The role of environmental filtering, geographic distance and dispersal barriers in shaping the turnover of plant and animal species in Amazonia

• Autor(a) principal: Cristian de Sales Dambros
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Gabriela de Paula Souza Zuquim, Gabriel Massaine Moulatlet, Flávia Regina Capellotto Costa, Hanna Tuomisto, Camila Cherem Ribas, Renato Almeida de Azevedo, Fabricio Beggiato Baccaro, Paulo Estefano Dineli Bobrowiec, Murilo Sversut Dias, Thaise Emilio Lopes de Sousa, Helder Mateus Viana Espírito Santo, Fernando Oliveira Gouvêa de Figueiredo, Elizabeth Franklin Chilson, Cíntia Gomes de Freitas, Márlon Breno Costa Santos da Graça, Fernando Mendonça d'Horta, Rafael Pereira Leitão, Marina Franco de almeida Maximiano, Fernando Pereira de Mendonça, Juliana da Silva Menger, José Wellington de Morais, Affonso Henrique Nascimento de Souza, Jorge Luiz Pereira de Souza, Valéria da Cunha Tavares, Julio Daniel do Vale, Eduardo Martins Venticinque, Jansen Alfredo Sampaio Zuanon, William Ernest Magnusson
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-02040-3; http://hdl.handle.net/1843/56264; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5781-7471; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0932-2308; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2571-1207; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9600-4625; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1640-490X; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9088-4828; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6495-8603; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4747-1857; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8945-6105; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7213-5284; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5415-1822; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7256-1868; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9384-7467; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8091-4114; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7990-0068; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8922-2763; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9583-3392; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6968-8275; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3801-7054; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7887-8935; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4574-8111; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0966-0139; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3455-9107; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8354-2750; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1988-3950
• topic: Tropical forest; Species distribution; Community composition; Endemism areas; Environmental filtering; Ferns; Termites; Birds; Bats; Gingers; Fish; Palms; Ants; Butterflies; Animais das florestas tropicais; Ecologia - Amazônia; Samambaia; Termita; Pássaro; Morcego; Gengibre; Peixe; Palmeira; Formiga; Borboleta; Rios - Brasil

To determine the effect of rivers, environmental conditions, and isolation by distance on the distribution of species in Amazonia. Location: Brazilian Amazonia. Time period: Current. Major taxa studied: Birds, fishes, bats, ants, termites, butterflies, ferns ? lycophytes, gingers and palms. We compiled a unique dataset of biotic and abiotic information from 822 plots spread over the Brazilian Amazon. We evaluated the effects of environment, geographic distance and dispersal barriers (rivers) on assemblage composition of animal and plant taxa using multivariate techniques and distance- and raw-data-based regression approaches. Environmental variables (soil/water), geographic distance, and rivers were associated with the distribution of most taxa. The wide and relatively old Amazon River tended to determine differences in community composition for most biological groups. Despite this association, environment and geographic distance were generally more important than rivers in explaining the changes in species composition. The results from multi-taxa comparisons suggest that variation in community composition in Amazonia reflects both dispersal limitation (isolation by distance or by large rivers) and the adaptation of species to local environmental conditions. Larger and older river barriers influenced the distribution of species. However, in general this effect is weaker than the effects of environmental gradients or geographical distance at broad scales in Amazonia, but the relative importance of each of these processes varies among biological groups.