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Data from: Habitat specialization and climate affect arthropod fitness: a comparison of generalist vs. specialist spider species in Arctic and temperate biomes
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Data from: Host and habitat specialization of avian malaria in Africa
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Data from: Cryptic diversity hides host and habitat specialization In a gorgonian-algal symbiosis
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Data from: Consequences of habitat change and resource selection specialization for population limitation in cavity-nesting birds
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Urban specialization reduces habitat connectivity by a highly mobile wading bird
<p>Background</p> <p>Mobile animals transport nutrients and propagules across habitats, and are crucial for the functioning of food webs and for ecosystem services. Human activities such as urbanization can alter animal movement behavior, including site fidelity and resource use. Because many urban areas are adjacent to natural sites, mobile animals might connect natural and urban habitats. More generally, understanding animal movement patterns in urban areas can help predict how urban expansion will affect the roles of highly mobile animals in ecological processes.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Here, we examined movements by a seasonally nomadic wading bird, the American white ibis (Eudocimus albus), in South Florida, USA. White ibis are colonial wading birds that forage on aquatic prey; in recent years, some ibis have shifted their behavior to forage in urban parks, where they are fed by people. We used a spatial network approach to investigate how individual movement patterns influence connectivity between urban and non-urban sites. We built a network of habitat connectivity using GPS tracking data from ibis during their non-breeding season and compared this network to simulated networks that assumed individuals moved indiscriminately with respect to habitat type.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We found that the observed network was less connected than the simulated networks, that urban-urban and natural-natural connections were strong, and that individuals using urban sites had the least-variable habitat use. Importantly, the few ibis that used both urban and natural habitats contributed the most to connectivity.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Habitat specialization in urban-acclimated wildlife could reduce the exchange of propagules and nutrients between urban and natural areas, which has consequences both for beneficial effects of connectivity such as gene flow and for detrimental effects such as the spread of contaminants or pathogens.</p>
Data from: Cultural transmission of tool use combined with habitat specializations leads to fine-scale genetic structure in bottlenose dolphins
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Figure 4 in Habitat structure and host plant specialization drive taxonomic andfunctional composition of Heteroptera in postfire successional habitats
Figure 4. Local networks indicating interactions between bug species and their potential food sources. For abbreviations of plant species (left side of the graph), see Appendix 3. For abbreviations of bug species (right side of the graph), see Table 2. Abbreviations of sites: R, repeat-burnt sites; L, burnt logged; S, burnt logged and subsoiled; U, control unburnt. Lines in network U define the four modules detected in the unburnt site network.
Figure 3 in Habitat structure and host plant specialization drive taxonomic andfunctional composition of Heteroptera in postfire successional habitats
Figure 3. Biplot of the best model redundancy analysis of the percentage of bugs within each trophic group in the 20 sampling plots (see best model in Table 6). Environmental variables: PCA1, PCA2, Sab, Gab, Tab, Trich (see Section 2 for explanation of variables). Arrows pointing from origin to each bug feeding group have been omitted for clarity. Abbreviations of bug feeding groups: Om, omnivorous; Zoo, zoophagous; Pol, phytophagous-polyphagous; Oli, phytophagous-oligophagous; Mon, phytophagous-monophagous. Abbreviations of the sampling plots: R1 to R5, Repeat-burnt; L1 to L5, burnt logged; S1 to S5, burnt logged and subsoiled; U1 to U5 control unburnt. Axis 1 (horizontal) was significant (permutation test: 199 permutations, F-ratio = 15.2342, P = 0.005), representing 46. 7% of the data variance. Axis 2 (vertical) was not significant (6.3% of explained variance; permutation test: 399 permutations, F-ratio = 2.0471, P = 0.100).
Data from: Does ecological specialization transcend scale? Habitat partitioning among individuals and species of Anolis lizards
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Urban specialization reduces habitat connectivity by a highly mobile wading bird
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Data from: Cultural transmission of tool use combined with habitat specializations leads to fine-scale genetic structure in bottlenose dolphins
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Data from: Testing the niche breadth-range size hypothesis: habitat specialization versus performance in Australian alpine daisies
Relatively common species within a clade are expected to perform well across a wider range of conditions than their rarer relatives, yet experimental tests of this "niche breadth—range size" hypothesis remain surprisingly scarce. Rarity may arise due to trade-offs between specialization and performance across a wide range of environments. Here we use common garden and reciprocal transplant experiments to test the niche breadth—range size hypothesis, focusing on four common and three rare endemic alpine daisies (Brachyscome spp.) from the Australian Alps. We used three experimental contexts: 1) alpine reciprocal seedling experiment: a test of seedling survival and growth in three alpine habitat types differing in environmental quality and species diversity, 2) warm environment common garden: a test of whether common daisy species have higher growth rates and phenotypic plasticity, assessed in a common garden in a warmer climate and run simultaneously with experiment 1, and 3) alpine reciprocal seed experiment: a test of seed germination capacity and viability in the same three alpine habitat types as in experiment 1. In the alpine reciprocal seedling experiment, survival of all species was highest in the open heathland habitat where overall plant diversity is high, suggesting a general, positive response to a relatively productive, low-stress environment. We found only partial support for higher survival of rare species in their habitats of origin. In the warm environment common garden, three common daisies exhibited greater growth and biomass than two rare species, but the other rare species performed as well as the common species. In the alpine reciprocal seed experiment, common daisies exhibited higher germination across most habitats, but rare species maintained a higher proportion of viable seed in all conditions, suggesting different life history strategies. These results indicate that some but not all rare, alpine endemics exhibit stress tolerance at the cost of reduced growth rates in low-stress environments compared to common species. Finally, these findings suggest the seed stage is important in the persistence of rare species, and they provide only weak support at the seedling stage for the niche breadth-range size hypothesis.
Data from: Testing the niche breadth-range size hypothesis: habitat specialization versus performance in Australian alpine daisies
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