期刊
ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
卷 13, 期 6, 页码 1750-1761出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1890/02-5089
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Chihuahuan Desert; competition; conservation; dispersal limitation; geographic range; habitat selection; land management; landscape ecology; macroecology; natural resources management; species diversity
Many theories, hypotheses, and empirical studies seek to explain patterns of species richness, turnover, and distribution/abundance (i.e., diversity patterns) at various scales, but it is often not clear how these ideas relate to one another, or how they apply across scales. Consequently, it has been difficult to use diversity theory as a basis for understanding patterns at the intermediate (landscape) scales at which biodiversity is managed. Here, we present a framework for the study and management of diversity based on the ecological processes that influence the distribution of species at different scales. We use this framework to organize diversity theories into several classes based upon how the theories link patterns of habitat occupancy, landscape distribution, and geographic range for a variety of taxa. The processes contributing to diversity patterns depend on the characteristics of the taxa considered, the spatial scales at which organisms respond to environment, and the scales and other characteristics of the particular environments in which investigators hope to explain variation in diversity. At the scales traditionally considered by land managers and conservation biologists, biodiversity is determined by processes addressed by several bodies of theory. Of necessity, management decisions aimed at biodiversity as a whole are based either implicitly or explicitly on only a subset of biodiversity (e.g., single species or functional groups). We suggest that the translation of diversity theory into conservation practice can be achieved, at present, by considering a set of questions for each case: (1) which groups of organisms will be considered, (2) how do their domains of scale relate to the land area under consideration, (3) what processes are likely to be important determinants of species distribution at management scales, and (4) how will the proposed management activities interact with these processes? We illustrate this process using an example from the Chihuahuan Desert. We emphasize the value of considering species diversity theories in a pluralistic and case-specific way.
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