Letter. Habitat selection behaviour links local and regional scales in aquatic systems
Letter. Habitat selection behaviour links local and regional scales in aquatic systems
The role of habitat selection behaviour in the assembly of natural communities is an increasingly important theme in ecology. At the same time, ecologists and conservation biologists are keenly interested in scale and how processes at scales from local to regional interact to determine species distributions and patterns of biodiversity. How important is habitat selection in generating observed patterns of distribution and diversity at multiple spatial scales? In theory, habitat selection in response to interacting species can generate both positive and negative covariances among species distributions and create the potential to link processes of community assembly across multiple scales. Here I demonstrate that habitat selection by treefrogs in response to the distribution of fish predators functions at both the regional scale among localities and the local scale among patches within localities, implicating habitat selection as a critical link between local communities and the regional dynamics of metacommunities in complex landscapes.
aquatic systems, biodiversity, communities, habitat selection, local/regional processes, metacommunities, oviposition site choice, spatial scale, species distributions, species interactions
480-486
Resetarits, William J.
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1 May 2005
Resetarits, William J.
73532e80-93e6-49a5-8b1b-1b3f0843aa6b
Resetarits, William J.
(2005)
Letter. Habitat selection behaviour links local and regional scales in aquatic systems.
Ecology Letters, 8 (5), .
(doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00747.x).
Abstract
The role of habitat selection behaviour in the assembly of natural communities is an increasingly important theme in ecology. At the same time, ecologists and conservation biologists are keenly interested in scale and how processes at scales from local to regional interact to determine species distributions and patterns of biodiversity. How important is habitat selection in generating observed patterns of distribution and diversity at multiple spatial scales? In theory, habitat selection in response to interacting species can generate both positive and negative covariances among species distributions and create the potential to link processes of community assembly across multiple scales. Here I demonstrate that habitat selection by treefrogs in response to the distribution of fish predators functions at both the regional scale among localities and the local scale among patches within localities, implicating habitat selection as a critical link between local communities and the regional dynamics of metacommunities in complex landscapes.
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Published date: 1 May 2005
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aquatic systems, biodiversity, communities, habitat selection, local/regional processes, metacommunities, oviposition site choice, spatial scale, species distributions, species interactions
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