Small Mammals in Forests of Romania: Habitat Type Use and Additive Diversity Partitioning

被引:4
作者
Lazar, Anamaria [1 ]
Benedek, Ana Maria [2 ]
Sirbu, Ioan [2 ]
机构
[1] Transilvania Univ Brasov, Fac Food & Tourism, Dept Engn & Management Food & Tourism, 148 Castelului St, Brasov 500036, Romania
[2] Lucian Blaga Univ Sibiu, Fac Sci, 5-7 Ratiu St, Sibiu 550012, Romania
来源
FORESTS | 2021年 / 12卷 / 08期
关键词
alpha; beta; and delta diversities; rarefaction; rodents; shrews; multivariate ordination; community composition; niche width; BETA-DIVERSITY; SPECIES-DIVERSITY; SEED DISPERSAL; SPATIAL SCALES; COMMUNITIES; PLANTATIONS; RICHNESS; DENSITY; HOMOGENIZATION; GRADIENTS;
D O I
10.3390/f12081107
中图分类号
S7 [林业];
学科分类号
0829 ; 0907 ;
摘要
Small mammals are key components of forest ecosystems, playing vital roles for numerous groups of forest organisms: they exert bottom-up and top-down regulatory effects on vertebrate and invertebrate populations, respectively; they are fungus- and seed-dispersers and bioturbators. Therefore, preserving or restoring the diversity of small mammal communities may help maintain the functions of these ecosystems. In Romania, a country with low-intensity forest management and a high percentage of natural forests compared to other European countries, an overview of forest small mammal diversity and habitat type use is lacking, and our study aimed to fill this gap. We also aimed to partition the total small mammal diversity of Romanian forests into the alpha (plot-level), beta, and delta (among forest types) diversities, as well as further partition beta diversity into its spatial (among plots) and temporal (among years) components. We surveyed small mammals by live trapping in eight types of forest across Romania. We found that small mammal abundance was significantly higher in lowland than in mountain forests, but species richness was similar, being associated with the diversity of tree canopy, with the highest values in mixed forests. In contrast, small mammal heterogeneity was related to overall habitat heterogeneity. As predicted, community composition was most distinct in poplar plantations, where forest specialists coexist with open habitat species. Most of the diversity was represented by alpha diversity. Because of strong fluctuations in population density of dominant rodents, the temporal component of beta heterogeneity was larger than the spatial component, but species richness also presented an important temporal turnover. Our results show the importance of the time dimension in the design of the surveys aiming at estimating the diversity of small mammal communities, both at the local and regional scales.
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