Oil road effects on the anuran community of a high canopy tank bromeliad (Aechmea zebrina) in the upper Amazon Basin, Ecuador

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  McCracken, Shawn F ^a,b   Forstner, Michael R J ^a  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b TADPOLE Organization   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AECHMEA ZEBRINA; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ANURA; ARTICLE; BROMELIA; CANOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORESTATION; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; OIL ROAD; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RAIN FOREST; RIVER BASIN; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; ANURA; BIODIVERSITY; BROMELIACEAE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84896919568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085470     Document Type: Article

References (88)

1. Basset Y, Novotny V, Miller SE, Kitching RL (2003) Conclusion: arthropods, canopies and interpretable patterns. In: Basset Y, Novotny V, Miller SE, Kitching RL, editors. Arthropods of tropical forests: spatio-temporal dynamics and resource use in the canopy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 394-406.
2. Lowman MD, Schowalter TD (2012) Plant science in forest canopies - the first 30 years of advances and challenges (1980-2010). New Phytol. 194: 12-27.
3. Moran VC, Southwood TRE (1982) The guild composition of arthropod communities in trees. J. Anim. Ecol. 51: 289-306.
4. Wardhaugh CW, Stork NE, Edwards W (2013) Specialization of rainforest canopy beetles to host trees and microhabitats: not all specialists are leaf-feeding herbivores. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 109: 215-228.
5. Armbruster P, Hutchinson RA, Cotgreave P (2002) Factors influencing community structure in a South American tank bromeliad fauna. OIKOS 96: 225-234. (Pubitemid 34543906)
6. Kitching RL (2000) Food webs and container habitats: the natural history and ecology of phytotelmata. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 448 p.
7. McCracken SF, Forstner MRJ (2006) Reproductive ecology and behavior of Eleutherodactylus aureolineatus (Anura, Brachycephalidae) in the canopy of the Upper Amazon Basin, Ecuador. Phyllomedusa 5: 135-143. (Pubitemid 46152860)
8. Nadkarni NM (1994) Diversity of species and interactions in the upper tree canopy of forest ecosystems. Am. Zool. 34: 70-78.
9. Terborgh JW (1986) Conservation biology: the science of scarcity and diversity. Sunderland: Sinauer Associaties Incorporated. 584 p.
10. Basset Y, Novotny V, Miller SE, Kitching RL (2003) Canopy entomology, an expanding field of natural science. In: Basset Y, Novotny V, Miller SE, Kitching RL, editors. Arthropods of tropical forests: spatio-temporal dynamics and resource use in the canopy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 4-6.
11. Basset Y, Novotny V, Miller SE, Kitching RL (2003) Methodological advances and limitations in canopy entomology. In: Basset Y, Novotny V, Miller SE, Kitching RL, editors. Arthropods of tropical forests: spatio-temporal dynamics and resource use in the canopy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 7-16.
12. De Vries PJ, Murray D, Lande R (1997) Species diversity in vertical, horizontal, and temporal dimensions of a fruit-feeding butterfly community in an Ecuadorian rainforest. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 62: 343-364. (Pubitemid 28037964)
13. Schiesari L, Gordo M, Hödl W (2003) Treeholes as calling, breeding, and developmental sites for the Amazonian canopy frog, Phrynohyas resinifictrix (Hylidae). Copeia 2003: 263-272. (Pubitemid 36784923)
14. Guayasamin JM, Ron S, Cisneros-Heredia DF, Lamar W, McCracken SF (2006) A new species of frog of the Eleutherodactylus lacrimosus assemblage (Leptodactylidae) from the western Amazon Basin, with comments on the utility of canopy surveys in lowlands rainforest. Herpetologica 62: 191-202. (Pubitemid 44966743)
15. McCracken SF, Gaertner JP, Forstner MRJ, Hahn D (2009) Detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in amphibians from the forest floor to the upper canopy of an Ecuadorian Amazon lowland rainforest. Herpetol. Rev. 40: 190-195.
16. Stuart SN, Chanson JS, Cox NA, Young BE, Rodrigues ASL, et al. (2004) Status and trends of amphibian declines and extinctions worldwide. Science 306: 1783-1786. (Pubitemid 39601397)
17. FAO (2010) Global forest resources assessment 2010: main report. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. 376 p.
18. CIA (2007) The world fact book 2007. Washington: Central Intelligence Agency. 3392 p.
19. Finer M, Jenkins CN, Pimm SL, Keane B, Ross C (2008) Oil and gas projects in the western Amazon: threats to wilderness, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples. PLoS ONE 3: 1-9.
20. Finer M, Vijay V, Ponce F, Jenkins CN, Kahn TR (2009) Ecuador's Yasuni Biosphere Reserve: a brief modern history and conservation challenges. Environ. Res. Lett. 4: 1-15.
21. Laurance WF, Goosem M, Laurance SGW (2009) Impacts of roads and linear clearings on tropical forests. Trends Ecol. Evol. 24: 659-669.
22. Goosem M (1997) Internal fragmentation: the effects of roads, highways, and powerline clearings on movements and mortality of rainforest vertebrates. In: Laurance WF, Bierregaard RO, editors. Tropical forest remnants, ecology, management, and conservation of fragmented communities. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. pp. 241-255.
23. O'Rourke D, Connolly S (2003) Just oil? The distribution of environmental and social impacts of oil production and consumption. Annu. Rev. Env. Resour. 28: 587-617.
24. Barbieri AF, Carr DL, Bilsborrow RE (2009) Migration within the Frontier: the second generation colonization in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Popul. Res. Policy Rev. 28: 291-320.
25. Carr D (2009) Population and deforestation: why rural migration matters. Prog. Hum. Geog. 33: 355-378.
26. Ozanne CMP, Anhuf D, Boulter SL, Keller M, Kitching RL, et al. (2003) Biodiversity meets the atmosphere: a global view of forest canopies. Science 301: 183-186. (Pubitemid 36858463)
27. Krebs CJ (2008) The ecological world view. Berkeley: University of California Press. 592 p.
28. Godfray HCJ, Lewis OT, Memmott J (1999) Studying insect diversity in the tropics. Philos. T. Roy. Soc. B. 354: 1811-1824.
29. Basset Y, Mavoungou JF, Mikissa JB, Missa O, Miller SE, et al. (2004) Discriminatory power of different arthropod data sets for the biological monitoring of anthropogenic disturbance in tropical forests. Biodivers. Conserv. 13: 709-732. (Pubitemid 38178665)
30. Heinen JT (1992) Comparisons of the leaf litter herpetofauna in abandoned cacao plantations and primary rain forest in Costa Rica: some implications for faunal restoration. Biotropica 24: 431-439.
31. Develey PF, Stouffer PC (2001) Effects of roads on movements by understory birds in mixed-species flocks in central Amazonian Brazil. Conserv. Biol. 15: 1416-1422. (Pubitemid 32965127)
32. Goosem M (2002) Effects of tropical rainforest roads on small mammals: fragmentation, edge effects and traffic disturbance. Wildl. Res. 29: 277-289.
33. Ernst R, Rödel MO (2006) Community assembly and structure of tropical leaf-litter anurans. Ecotropica 12: 113-129.
34. Purvis A, Hector A (2000) Getting the measure of biodiversity. Nature 405: 212-219. (Pubitemid 30313544)
35. Southwood TRE (1987) The concept and nature of the community. In: Gee JHR, Giller PS, editors. Organization of communities past and present. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific. pp. 3-27.
36. Bass M, Finer M, Jenkins CN, Kreft H, Cisneros-Heredia DF, et al. (2010) Global conservation significance of Ecuador's Yasuni National Park. PLoS ONE 5: 1-22.
37. Olson DM, Dinerstein E (2002) The global 200: priority ecoregions for global conservation. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 89: 199-224. (Pubitemid 34792132)
38. Balslev H, Luteyn J, Øllegaard B, Holm-Nielsen LB (1987) Composition and structure of adjacent unflooded and floodplain forest in Amazonian Ecuador. Opera Bot. 92: 37-57.
39. Blandin LC (1976) El clima y sus características en el Ecuador. Quito: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia. 83 p.
40. Duellman WE (1978) The biology of an equatorial herpetofauna in Amazonian Ecuador. Misc. Pub. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas 65: 1-352.
41. Wunder S (2003) Oil Wealth and the Fate of the Forest. New York: Routledge. 456 p.
42. Canaday C, Rivadeneyra J (2001) Initial effects of a petroleum operation on Amazonian birds: terrestrial insectivores retreat. Biodivers. Conserv. 10: 567-595. (Pubitemid 32437274)
43. Gao Z (1998) Environmental regulation of oil and gas. London: Kluwer Law International. 615 p.
44. Franzen M (2006) Evaluating the sustainability of hunting: a comparison of harvest profiles across three Huaorani communities. Environ. Conserv. 33: 36-45.
45. McCracken SF, Forstner MRJ (2008) Bromeliad patch sampling technique for canopy herpetofauna in Neotropical forests. Herpetol. Rev. 39: 170-174.
46. Pitman NC, Terborgh JW, Silman MR, Núñez V P, Neill DA, et al. (2002) A comparison of tree species diversity in two upper Amazonian forests. Ecology 83: 3210-3224. (Pubitemid 36524694)
47. Perry D (1978) A method of access into the crowns of emergent trees. Biotropica 10: 155-157.
48. Bolker BM, Brooks ME, Clark CJ, Geange SW, Poulsen JR, et al. (2009) Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution. Trends Ecol. Evol. 24: 127-135.
49. Zuur AF, Leno EN, Elphick CS (2010) A protocol for data exploration to avoid common statistical problems. Method. Ecol. Evol. 1: 3-14.
50. Pinheiro JC, Bates DM (2002) Mixed-effects models in S and S-Plus. New York: Springer-Velag. 548 p.
51. Skaug H, Fournier D, Nielsen A, Magnusson A, Bolker B (2011) glmmADMB: generalized linear mixed models using AD Model Builder. R package version 0.7.
52. Lindén A, Mäntyniemi S (2011) Using the negative binomial distribution to model overdispersion in ecological count data. Ecology 92: 1414-1421.
53. Srivastava DS, Kolasa J, Bengtsson J, Gonzalez A, Lawler SP, et al. (2004) Are natural microcosms useful model systems for ecology? Trends. Ecol. Evol. 19: 379-384. (Pubitemid 38800924)
54. Richardson BA (1999) The bromeliad microcosm and the assessment of faunal diversity in a neotropical forest. Biotropica 31: 321-336.
55. Kitching RL (2001) Foodwebs in phytotelmata: "bottom up" and "top down" explanations for community structure. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 46: 729-760.
56. Jabiol J, Corbara B, Dejean A, Céréghino R (2009) Structure of aquatic insect communities in tank-bromeliads in a East-Amazonian rainforest in French Guiana. Forest Ecol. Manag. 257: 351-360.
57. Burnham KP, Anderson DR (2002) Model Selection and multimodel Inference: a practical information-theoretic approach. New York: Springer-Verlag. 488 p.
58. R Development Core Team (2013) R: A language and environment for statistical computing. Vienna, Austria: R Foundation for Statistical Computing.
59. Bell KE, Donnelly MA (2006) Influence of forest fragmentation on community structure of frogs and lizards in northeastern Costa Rica. Conserv. Biol. 20: 1750-1760. (Pubitemid 44912630)
60. Pearman PB (1997) Correlates of amphibian diversity in an altered landscape of Amazonian Ecuador. Conserv. Biol. 11: 1211-1225.
61. Schlaepfer MA, Gavin TA (2001) Edge effects on lizards and frogs in tropical forest fragments. Conserv. Biol. 15: 1079-1090. (Pubitemid 32706847)
62. Urbina-Cardona JN, Olivares-Pérez M, Reynoso VH (2006) Herpetofauna diversity and microenvironment correlates across a pasture-edge-interior ecotone in tropical rainforest fragments in the Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve of Veracruz, Mexico. Biol. Conserv. 132: 61-75. (Pubitemid 43927601)
63. Semlitsch RD, Ryan TJ, Hamed K, Chatfield M, Drehman B, et al. (2007) Salamander abundance along road edges and within abandoned logging roads in Appalachian forests. Conserv. Biol. 21: 159-167.
64. Ernst R, Rödel M-O (2008) Patterns of community composition in two tropical tree frog assemblages: separating spatial structure and environmental effects in disturbed and undisturbed forests. J. Trop. Ecol. 24: 111-120. (Pubitemid 351682563)
65. Ernst R, Rödel M-O (2005) Anthropogenically induced changes of predictability in tropical anuran assemblages. Ecology 86: 3111-3118. (Pubitemid 41677462)
66. Menin M, Lima AP, Magnusson WE, Waldez F (2007) Topographic and edaphic effects on the distribution of terrestrially reproducing anurans in Central Amazonia: mesoscale spatial patterns. J. Trop. Ecol. 23: 539-547. (Pubitemid 47580841)
67. Parris KM (2004) Environmental and spatial variables influence the composition of frog assemblages in sub-tropical eastern Australia. Ecography 27: 392-400.
68. Keller A, Rödel M-O, Linsenmair KE, Grafe TU (2005) The importance of enviromental heterogeneity for species diversity and assemblage structure in Bornean stream frogs. J. Anim. Ecol. 78: 305-314.
69. Sierra, R., 2000. Dynamics and patterns of deforestation in the Western Amazon: The Napo deforestation front, 1986-1996. Appl. Geogr. 20: 1-16. (Pubitemid 30130634)
70. Pohlman CL, Turton SM, Goosem M (2009) Temporal variation in microclimatic edge effects near powerlines, highways and streams in Australian tropical rainforest. Agricult. Forest Meterol. 149: 84-95.
71. Laurance WF and Goosem M (2008) Impacts of habitat fragmentation and linear clearings on Australian rainforest biota. In: Stork N, Turton S, editors. Living in a dynamic tropical forest landscape. Malden: Blackwell. pp. 295-306.
72. Laurance WF, Lovejoy TE, Vasconcelos HL, Bruna EM, Didham RK, et al. (2002) Ecosystem decay of Amazonian forest fragments: a 22-year investigation. Conserv Biol 16: 605-618. (Pubitemid 34592915)
73. von Arx G, Dobbertin M, Rebetez M (2012) Spatio-temporal effects of the forest canopy on understory microclimate in a long-term experiment in Switzerland. Agricult. Forest Meterol. 166-167: 144-155.
74. Freiberg M (2001) The influence of epiphyte cover on branch temperature in a tropical tree. Plant Ecol. 153: 241-250.
75. Moffett MW (1994) The high frontier: exploring the tropical rainforest canopy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 192 p.
76. Benzing DH (2000) Bromeliaceae: profile of an adaptive radiation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 710 p.
77. Benzing DH (1998) Vulnerabilities of tropical forests to climate change: the significance of resident epiphytes. Clim. Chang. 39: 519-540.
78. Hietz P (1998) Diversity and conservation of epiphytes in a changing environment. Pure Appl. Chem. 70: 1-11.
79. Brighigna L, Papini A, Mosti S, Cornia A, Bocchini P, et al. (2002) The use of tropical bromeliads (Tillandsia spp.) for monitoring atmospheric pollution in the town of Florence, Italy. Rev. Biol. Trop. 50: 577-584. (Pubitemid 135702289)
80. Stuntz S, Simon U, Zotz G (2002) Rainforest air-conditioning: the moderating influence of epiphytes on the microclimate in tropical tree crowns. Int. J. Biometeorol. 46: 53-59. (Pubitemid 135701245)
81. Foley JA, Costa MH, Delire C, Ramankutty N, Snyder P (2003) Green surprise? How terrestrial ecosystems could affect earth's climate. Front. Ecol. Environ. 1: 38-44.
82. Buchanan BW (2006) Observed and potential effects of artificial lighting on anuran amphibians. In: Rich C, Longcore T, editors. Ecological consequences of artificial night light. Washington: Island Press. Pp. 192-220.
83. Suárez E, Morales M, Cueva R, Utreras Bucheli V, Zapata-Ríos G, et al. (2009) Oil industry, wild meat trade and roads: indirect effects of oil extraction activities in a protected area in north-eastern Ecuador. Anim. Conserv. 12: 364-373.
84. Andrews KM, Gibbons JW, Jochimsen DM, Mitchell J (2008) Ecological effects of roads on amphibians and reptiles: a literature review. Herpetol. Cons. 3: 121-143.
85. Dew J, Greenberg J, Franzen M, Di Fiore A (2003) Road to extinction: GIS modeling of road development and hunting pressure on Amazonian primates. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 36: 89.
86. Laurance SG (2004) Responses of understory rain forest birds to road edges in central Amazonia. Ecol. Appl. 14: 1344-1357.
87. Barthlott W, Schmit-Neuerburg V, Nieder J, Engwald S (2001) Diversity and abundance of vascular epiphytes: a comparison of secondary vegetation and primary montane rain forest in the Venezuelan Andes. Plant Ecol. 152: 145-156. (Pubitemid 32515932)
88. Finer M, Jenkins CN, Powers B (2013) Potential of Best Practice to Reduce Impacts from Oil and Gas Projects in the Amazon. PLoS ONE 8: 1-14.