Affiliation:
1. Área de Ecología, Departamento de Biología Aplicada Universidad Miguel Hernández Elche Spain
2. Centro de Investigación e Innovación Agroalimentaria y Agroambiental (CIAGRO‐UMH) Universidad Miguel Hernández Elche Spain
3. Swiss Ornithological Institute Sempach Switzerland
4. Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología Universidad de Murcia Murcia Spain
Abstract
AbstractAimWhen studying the effects of global change on biodiversity, it is far more common for the effects of climate change and land‐use changes to be assessed separately rather than jointly. However, the effects of land‐use changes in recent decades on species richness in areas affected by climate change have been less studied. We assess the temporal turnover in species richness of an avian community between a historical period and a modern one as a consequence of global change.LocationSemiarid Mediterranean ecosystem (southeastern Spain).MethodWe fitted a hierarchical multispecies occupancy model for each period (1991–1992, and 2012–2017), obtaining avian species‐specific estimates of occupancy probability in relation to environmental covariates (elevation and forest cover). We analyse the relationships between changes in the bird community and environmental variables, analysing the temporal turnover of the species richness and the richness‐based species‐exchange ratio.ResultsThe estimated species richness accounting for detectability was higher than observed species richness, and decreased in the more recent period. Following our hypotheses, we observed a dual pattern of species richness increase associated with different elevations, showing different species turnover rates due to the joint effects of climate change and land‐use change. There is a trend towards greater species richness with higher elevations that is associated with climate change, where the species turnover rate is low. Also, species richness increased towards lower elevations, but with a high turnover rate. The latter can be due to species expansions throughout new habitat configurations in bordering forest systems associated with anthropic land‐use changes.ConclusionsOur study is of great interest to understand the temporal turnover of avian species richness associated with areas experiencing both climate and land‐use change.
Funder
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
Subject
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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