Resilience of tropical invertebrate community assembly processes to a gradient of land use intensity

Granville, N. R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9031-9888, Barclay, M. V. L., Boyle, M. J. W., Chung, A. Y. C., Fayle, T. M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1667-1189, Hah, H. E., Hardwick, J. L., Kinneen, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5502-8113, Kitching, R. L., Maunsell, S. C., Miller, J. A., Sharp, A. C., Stork, N. E., Wai, L., Yusah, K. M. and Ewers, R. M. (2023) Resilience of tropical invertebrate community assembly processes to a gradient of land use intensity. Oikos. ISSN 1600-0706 doi: 10.1111/oik.10328

Abstract/Summary

Understanding how community assembly processes drive biodiversity patterns is a central goal of community ecology. While it is generally accepted that ecological communities are assembled by both stochastic and deterministic processes, quantifying their relative importance remains challenging. Few studies have investigated how the relative importance of stochastic and deterministic community assembly processes vary among taxa and along gradients of habitat degradation. Using data on 1645 arthropod species across seven taxonomic groups in Malaysian Borneo, we quantified the importance of ecological stochasticity and of a suite of community assembly processes across a gradient of logging intensity. The relationship between logging and community assembly varied depending on the specific combination of taxa and stochasticity metric used, but, in general, the processes that govern invertebrate community assembly were remarkably robust to changes in land use intensity.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/114707
Identification Number/DOI	10.1111/oik.10328
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development > Department of Sustainable Land Management > Centre for Agri-environmental Research (CAER)
Uncontrolled Keywords	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Publisher	Wiley
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