DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13837
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85028857685
论文题名: Wildlife species benefitting from a greener Arctic are most sensitive to shrub cover at leading range edges
作者: Wheeler H.C. ; Høye T.T. ; Svenning J.-C.
刊名: Global Change Biology
ISSN: 13541013
出版年: 2018
卷: 24, 期: 1 起始页码: 212
结束页码: 223
语种: 英语
英文关键词: birds
; climate change
; global warming
; habitat suitability
; herbivory
; mammals
; plant–animal interactions
; shrub encroachment
Scopus关键词: behavioral ecology
; bird
; canopy
; climate change
; geographical distribution
; global warming
; herbivory
; mammal
; population dynamics
; shrub
; Arctic
; Animalia
; Aves
; Mammalia
英文摘要: Widespread expansion of shrubs is occurring across the Arctic. Shrub expansion will substantially alter arctic wildlife habitats. Identifying which wildlife species are most affected by shrubification is central to predicting future arctic community composition. Through meta-analysis, we synthesized the published evidence for effects of canopy-forming shrubs on birds and mammals in the Arctic and Subarctic. We examined variation in species behaviour, distribution and population dynamics in birds and mammals in response to shrub cover (including shrub cover indicators such as shrub occurrence, extent, density and height). We also assessed the degree of heterogeneity in wildlife responses to shrub cover and synthesized the remaining literature that did not fit the criteria for our quantitative meta-analyses. Species from higher green vegetation biomass habitats (high Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, NDVI, across their distribution) were more likely to respond positively to shrub cover, demonstrating the potential for species to expand from boreal to arctic habitats under shrubification. Wildlife populations located in the lowest vegetation biomass (low NDVI) areas of their species’ range had the greatest proportion of positive responses to shrub cover, highlighting how increases in performance at leading edges of invaders distributions may be particularly rapid. This demonstrates the need to study species at these leading edges to accurately predict expansion potential. Arctic specialists were poorly represented across studies (limited to 5 bird and 0 mammal species), this knowledge gap potentially explains the few reported negative effects of shrub cover (3 of 29 species). Species responses to shrub cover showed substantial heterogeneity and varied among sites and years in all studies with sufficient replication to detect such variation. Our study highlights the importance of responses at species range edges in determining outcomes of shrubification for arctic birds and mammals and the need for greater examination of potential wildlife losers under shrubification. © 2017 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/110611
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作者单位: Department of Bioscience, Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark; Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway; Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UMR 5175, CNRS—Université de Montpellier—Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier—EPHE, Montpellier, France; Centre for Northern Studies, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, Canada; Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark; Department of Bioscience, Kalø, Aarhus University, Rønde, Denmark
Recommended Citation:
Wheeler H.C.,Høye T.T.,Svenning J.-C.. Wildlife species benefitting from a greener Arctic are most sensitive to shrub cover at leading range edges[J]. Global Change Biology,2018-01-01,24(1)