水生和陆生城市群体的体型变化
Thomas Merckx1, Caroline Souffreau2, Aurélien Kaiser3
1Behavioural Ecology and Conservation Group, Biodiversity Research Centre, Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. th.merckx@gmail.com.
Nature
|May 26, 2018
概括
城市环境通常会导致动物体型因热量而变小,但息地碎片化可能有利于更大,更流动的物种. 这突显了城市化对野生动物体积和分布的影响. 关键词:城市化,体型,息地碎片化,分散,城市热岛.
科学领域:
- 生态学
- 城市生态
- 社区生态
背景情况:
- 身体大小对新陈代谢率,生命史和生态相互作用至关重要.
- 城市化带来独特的环境压力,包括城市热岛效应和息地碎片化.
- 这些压力被假定会影响社区层面的体型分布.
研究的目的:
- 研究城市化对动物群体体大小的影响.
- 区分城市热岛和息地分裂对人体大小的影响.
- 探索物种分散能力对这些影响的作用.
主要方法:
- 在10个动物分类组中使用复制的空间嵌套采样设计.
- 分析城市化梯度的数据,考虑息地类型和温度变化.
- 检查了体型,散播能力和社区组成之间的关系.
主要成果:
- 城市社区通常表现出较小的物种体型.
- 城市变暖与四种类型中社区加权平均体型的减少有关.
- 然而,三种类型表现出向更大的体型的转变,与大小和分散之间的积极共变有关,减轻了息地碎片化的影响.
结论:
- 城市热岛和息地碎片化导致社区体型的不同变化.
- 通过在碎片化环境中选择更大,更灵活的物种,可以抵消体型变小的普遍趋势.
- 这些体型变化对城市生态系统结构,功能和网络动态有影响.
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