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Measuring temporal turnover in ecological communities
journal contribution
posted on 2016-05-10, 13:06 authored by Hideyasu Shimadzu, Maria Dornelas, Anne E. MagurranRange migrations in response to climate change, invasive species and the emergence of novel ecosystems highlight the importance of temporal turnover in community composition as a fundamental part of global change in the Anthropocene. Temporal turnover is usually quantified using a variety of metrics initially developed to capture spatial change. However, temporal turnover is the consequence of unidirectional community dynamics resulting from processes such as population growth, colonisation and local extinction. Here, we develop a framework based on community dynamics and propose a new temporal turnover measure. A simulation study and an analysis of an estuarine fish community both clearly demonstrate that our proposed turnover measure offers additional insights relative to spatial context-based metrics. Our approach reveals whether community turnover is due to shifts in community composition or in community abundance and identifies the species and/or environmental factors that are responsible for any change.
Funding
We acknowledge support from the European Research Council (project BioTIME 250189) and the Royal Society. MD acknowledges funding from the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology Scotland (MASTS). MASTS is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Mathematical Sciences
Published in
Methods in Ecology and EvolutionVolume
6Issue
12Pages
1384 - 1394Citation
SHIMADZU, H., DORNELAS, M. and MAGURRAN, A.E., 2015. Measuring temporal turnover in ecological communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6 (12), pp. 1384 - 1394.Publisher
Wiley / Article © The Authors. Journal © British Ecological SocietyVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2015-06-10Publication date
2015-07-22Notes
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: SHIMADZU, H., DORNELAS, M. and MAGURRAN, A.E., 2015. Measuring temporal turnover in ecological communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6 (12), pp. 1384 - 1394., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12438. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.ISSN
2041-210XeISSN
2041-210XPublisher version
Language
- en