期刊
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
卷 23, 期 8, 页码 2107-2126出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0707-5
关键词
Climate change; Urbanization; Long-term change; Life-history traits; Resurvey; Overwintering diapause; Migrant species; Habitat specialization
资金
- National Science Foundation [DBI 0956389]
- Margaret C. Walker Fund
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0956389] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Div Of Biological Infrastructure [0956389] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Increases in water demand, urbanization, and severity of drought threaten freshwater ecosystems of the arid western United States. Historical assessments of change in assemblages over time can help determine the effects of these stressors but, to date, are rare. In the present study, we resurveyed 45 sites originally sampled in 1914-1915 for Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) adults throughout central California and northwestern Nevada, USA. We examined changes in species occurrence rates, taxonomic richness, and biological trait composition in relation to climate changes and human population increases. While species richness at individual sites did not change significantly, we found that odonate assemblages have become more similar across sites. Homogenization is a result of the expansion of highly mobile habitat generalists, and the decline of both habitat specialists and species with an overwintering diapause stage. Using a multi-species mixed-effects model, we found that overall occurrences of Odonata increased with higher minimum temperatures. Habitat specialists and species with a diapause stage, however, occurred less often in warmer regions and more often in areas with higher precipitation. Habitat specialists occurred less often in highly populated sites. Life history traits of Odonata, such as dispersal ability, habitat specialization, and diapause, are useful predictors of species-specific responses to urbanization and climate change in this region.
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