10.6084/m9.figshare.5008382.v1
Rachakonda Sreekar
Rachakonda
Sreekar
Richard Corlett
Richard
Corlett
Salindra Dayananda
Salindra
Dayananda
Uromi Manage Goodale
Uromi Manage
Goodale
Adam Kilpatrick
Adam
Kilpatrick
Sarath W. Kotagama
Sarath W.
Kotagama
Lian Pin Koh
Lian
Pin Koh
Eben Goodale
Eben
Goodale
Supplementary Material from Horizontal and vertical species turnover in tropical birds in habitats with differing land use
The Royal Society
2017
beta diversity
climate change
community assembly
deforestation
distance decay
2017-05-16 09:10:50
Journal contribution
https://rs.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Supplementary_Material_from_Horizontal_and_vertical_species_turnover_in_tropical_birds_in_habitats_with_differing_land_use/5008382
Large tracts of tropical rainforests are being converted into intensive agricultural lands. Such anthropogenic disturbances are known to reduce species turnover across horizontal distances. But it is not known if they can also reduce species turnover across vertical distances (elevation), which have steeper climatic differences. We measured turnover in birds across horizontal and vertical sampling transects in three land-use types of Sri Lanka: protected forest, reserve buffer and intensive-agriculture, from 90 to 2100 m a.s.l. Bird turnover rates across horizontal distances were similar across all habitats, and much less than vertical turnover rates. Vertical turnover rates were not similar across habitats. Forest had higher turnover rates than the other two habitats for all bird species. Buffer and intensive-agriculture had similar turnover rates, even though buffer habitats were situated at the forest edge. Therefore, our results demonstrate the crucial importance of conserving primary forest across the full elevational range available.