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Variable responses of individual species to tropical forest degradation

bioRxiv, ISSN: 2692-8205
2024
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Variable responses of individual species to tropical forest degradation

2024 FEB 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Ecology Daily News -- According to news reporting based on a preprint abstract,

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The functional stability of ecosystems depends greatly on interspecific differences in responses to environmental perturbation. However, responses to perturbation are not necessarily invariant among populations of the same species, so intraspecific variation in responses might also contribute. Such inter-population response diversity has recently been shown to occur spatially across species ranges, but we lack estimates of the extent to which individual populations across an entire community might have perturbation responses that vary through time. We assess this using 524 taxa that have been repeatedly surveyed for the effects of tropical forest logging at a focal landscape in Sabah, Malaysia. Just 39 % of taxa - all with non-significant responses to forest degradation - had invariant responses. All other taxa (61 %) showed significantly different responses to the same forest degradation gradient across surveys, with 6 % of taxa responding to forest degradation in opposite directions across multiple surveys. Individual surveys had low power (< 80 %) to determine the correct direction of response to forest degradation for one-fifth of all taxa. Recurrent rounds of logging disturbance increased the prevalence of intra-population response diversity, while uncontrollable environmental variation and/or turnover of intraspecific phenotypes generated variable responses in at least 44 % of taxa. Our results show that the responses of individual species to local environmental perturbations are remarkably flexible, likely providing an unrealised boost to the stability of disturbed habitats such as logged tropical forests.

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Robert M. Ewers; William D. Pearse; C. L.David Orme; Tijmen de Lorm; Natasha Granville; Rahayu Adzhar; Tom R. Bishop; Michael J.W. Boyle; Hayley Brant; Ella Brasington; Lauren Cator; Philip M. Chapman; Jeremy Cusack; Charles W. Davison; Hollie Folkard-Tapp; Adam Fraser; Richard Gill; Ross E.J. Gray; Nichar Gregory; Sui Peng Heon; Isolde Lane-Shaw; Emma Mackintosh; Catherine S. Maclean; Stephanie Martin; Michael Massam; Amelia R. McKinlay; Ciar D. Noble; Frederica Poznansky; Aaron Prairie; Lan Qie; Terhi Riutta; Gabrielle Briana Roxby; Sarab S. Sethi; Adam Sharp; Edgar C. Turner; Joshua P. Twining; Maisie Vollans; Oliver Wearn; Fabienne Wiederkehr; Clare L. Wilkinson; Olivia Daniel; Cristina Banks-Leite; Priyanga Amarasekare; David C. Aldridge; William A. Foster; Martina F. Harianja; Sarah H. Luke; Tom Swinfield; Jack Thorley; Marc Ancrenaz; Georgina Atton; Holly Barclay; Maxwell V.L. Barclay; Kerry Calloway; Paul Eggleton; Henry Bernard; Mahadimenakbar M. Dawood; Arman Hadi Fikri; Evyen W. Jebrail; Boon Hee Kueh; Annabel Pianzin; Homathevi Rahman; Kalsum M. Yusah; Jake E. Bicknell; Zoe G. Davies; Nicolas J. Deere; Jessica K. Haysom; Simon Mitchell; Katherine E. Mullin; Dave J.I. Seaman; Matthew Struebig; Natalie Yoh; Joshua Blackman; Elizabeth L. Clare; Rosie Drinkwater; Tom M. Fayle; David R. Hemprich-Bennett; Victoria A. Kemp; Stephen J. Rossiter; Joseph Williamson; Sabine Both; David F.R.P. Burslem; Emma R. Bush; Chris Carbone; J. Marcus Rowcliffe; Vun Khen Chey; Arthur Chung; Noreen Majalap; Reuben Nilus; Martin Dančák; Katharine J.M. Dickinson; Raphael K. Didham; Timm F. Döbert; Bruce L. Webber; Rory A. Dow; David P. Edwards; Aisyah Faruk; Robert J. Fletcher; Rajeev Pillay; Ryan Gray; Glen Reynolds; Jane Hardwick; Owen T. Lewis; Michal Hroneš; Nick Jones; Palasiah Jotan; Radim Matula; Lois Kinneen; Roger Kitching; Sarah Maunsell; Oliver Konopik; Yadvinder Malhi; Jonathan M. Parrett; Marion Pfeifer; Yit Arn Teh; Lorenzo Picinali; Adi Shabrani; Eleanor M. Slade; Jani Sleutel; Nigel Stork; Martin Svátek; Heok Hui Tan; Darren C.J. Yeo; Anna Wong; Genevieve Yvondurocher; Nursyamin Zulkifli

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Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Immunology and Microbiology; Neuroscience; Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics

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