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Is response to fire influenced by dietary specialization and mobility ? A comparative study with multiple animal assemblages
Santos, Xavier (Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos)
Mateos Frías, Eduardo (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal)
Bros, Vicenç (Parc Natural de Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac)
Brotons, Lluís (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Mas, Eva de (Estacion Experimental de Zonas Áridas)
Herraiz Cabello, Juan Alejo (Asociación Ibérica de Mimercología)
Herrando, Sergi (Institut Català d'Ornitologia)
Miño, Àngel (Parc Natural de Sant Llorenç del Munt i l'Obac)
Olmo Vidal, Josep Maria (Catalunya. Servei de Biodiversitat i Protecció dels Animals)
Quesada, Javier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal, de Biologia Vegetal i d'Ecologia)
Ribes, Jordi (Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona)
Sabaté i Jorba, Santi (Centre de Recerca Ecològica i d'Aplicacions Forestals)
Sauras-Yera, Teresa (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Vegetal)
Serra, Antoni (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Animal)
Vallejo Calzada, Victoriano Ramón (Universitat de Barcelona. Departament de Biologia Vegetal)
Viñolas, Amador (Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona)

Data: 2014
Resum: Fire is a major agent involved in landscape transformation and an indirect cause of changes in species composition. Responses to fire may vary greatly depending on life histories and functional traits of species. We have examined the taxonomic and functional responses to fire of eight taxonomic animal groups displaying a gradient of dietary and mobility patterns: Gastropoda, Heteroptera, Formicidae, Coleoptera, Araneae, Orthoptera, Reptilia and Aves. The fieldwork was conducted in a Mediterranean protected area on 3 sites (one unburnt and two burnt with different postfire management practices) with five replicates per site. We collected information from 4606 specimens from 274 animal species. Similarity in species composition and abundance between areas was measured by the Bray-Curtis index and ANOSIM, and comparisons between animal and plant responses by Mantel tests. We analyze whether groups with the highest percentage of omnivorous species, these species being more generalist in their dietary habits, show weak responses to fire (i. e. more similarity between burnt and unburnt areas), and independent responses to changes in vegetation. We also explore how mobility, i. e. dispersal ability, influences responses to fire. Our results demonstrate that differences in species composition and abundance between burnt and unburnt areas differed among groups. We found a tendency towards presenting lower differences between areas for groups with higher percentages of omnivorous species. Moreover, taxa with a higher percentage of omnivorous species had significantly more independent responses of changes in vegetation. High- (e. g. Aves) and low-mobility (e. g. Gastropoda) groups had the strongest responses to fire (higher R scores of the ANOSIM); however, we failed to find a significant general pattern with all the groups according to their mobility. Our results partially support the idea that functional traits underlie the response of organisms to environmental changes caused by fire.
Ajuts: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia CGL2011-29539
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia CSD2008-00040
Drets: Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. Creative Commons
Llengua: Anglès
Document: Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria: Fire ; Species ; Dietary habits ; Mobility
Publicat a: PloS one, Vol. 9, Issue 2 (February 2014) , p. e88224, ISSN 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088224
PMID: 24516616


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