A global analysis of avian island diversity-area relationships in the Anthropocene

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  • Thomas J. Matthews
  • Joseph P. Wayman
  • Robert J. Whittaker
  • Pedro Cardoso
  • Julian P. Hume
  • Ferran Sayol
  • Konstantinos Proios
  • Thomas E. Martin
  • Benjamin Baiser
  • Paulo A. V. Borges
  • Yasuhiro Kubota
  • Luiz dos Anjos
  • Joseph A. Tobias
  • Filipa C. Soares
  • Xingfeng Si
  • Ping Ding
  • Chase D. Mendenhall
  • Yong Chee Keita Sin
  • Frank E. Rheindt
  • Kostas A. Triantis
  • And 6 others
  • Francois Guilhaumon
  • David M. Watson
  • Lluis Brotons
  • Corrado Battisti
  • Osanna Chu
  • Francois Rigal

Research on island species-area relationships (ISAR) has expanded to incorporate functional (IFDAR) and phylogenetic (IPDAR) diversity. However, relative to the ISAR, we know little about IFDARs and IPDARs, and lack synthetic global analyses of variation in form of these three categories of island diversity-area relationship (IDAR). Here, we undertake the first comparative evaluation of IDARs at the global scale using 51 avian archipelagic data sets representing true and habitat islands. Using null models, we explore how richness-corrected functional and phylogenetic diversity scale with island area. We also provide the largest global assessment of the impacts of species introductions and extinctions on the IDAR. Results show that increasing richness with area is the primary driver of the (non-richness corrected) IPDAR and IFDAR for many data sets. However, for several archipelagos, richness-corrected functional and phylogenetic diversity changes linearly with island area, suggesting that the dominant community assembly processes shift along the island area gradient. We also find that archipelagos with the steepest ISARs exhibit the biggest differences in slope between IDARs, indicating increased functional and phylogenetic redundancy on larger islands in these archipelagos. In several cases introduced species seem to have 're-calibrated' the IDARs such that they resemble the historic period prior to recent extinctions.

Original languageEnglish
JournalEcology Letters
Volume26
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)965-982
Number of pages18
ISSN1461-023X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023

    Research areas

  • birds, community assembly, diversity-area relationship, functional diversity, habitat fragments, islands, phylogenetic diversity, species-area relationship, PHYLOGENETIC DIVERSITY, FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY, SPECIES RICHNESS, PATTERNS, BIOGEOGRAPHY, TRAIT, BIRDS, EXTINCTIONS, ALPHA, TOOLS

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