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Title: Fragmentation effects on beta diversity of fragmented and conserved landscapes: insights about homogenization and differentiation processes
Keywords: Turnover
Nestedness
Anthropic disturbance
Habitat loss
Biotic homogenization
Beta diversity
Fragmentation
Perturbação antrópica
Perda de habitat
Homogeneização biótica
Diversidade beta
Paisagens fragmentadas
Issue Date: Apr-2022
Publisher: Sociedade Botânica do Brasil
Citation: ARAÚJO, F. de C. et al. Fragmentation effects on beta diversity of fragmented and conserved landscapes: insights about homogenization and differentiation processes. Acta Botanica Brasilica, Brasília, DF, v. 36, e2020abb0261, 2022. DOI: 10.1590/0102-33062020abb0261.
Abstract: Fragmentation is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss in tropical forests through consequences on their different components. Beta diversity patterns across fragments have been studied across multiple spatial scales, but comparisons with intact landscapes and in a variety of vegetation types are scarce. In order to address this issue of anthropogenic landscape disturbance, we tested two hypotheses relating to fragmentation and beta diversity: 1. Floristic homogenization at patch-level scale and 2. Floristic differentiation at landscape-level scale. The study was conducted in the Espinhaço Range biosphere reserve, Brazil. Three landscapes encompassing a broad range of vegetation types were sampled in 115 plots. Two landscapes were fragmented due to mining activities (Sabará and Brumadinho) and one is protected (Parque Estadual Serra do Rola-Moça). Results showed high overall beta diversity both between landscapes (conserved and fragmented) and vegetation types (forest, Brazilian savanna “campos rupestres”, ecotone and ironstone “canga”) with high turnover and species losses, even in highly disturbed vegetation types. The conserved landscape was most diverse in terms of richness. Thus, fragmentation effects differed from the expected with a main role of differentiation processes, and we argue that high beta diversity is not always a good predictor of ecosystem health.
URI: http://repositorio.ufla.br/jspui/handle/1/54418
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