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Univ Arizona, Sch Nat Resources & EnvironmIssue Date
2017-01-31Keywords
climatecommunities
desert annuals
migratory waterfowl
periodicity
seasons
stream invertebrates
temporal beta diversity
turnover
wavelets
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Tonkin, J. D., Bogan, M. T., Bonada, N., Rios‐Touma, B., & Lytle, D. A. (2017). Seasonality and predictability shape temporal species diversity. Ecology, 98(5), 1201-1216.Journal
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This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
Temporal environmental fluctuations, such as seasonality, exert strong controls on biodiversity. While the effects of seasonality are well known, the predictability of fluctuations across years may influence seasonality in ways that are less well understood. The ability of a habitat to support unique, non‐nested assemblages of species at different times of the year should depend on both seasonality (occurrence of events at specific periods of the year) and predictability (the reliability of event recurrence) of characteristic ecological conditions. Drawing on tools from wavelet analysis and information theory, we developed a framework for quantifying both seasonality and predictability of habitats, and applied this using global long‐term rainfall data. Our analysis predicted that temporal beta diversity should be maximized in highly predictable and highly seasonal climates, and that low degrees of seasonality, predictability, or both would lower diversity in characteristic ways. Using stream invertebrate communities as a case study, we demonstrated that temporal species diversity, as exhibited by community turnover, was determined by a balance between temporal environmental variability (seasonality) and the reliability of this variability (predictability). Communities in highly seasonal mediterranean environments exhibited strong oscillations in community structure, with turnover from one unique community type to another across seasons, whereas communities in aseasonal New Zealand environments fluctuated randomly. Understanding the influence of seasonal and other temporal scales of environmental oscillations on diversity is not complete without a clear understanding of their predictability, and our framework provides tools for examining these trends at a variety of temporal scales, seasonal and beyond. Given the uncertainty of future climates, seasonality and predictability are critical considerations for both basic science and management of ecosystems (e.g., dam operations, bioassessment) spanning gradients of climatic variability.ISSN
0012-9658PubMed ID
28144975DOI
10.1002/ecy.1761Version
Final published versionSponsors
U.S. Department of Defense SERDP grant [RC-2511]ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/ecy.1761
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