期刊
ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 7, 期 9, 页码 3190-3200出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2849
关键词
aquatic insect; diversity decline; freshwaters; integrity; landscape
资金
- Brazilian National Science and Technology (CNPq)
- Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology-Biodiversity and Land Use in the Amazon [574008/2008-0]
- Brazilian Agricultural Research Company, ENBRAPA [SEG: 02.08.06.005.00]
- Darwin Initiative [17-023]
- CNPq [303252/2013-8]
- Nature Conservancy
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) [NE/F01614X/1, NE/G000816/1]
- NERC [NE/G000816/1, NE/F01614X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/G000816/1, NE/F01614X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
An important aspect of conservation is to understand the founding elements and characteristics of metacommunities in natural environments, and the consequences of anthropogenic disturbance on these patterns. In natural Amazonian environments, the interfluves of the major rivers play an important role in the formation of areas of endemism through the historical isolation of species and the speciation process. We evaluated elements of metacommunity structure for Zygoptera (Insecta: Odonata) sampled in 93 Amazonian streams distributed in two distinct biogeographic regions (areas of endemism). Of sampled streams, 43 were considered to have experienced negligible anthropogenic impacts, and 50 were considered impacted by anthropogenic activities. Our hypothesis was that preserved (negligible impact) streams would present a Clementsian pattern, forming clusters of distinct species, reflecting the biogeographic pattern of the two regions, and that anthropogenic streams would present random patterns of metacommunity, due to the loss of more sensitive species and dominance of more tolerant species, which have higher dispersal ability and environmental tolerance. In negligible impact streams, the Clementsian pattern reflected a strong biogeographic pattern, which we discuss considering the areas of endemism of Amazonian rivers. As for communities in human-impacted streams, a biotic homogenization was evident, in which rare species were suppressed and the most common species had become hyper-dominant. Understanding the mechanisms that trigger changes in metacommunities is an important issue for conservation, because they can help create mitigation measures for the impacts of anthropogenic activities on biological communities, and so should be expanded to studies using other taxonomic groups in both tropical and temperate systems, and, wherever possible, at multiple spatial scales.
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