Integrating Landscape Disturbance and Indicator Species in Conservation Studies

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Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Pedro
Data de Publicação: 2013
Outros Autores: Rigal, François, Fattorini, Simone, Terzopoulou, Sofia, Borges, Paulo A. V.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/1973
Resumo: Copyright: © 2013 Cardoso et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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spelling Integrating Landscape Disturbance and Indicator Species in Conservation StudiesConservation StudiesIndicator SpeciesAzoresCopyright: © 2013 Cardoso et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.Successful conservation plans are conditioned by our ability to detect anthropogenic change in space and time and various statistical analyses have been developed to handle this critical issue. The main objective of this paper is to illustrate a new approach for spatial analysis in conservation biology. Here, we propose a two-step protocol. First, we introduce a new disturbance metric which provides a continuous measure of disturbance for any focal communities on the basis of the surrounding landscape matrix. Second, we use this new gradient to estimate species and community disturbance thresholds by implementing a recently developed method called Threshold Indicator Taxa ANalysis (TITAN). TITAN detects changes in species distributions along environmental gradients using indicators species analysis and assesses synchrony among species change points as evidence for community thresholds. We demonstrate our method with soil arthropod assemblages along a disturbance gradient in Terceira Island (Azores, Portugal). We show that our new disturbance metric realistically reflects disturbance patterns, especially in buffer zones (ecotones) between land use categories. By estimating species disturbance thresholds with TITAN along the disturbance gradient in Terceira, we show that species significantly associated with low disturbance differ from those associated with high disturbance in their biogeographical origin (endemics, non-endemic natives and exotics) and taxonomy (order). Finally, we suggest that mapping the disturbance community thresholds may reveal areas of primary interest for conservation, since these may host indigenous species sensitive to high disturbance levels. This new framework may be useful when: (1) both local and regional processes are to be reflected on single disturbance measures; (2) these are better quantified in a continuous gradient; (3) mapping disturbance of large regions using fine scales is necessary; (4) indicator species for disturbance are searched for and; (5) community thresholds are useful to understand the global dynamics of habitats.Public Library of ScienceRepositório da Universidade dos AçoresCardoso, PedroRigal, FrançoisFattorini, SimoneTerzopoulou, SofiaBorges, Paulo A. V.2013-05-21T11:21:00Z2013-05-012013-05-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/1973engCardoso, P., Rigal, F., Fattorini, S., Terzopoulou, S. & Borges, P.A.V. (2013). "Integrating Landscape Disturbance and Indicator Species in Conservation Studies". «PLoS ONE», 8(5): e63294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0063294.1932-6203 (Print)info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2022-12-20T14:29:45ZPortal AgregadorONG
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Integrating Landscape Disturbance and Indicator Species in Conservation Studies
title Integrating Landscape Disturbance and Indicator Species in Conservation Studies
spellingShingle Integrating Landscape Disturbance and Indicator Species in Conservation Studies
Cardoso, Pedro
Conservation Studies
Indicator Species
Azores
title_short Integrating Landscape Disturbance and Indicator Species in Conservation Studies
title_full Integrating Landscape Disturbance and Indicator Species in Conservation Studies
title_fullStr Integrating Landscape Disturbance and Indicator Species in Conservation Studies
title_full_unstemmed Integrating Landscape Disturbance and Indicator Species in Conservation Studies
title_sort Integrating Landscape Disturbance and Indicator Species in Conservation Studies
author Cardoso, Pedro
author_facet Cardoso, Pedro
Rigal, François
Fattorini, Simone
Terzopoulou, Sofia
Borges, Paulo A. V.
author_role author
author2 Rigal, François
Fattorini, Simone
Terzopoulou, Sofia
Borges, Paulo A. V.
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Cardoso, Pedro
Rigal, François
Fattorini, Simone
Terzopoulou, Sofia
Borges, Paulo A. V.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Conservation Studies
Indicator Species
Azores
topic Conservation Studies
Indicator Species
Azores
description Copyright: © 2013 Cardoso et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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