Mechanisms determining the multi-diversity of carrion visiting species along a gradient of carrion body mass.
Bavarian Forest National Park
Experimental carrion ecology
Necromass
Journal
Oecologia
ISSN: 1432-1939
Titre abrégé: Oecologia
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 0150372
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 Sep 2024
09 Sep 2024
Historique:
received:
26
03
2024
accepted:
21
08
2024
medline:
10
9
2024
pubmed:
10
9
2024
entrez:
9
9
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Resource availability and habitat heterogeneity are essential drivers of biodiversity, but their individual roles often remain unclear since both factors are often correlated. Here, we tested the more-individuals hypothesis (MIH) and the habitat-heterogeneity hypothesis (HHH) for bacteria, fungi, dipterans, coleopterans, birds, and mammals on 100 experimentally exposed carcasses ranging by three orders of magnitude in body mass. At the level of each carcass we found marginal or significant support for the MIH for bacteria, fungi, and beetles in spring and significant support for fungi, dipterans, and mammals in summer. The HHH was supported only for bacteria in spring, while it was supported for all groups except mammals in summer. Overall multidiversity always increased with body mass, with a steeper increase in summer. Abundance based rarefaction-extrapolation curves for three classes of body mass showed the highest species richness for medium-sized carcasses, particular for dipterans and microbes, supporting the HHH also among carcasses. These findings complement existing necromass studies of deadwood, showing there are more niches associated with larger resource amounts and an increasing habitat heterogeneity between carcasses most pronounced for medium-sized species. Higher resource amount led to increased diversity of carrion-consuming organisms in summer, particularly due to the increasing number of niches with increasing size. Our findings underline the importance of distributed large carrion as well as medium-sized carrion in ecosystems supporting overall biodiversity of carrion-consumers. Furthermore, the different responses in spring and summer may inform strategies of carrion enrichment management schemes throughout the year.
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pubmed: 39251421
doi: 10.1007/s00442-024-05611-1
pii: 10.1007/s00442-024-05611-1
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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