Socolar, JB, Gilroy, JJ, Kunin, WE et al. (1 more author) (2016) How Should Beta-Diversity Inform Biodiversity Conservation? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 31 (1). pp. 67-80. ISSN 0169-5347
Abstract
To design robust protected area networks, accurately measure species losses, or understand the processes that maintain species diversity, conservation science must consider the organization of biodiversity in space. Central is beta-diversity—the component of regional diversity that accumulates from compositional differences between local species assemblages. We review how beta-diversity is impacted by human activities, including farming, selective-logging, urbanisation, species invasions, overhunting, and climate change. Beta-diversity increases, decreases or remains unchanged by these impacts, depending on the balance of processes that cause species composition to become more different (biotic heterogenization) or more similar (biotic homogenization) between sites. While maintaining high beta-diversity is not always a desirable conservation outcome, understanding beta-diversity is essential for protecting regional diversity and can directly assist conservation planning.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016, Elsevier. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | biodiversity conservation; biotic homogenization; alpha-diversity; beta-diversity; gamma-diversity; diversity partitioning; pairwise dissimilarities; species-area relationships; spatial scaling |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Biology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Aug 2016 11:09 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jan 2017 23:01 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.11.005 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.tree.2015.11.005 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:103035 |