Impacts of environmental filters on functional redundancy in riparian vegetation

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 846-855

  Bruno, Daniel ^a   Gutiérrez Cánovas, Cayetano ^a,b   Sánchez Fernández, David ^c,d   Velasco, Josefa ^a   Nilsson, Christer ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

^e UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

drought; flow regulation; functional diversity; functional traits; global change; habitat filtering; land use; Mediterranean rivers; multiple stressors; plant functional groups

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GLOBAL CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; RIPARIAN VEGETATION; RIVER SYSTEM; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STREAM;

AGRICULTURE; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DROUGHT; FILTERS; MANAGEMENT; MEDITERRANEAN; STABILITY; STRESSES;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 84959278372     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12619     Document Type: Article

References (64)

1. Aguiar, F.C. & Ferreira, M.T. (2005) Human-disturbed landscapes: effects on composition and integrity of riparian woody vegetation in the Tagus River basin, Portugal. Environmental Conservation, 32, 30–41.
2. Aguiar, F.C., Ferreira, M.T., Albuquerque, A., Rodríguez-González, P. & Segurado, P. (2009) Structural and functional responses of riparian vegetation to human disturbance: performance and spatial scale-dependence. Fundamental and Applied Limnology, 175, 249–267.
3. Allan, J.D. (2004) Landscapes and riverscapes: the influence of land use on stream ecosystems. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 35, 257–284.
4. Allan, J.D. & Flecker, A.S. (1993) Biodiversity conservation in running waters. BioScience, 43, 32–43.
5. Bejarano, M.D., Marchamalo, M., García de Jalón, D. & González del Tánago, M. (2010) Flow regime patterns and their controlling factors in the Ebro basin (Spain). Journal of Hydrology, 385, 323–335.
6. Belmar, O., Velasco, J. & Martinez-Capel, F. (2011) Hydrological classification of natural flow regimes to support environmental flow assessments in intensively regulated Mediterranean rivers, Segura River basin (Spain). Environmental Management, 47, 992–1004.
7. Belmar, O., Bruno, D., Martínez-Capel, F., Barquín, J. & Velasco, J. (2013) Effects of flow regime alteration on fluvial habitats and riparian quality in a semiarid Mediterranean region. Ecological Indicators, 30, 52–64.
8. Benda, L., Miller, D., Andras, K., Bigelow, P., Reeves, G. & Michael, D. (2007) NetMap: a new tool in support of watershed science and resource management. Forest Science, 53, 220–238.
9. Biggs, R., Schlüter, M., Biggs, D., Bohensky, E.L., BurnSilver, S., Cundill, G. et al. (2012) Toward principles for enhancing the resilience of ecosystem services. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 37, 421–448.
10. Bruno, D., Belmar, O., Sánchez-Fernández, D. & Velasco, J. (2014a) Environmental determinants of woody and herbaceous riparian vegetation patterns in a semi-arid Mediterranean basin. Hydrobiologia, 730, 45–57.
11. Bruno, D., Belmar, O., Sánchez-Fernández, D., Guareschi, S., Millán, A. & Velasco, J. (2014b) Responses of Mediterranean aquatic and riparian communities to human pressures at different spatial scales. Ecological Indicators, 45, 456–464.
12. Cadotte, M.W., Carscadden, K. & Mirotchnick, N. (2011) Beyond species: functional diversity and the maintenance of ecological processes and services. Journal of Applied Ecology, 48, 1079–1087.
13. Cardinale, B.J., Duffy, J.E., Gonzalez, A., Hooper, D.U., Perrings, C., Venail, P. et al. (2012) Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity. Nature, 486, 59–67.
14. Catford, J.A., Morris, W.K., Vesk, P.A., Gippel, C.J. & Downes, B.J. (2014) Species and environmental characteristics point to flow regulation and drought as drivers of riparian plant invasion. Diversity and Distributions, 20, 1084–1096.
15. Clapcott, J.E., Young, R.G., Goodwin, E.O. & Leathwick, J.R. (2010) Exploring the response of functional indicators of stream health to land-use gradients. Freshwater Biology, 55, 2181–2199.
16. Cornelissen, J.H.C., Lavorel, S., Garnier, E., Díaz, S., Buchmann, N., Gurvich, D.E. et al. (2003) A handbook of protocols for standardised and easy measurement of plant functional traits worldwide. Australian Journal of Botany, 51, 335–380.
17. Cornwell, W.K. & Ackerly, D.D. (2009) Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California. Ecological Monographs, 79, 109–126.
18. Devictor, V., Mouillot, D., Meynard, C., Jiguet, F., Thuiller, W. & Mouquet, N. (2010) Spatial mismatch and congruence between taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity: the need for integrative conservation strategies in a changing world. Ecology Letters, 13, 1030–1040.
19. Díaz, A.M., Alonso, M.L.S. & Gutiérrez, M.R.V.-A. (2008) Biological traits of stream macroinvertebrates from a semi-arid catchment: patterns along complex environmental gradients. Freshwater Biology, 53, 1–21.
20. Díaz, S. & Cabido, M. (2001) Vive la difference: plant functional diversity matters to ecosystem processes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 16, 646–655.
21. Douma, J.C., Bardin, V., Bartholomeus, R.P. & Bodegom, P.M. (2012) Quantifying the functional responses of vegetation to drought and oxygen stress in temperate ecosystems. Functional Ecology, 26, 1355–1365.
22. Elmqvist, T., Folke, C., Nystrom, M., Peterson, G., Bengtsson, J., Walker, B. & Norberg, J. (2003) Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 1, 488–494.
23. Falcone, J.A., Carlisle, D.M. & Weber, L.C. (2010) Quantifying human disturbance in watersheds: variable selection and performance of a GIS-based disturbance index for predicting the biological condition of perennial streams. Ecological Indicators, 10, 264–273.
24. Ferreira, M.T. & Aguiar, F.C. (2006) Riparian and aquatic vegetation in Mediterranean-type streams (western Iberia). Limnetica, 25, 411–424.
25. Fonseca, C.R. & Ganade, G. (2001) Species functional redundancy, random extinctions and the stability of ecosystems. Journal of Ecology, 89, 118–125.
26. Guillemot, N., Kulbicki, M., Chabanet, P. & Vigliola, L. (2011) Functional redundancy patterns reveal non-random assembly rules in a species-rich marine assemblage. PLoS ONE, 6, e26735.
27. Gutiérrez-Cánovas, C., Sánchez-Fernández, D., Velasco, J., Millán, A. & Bonada, N. (2015) Similarity in the difference: changes in community functional features along natural and anthropogenic stress gradients. Ecology, 96, 2458–2466.
28. Hladyz, S., Åbjörnsson, K., Chauvet, E., Dobson, M., Elosegi, A., Ferreira, V. et al. (2011) Stream ecosystem functioning in an agricultural landscape: the importance of terrestrial-aquatic linkages. Advances in Ecological Research, 44, 211–276.
29. Hooper, D.U., Chapin, F.S.I.I.I., Ewel, J.J., Hector, A., Inchausti, P., Lavorel, S. et al. (2005) Effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning: a consensus of current knowledge. Ecological Monographs, 75, 3–35.
30. Huijbers, C.M., Schlacher, T.A., Schoeman, D.S., Olds, A.D., Weston, M.A. & Connolly, R.M. (2015) Limited functional redundancy in vertebrate scavenger guilds fails to compensate for the loss of raptors from urbanized sandy beaches. Diversity and Distributions, 21, 55–63.
31. Jansson, R., Nilsson, C. & Renöfält, B. (2000) Fragmentation of riparian floras in rivers with multiple dams. Ecology, 81, 899–903.
32. Kleyer, M. (1999) Distribution of plant functional types along gradients of disturbance intensity and resource supply in an agricultural landscape. Journal of Vegetation Science, 10, 697–708.
33. Kraft, N.J., Godoy, O. & Levine, J.M. (2015) Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 112, 797–802.
34. Laliberté, E. & Legendre, P. (2010) A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits. Ecology, 91, 299–305.
35. Laliberté, E., Wells, J.A., DeClerck, F., Metcalfe, D.J., Catterall, C.P., Queiroz, C. et al. (2010) Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities. Ecology Letters, 13, 76–86.
36. Lavorel, S. & Garnier, E. (2002) Predicting changes in community composition and ecosystem functioning from plant traits: revisiting the Holy Grail. Functional Ecology, 16, 545–556.
37. Lawton, J.H. & Brown, V.K. (1993) Redundancy in ecosystems. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function (eds E.-D. Schulze & H.A. Mooney), pp. 255–270. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
38. Maire, E., Grenouillet, G., Brosse, S. & Villéger, S. (2015) How many dimensions are needed to accurately assess functional diversity? A pragmatic approach for assessing the quality of functional spaces. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24, 728–740.
39. Mason, N.W.H., Mouillot, D., Lee, W.G. & Wilson, J.B. (2005) Functional richness, functional evenness and functional divergence: the primary components of functional diversity. Oikos, 111, 112–118.
40. Matsuzaki, S.S., Sasaki, T. & Akasaka, M. (2013) Consequences of the introduction of exotic and translocated species and future extirpations on the functional diversity of freshwater fish assemblages. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22, 1071–1082.
41. McGill, B.J., Enquist, B.J., Weiher, E. & Westoby, M. (2006) Rebuilding community ecology from functional traits. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 21, 178–185.
42. Ministry for the Environment (2004) Water in Spain. Secretaría de Estado de Aguas y Costas, Madrid.
43. Monteagudo, L., Moreno, J.L. & Picazo, F. (2012) River eutrophication: irrigated vs. non-irrigated agriculture through different spatial scales. Water Research, 46, 2759–2771.
44. Mori, A.S., Furukawa, T. & Sasaki, T. (2013) Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change. Biological Reviews, 88, 349–364.
45. Mouillot, D., Graham, N.A.J., Villéger, S., Mason, N.W.H. & Bellwood, D.R. (2013) A functional approach reveals community responses to disturbances. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 28, 167–177.
46. Naeem, S. & Wright, J.P. (2003) Disentangling biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: deriving solutions to a seemingly insurmountable problem. Ecology Letters, 6, 567–579.
47. Naiman, R.J., Décamps, H. & McClain, M.E. (2005) Riparia: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Stream Side Communities. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam.
48. Nilsson, C. & Berggren, K. (2000) Alterations of riparian ecosystems caused by river regulation. BioScience, 50, 783–792.
49. Nilsson, C. & Svedmark, M. (2002) Basic principles and ecological consequences of changing water regimes: riparian plant communities. Environmental Management, 30, 468–480.
50. Peñuelas, J., Lloret, F. & Montoya, R. (2001) Severe drought effects on Mediterranean woody flora in Spain. Forest Science, 47, 214–218.
51. Petchey, O.L., Evans, K.L., Fishburn, I.S. & Gaston, K.J. (2007) Low functional diversity and no redundancy in British avian assemblages. Journal of Animal Ecology, 76, 977–985.
52. Pillar, V.D., Blanco, C.C., Müller, S.C., Sosinski, E.E., Joner, F. & Duarte, L.D. (2013) Functional redundancy and stability in plant communities. Journal of Vegetation Science, 24, 963–974.
53. Quinn, L.D. & Holt, J.S. (2008) Ecological correlates of invasion by Arundo donax in three southern California riparian habitats. Biological Invasions, 10, 591–601.
54. R Development Core Team (2013) R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna.
55. Rosenfeld, J.S. (2002) Functional redundancy in ecology and conservation. Oikos, 98, 156–162.
56. Sabo, J.L. & Power, M.E. (2002) River-watershed exchange: effects of riverine subsidies on riparian lizards and their terrestrial prey. Ecology, 83, 1860–1869.
57. Salminen, J., van Gestel, C.A.M. & Oksanen, J. (2001) Pollution-induced community tolerance and functional redundancy in a decomposer food web in metal-stressed soil. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 20, 2287–2295.
58. Sasaki, T., Katabuchi, M., Kamiyama, C., Shimazaki, M., Nakashizuka, T. & Hikosaka, K. (2014) Vulnerability of moorland plant communities to environmental change: consequences of realistic species loss on functional diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology, 51, 299–308.
59. Sasaki, T., Furukawa, T., Iwasaki, Y., Seto, M. & Mori, A.S. (2015) Perspectives for ecosystem management based on ecosystem resilience and ecological thresholds against multiple and stochastic disturbances. Ecological Indicators, 57, 395–408.
60. Tabacchi, E., Lambs, L., Guilloy, H., Planty-Tabacchi, A.M., Muller, E. & Decamps, H. (2000) Impacts of riparian vegetation on hydrological processes. Hydrological Processes, 14, 2959–2976.
61. Villéger, S., Mason, N.W. & Mouillot, D. (2008) New multidimensional functional diversity indices for a multifaceted framework in functional ecology. Ecology, 89, 2290–2301.
62. Walker, B.H. (1992) Biodiversity and ecological redundancy. Conservation Biology, 6, 18–23.
63. Weiher, E., Freund, D., Bunton, T., Stefanski, A., Lee, T. & Bentivenga, S. (2011) Advances, challenges and a developing synthesis of ecological community assembly theory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 366, 2403–2413.
64. Woodward, G., Gessner, M.O., Giller, P.S., Gulis, V., Hladyz, S., Lecerf, A. et al. (2012) Continental-scale effects of nutrient pollution on stream ecosystem functioning. Science, 336, 1438–1440.