between alluvial and limestone forests but different in the rubber plantation. Beta diversity estimation showed that beta diversity patterns were driven by species turnover in all three habitats. Our results showed that the rubber plantation was species-poor and harbored unique ant assemblages compared to forest habitats. Moreover, the assemblages in the rubber plantation were often dominated by numerically dominant and aggressive taxa. Our study highlights: biodiversity changes associated with forest conversion into monoculture rubber plantations; the conservation value of limestone forests, a common yet understudied forest type in Southeast Asia; and the importance of considering species identities when determining the impacts of habitat modification on ant diversity.
关键词	biodiversity Formicidae Hevea brasiliensis IndVal Menglun Southeast Asia Winkler extractor
收录类别	SCI ; SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000814087800002
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.kib.ac.cn/handle/151853/73852
专题	中国科学院东亚植物多样性与生物地理学重点实验室
通讯作者	Nakamura, Akihiro
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, CAS Key Lab Trop Forest Ecol, Mengla 666303, Yunnan, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Xishuangbanna Trop Bot Garden, Program Field Studies Trop Asia, Mengla 666303, Yunnan, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Wildlife Inst India, Dept Anim Ecol & Conservat Biol, Dehra Dun 248001, Uttarakhand, India 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Key Lab Plant Divers & Biogeog East Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Inst Tibetan Plateau Res Kunming, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, Peoples R China 7.Chinese Acad Sci, Kunming Inst Bot, Ctr Mt Ecosyst Studies, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, Peoples R China 8.World Agroforestry Ctr East & Cent Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, Peoples R China 9.Linyi Univ, Inst Geol & Paleontol, Linyi 276000, Shandong, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Alcantara, Mark Jun M.,Modi, Shrushti,Ling, Tial C.,et al. Impacts of rubber plantations on community assembly of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a case study from monsoonal tropics of Xishuangbanna, southwest China[J]. NORTH-WESTERN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY,2022,18(1):1-8.
APA	Alcantara, Mark Jun M..,Modi, Shrushti.,Ling, Tial C..,Monkai, Jutamart.,Xu, He.,...&Nakamura, Akihiro.(2022).Impacts of rubber plantations on community assembly of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a case study from monsoonal tropics of Xishuangbanna, southwest China.NORTH-WESTERN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY,18(1),1-8.
MLA	Alcantara, Mark Jun M.,et al."Impacts of rubber plantations on community assembly of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a case study from monsoonal tropics of Xishuangbanna, southwest China".NORTH-WESTERN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 18.1(2022):1-8.