Chapter 19: Species Diversity in Communities Flashcards

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Zoonotic Diseases

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hosted by wildlife and are infectious to humans

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Factors that affect emergence of zoonotic diseases

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climate change, species invasions, pollution, and land use conversion

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How does species diversity affect the emergence and transmission of zoonotic diseases?

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declining species diversity facilitates emergence and transmission

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Landscapes

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made up of a patchwork of communities of different types

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What does membership in a community depend on?

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-regional species pools and dispersal ability
-environmental conditions
-species interactions

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Regional Species Pool

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provides an upper limit on the number and types of species that can be present in a community

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Dispersal

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supplies species to communities. The importance of dispersal can be seen in cases of non-native species invasions

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How have humans expanded regional species pools?

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by serving as vectors of dispersal

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How do environmental conditions affect community membership?

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a species may be able to get to a community but be unable to tolerate the environmental or abiotic conditions

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How do species interactions affect community membership?

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-coexistence with other species is also required for community membership
-other species may be required for growth, reproduction, or survival
-species may be excluded by competition, predation, parasitism, or disease

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Biotic Resistance

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occurs when interactions with the native species exclude the invader
-not a lot is known about biotic resistance

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Climate change may facilitate species invasion by

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  1. Altering pathways of transport and introduction
  2. Alteration of environmental constraints
  3. Alteration of the distributions of existing invasive species
  4. Impacts of non-native species may be altered
  5. Effects of management of non-native species
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Resource partitioning

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competing species are more likely to coexist if they use resources in different ways

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Resource Spectrum

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-each type of resource varies among a resource spectrum
-the resource use of each species falls somewhere along this spectrum and overlaps with the resource uses of other species to varying degrees

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Read Slides 35-36

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MacArthur (1958)

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studied resource partitioning in a community of warblers in New England forests
-birds used different parts of the habitat different ways

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MacArthur and MacArthur (1961)

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looked at bird communities in 13 different habitats
-species diversity increased with foliage height diversity
-tree species identity was less important than structural complexity

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Resource Ratio Hypothesis

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species coexist by using resources in different proportions

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Robertson et al. (1988)

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mapped soil moisture and nitrogen concentration and found variation over small spatial scales
-this suggested resource partitioning In plants

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What can modify species interactions and allow for species coexistence?

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disturbance, stress, and predation

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If the dominant competitor is prevented from reaching carrying capacity…

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competitive exclusion cannot occur and coexistence will be maintained

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Who was the first to consider disturbance as a mechanism to maintain species diversity?

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How did Darwin discover disturbance as a mechanism to maintain species diversity?

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-in a meadow that he stopped mowing, he observes that the species number went from 20 down to 11
-without disturbance, the dominant species was able to exclude several others

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Slides 49-51

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Paine (1966)
studied competitive exclusion in the rocky intertidal zone -When Pisaster was present, diversity was higher. Without it Mytilus outcompeted everything else
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Intermediate disturbance hypothesis
-species diversity will be greatest at intermediate levels of disturbance -at low levels of disturbance, competition regulates diversity. At high disturbance levels, many species cannot survive
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Sousa (How does disturbance affect amount of species?)
studied communities on intertidal boulders that were overturned by waves -small boulders (most overturned) had one species due to frequent disturbance -most large boulders had two species (rare disturbance) -intermediate sized boulders had four to seven species
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Competitive Displacement
the best competition uses the limiting resources, reducing the weaker competitor's population growth to the point of extinction
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Dynamic Equilibrium Model
combines disturbance frequency and rate of competitive displacement to predict max species diversity at low, intermediate or equal levels
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Slides 61-64
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Menge and Sutherland Model (1987)
predation is a biological interaction and should be considered separately from disturbance -predation is most important in low environmental stress -as stress increases, predation importance decreases, and importance of competition increases -at high stress levels, neither are important
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Recruitment
influx of young individuals to a population -if low, competition may not be important because resources are not limited
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What do lottery models and neutral models emphasize?
the role of chance in maintaining species diversity -all species have equal chances of obtaining resources made available by disturbances, and this allows coexistence -species must have similar interaction strength and growth rates and be able to respond quickly to disturbances
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Where is the lottery model most relevant?
very diverse communities where many species overlap in their resource requirements
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What controls community functions such as disease suppression, plant productivity, water quality, etc.
species diversity
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What valuable services do humans receive from community functions?
food and fuel production, water purification, oxygen and carbon monoxide exchange, flood protection
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Diversity-Stability Theory
species richness is positively related to community stability -tendancy of a community to remain the same in structure and function, or to return after a disturbance
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Complementary Hypothesis
as species richness increases, community function will increase linearly -each species has a unique and equally incremental effect
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Redundancy Hypothesis
Functional contribution of additional species reaches a threshold -as more species are added, there is overlap in their function, or redundancy among species
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Idiosyncratic hypothesis
strength of ecological function varies greatly -some species have a large effect, some have a minimal effect -addition of dominant species will have a large effect on community function, producing a cure with a idiosyncratic shape
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Case Study at end of powerpoint Slides 82-84