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Título: Linking spatial scale dependence of land-use descriptors and invertebrate cave community composition
Palavras-chave: Subterranean
Habitat heterogeneity
Land-use
Limestone outcrop
Native vegetation
Cattle pasture
Data do documento: 3-Jun-2016
Editor: Pensoft Publishers
Citação: PELLEGRINI, T. G. et al. Linking spatial scale dependence of land-use descriptors and invertebrate cave community composition. Subterranean Biology, [S.l.], v. 18, p. 17-38, 2016.
Resumo: Patterns of biodiversity respond to habitat disturbances and different land-uses. Those patterns possibly vary according to the spatial scale under analysis. Although other studies have shown such responses for different systems, no study has ever demonstrated spatial-scale influences in subterranean terrestrial communities. Therefore, the objective of this paper was to analyze how land use and cave physical structure could influence the terrestrial cave invertebrate species composition. We also determined the influence of different spatial scale on the structure of invertebrate cave composition. We collected environmental data at local scale (e.g. cave size, substrate and environmental stability). For spatial scale we determined land uses at three different landscape scales; we gathered these data into circular areas of different sizes (50, 100 and 250 meters) with centroids in the cave entrances. We finally performed three Distance Based Linear Modeling analyses to test for differences among the predictability of environmental variables when comparing different spatial scales. The best explanatory variable for cave invertebrate similarities was the percentage of covering of the external environment by limestone outcrops. We confirm the scale-dependence hypothesis through the different patterns showed among distinct buffer areas. Models become more precise when larger scales were analyzed to explain cave invertebrate composition. This suggests that larger scales capture important environmental features that explain the cave fauna similarities more precisely. Additionally, we found a strong influence of limestone outcrops at all landscape scale structuring cave communities.
URI: http://repositorio.ufla.br/jspui/handle/1/32005
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