scholarly journals The Impact of the Species–Area Relationship on Estimates of Paleodiversity

PLoS Biology ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. e266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony D Barnosky ◽  
Marc A Carrasco ◽  
Edward B Davis
Keyword(s):  
Species Area ◽  
Species Area Relationship ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Influence of urbanization on the avian species-area relationship: insights from the breeding birds of Rome

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Di Pietro ◽  
Cristina Mantoni ◽  
Simone Fattorini
Keyword(s):  
Central Italy ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Breeding Birds ◽  
Urban Gradient ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Species Area ◽  
Species Area Relationship ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractThe species-area relationship (SAR) is one of the most investigated patterns in ecology and conservation biology, yet there is no study testing how different levels of urbanization influence its shape. Here we tested the impact of urbanization on avian SARs along a rural-urban gradient using the breeding birds of Rome (Central Italy). We divided the city into 360 cells of 1 km2. Each cell was classified as rural, suburban or urban using the proportion of impervious surface calculated from remote sensing data. For each of these three landscape categories, we constructed a SAR as a species accumulation curve (Gleason function) using bird species distribution data. SAR intercepts (i.e. the number of species per unit area) decreased from rural to urban areas, which indicates that urbanization depressed the number of species, reflecting the loss of specialized species strictly associated with natural habitats. The slope was highest for the rural curve, indicating that natural landscapes have the highest turnover due to their higher habitat heterogeneity. A higher slope for the urban cells, compared to the suburban ones, can be explained by the presence of green spaces embedded in the built-up matrix which host different avian communities. Previous studies that compared whole cities with natural areas failed to find differences in the respective SARs. Our study, which constructed SARs for different levels of urbanization, indicated significant changes in the SARs along the rural-urban gradient. Further analyses in other cities and taxa will be useful to test how general are our findings.

scholarly journals The species–area relationship and evolution

2006 ◽  
Vol 241 (3) ◽  
pp. 590-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Lawson ◽  
Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Species Area ◽  
Species Area Relationship

Fragmentation, grazing and the species-area relationship

Ecography ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany L. Bogich ◽  
Gary M. Barker ◽  
Karin Mahlfeld ◽  
Frank Climo ◽  
Rhys Green ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Area ◽  
Species Area Relationship

Self‐Similarity, the Power Law Form of the Species‐Area Relationship, and a Probability Rule: A Reply to Maddux

2004 ◽  
Vol 163 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annette Ostling ◽  
John Harte ◽  
Jessica L. Green ◽  
Ann P. Kinzig
Keyword(s):  
Power Law ◽  
Self Similarity ◽  
Species Area ◽  
Species Area Relationship

scholarly journals A Phylogenetic Perspective on the Individual Species-Area Relationship in Temperate and Tropical Tree Communities

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. e63192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Yang ◽  
Nathan G. Swenson ◽  
Min Cao ◽  
George B. Chuyong ◽  
Corneille E. N. Ewango ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Tree ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Tree Communities ◽  
Species Area ◽  
Phylogenetic Perspective ◽  
Species Area Relationship ◽  
The Individual
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