Stochastic processes shape the functional and phylogenetic structure of bird assemblages at the mine area in southwest China,Current Zoology

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Stochastic processes shape the functional and phylogenetic structure of bird assemblages at the mine area in southwest China
Current Zoology ( IF 2.2 ) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 , DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoad013
Shilong Liu ₁ , Tianlong Zhou ₁ , Xiaocai Tan ₁ , Wambura M Mtemi ₁ , Aiwu Jiang ₁

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Understanding the mechanisms of community assembly is a key question in ecology. Metal pollution may result in significant changes in bird community structure and diversity, with implications for ecosystem processes and function. However, the relative importance of these processes in shaping the bird community at the polluted area is still not clear. Here, we explored bird species richness, functional, and phylogenetic diversity, and the assembly processes of community at the mine region of southwest China. Our results showed that the three dimensions of diversity at the mine area were lower than that at the reference sites. In the community assembly, the result was 0 < NRI / NFRI < 1.96, which indicated deterministic processes (environmental filtering) might drive community clustering. The results of the neutral community model, and normalized stochasticity ratio, showed the dominant role of stochastic processes in shaping the bird community assembly. We further quantified the community-level habitat niche breadth (Bcom), and we found that there was no difference in Bcom-value between the mine area and reference sites. This indicates that the bird communities at the mine area and three reference sites were not subjected to extreme environmental selection (same or different resource allocation) to form a highly specialized niche. These findings provide insights into the distribution patterns and dominant ecological processes of bird communities under metal exposure, and extend the knowledge in community assembly mechanisms of bird communities living in the mine area.

更新日期：2023-04-20

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