期刊
LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY
卷 26, 期 10, 页码 1405-1417出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9662-7
关键词
Habitat fragmentation; Plant diversity; Landscape spatial attributes; Functional group; Species-area relationship; Community assembly
资金
- NSFC [30770371]
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation [Z5100053]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Feeley lab group in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Land-bridge islands formed by dam construction are considered to be experimental systems for studying the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation, offering many distinct advantages over terrestrial fragments. The Thousand Island Lake in Southeast China is one such land-bridge system with more than 1000 islands. Based on a field survey of vascular plant richness on 154 land-bridge islands during 2007-2008, we examined the effects of island and landscape attributes on plant species richness and patterns of species nestedness. We also examined the different responses of plant functional groups (classified according to growth form and shade tolerance) to fragmentation. We found that island area explained the greatest amount of variation in plant species richness. Island area and shape index positively affected species diversity and the degree of nestedness exhibited by plant communities while the perimeter to area ratio of the islands had a negative effect. Shade-tolerant plants were the most sensitive species group to habitat fragmentation. Isolation negatively affected the degree of nestedness in herb and shade-intolerant plants including species with various dispersal abilities in the fragmented landscape. Based on these results, we concluded that the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on overall species richness depended mostly on the degree of habitat loss, but patterns of nestedness were generated from different ecological mechanisms due to species-specific responses to different characteristics of habitat patches.
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