FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments

Habitat destruction is the single greatest anthropogenic threat to biodiversity. Decades of research on this issue have led to the accumulation of hundreds of data sets comparing species assemblages in larger, intact, habitats to smaller, more fragmented, habitats. Despite this, little synthesis or...

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Main Authors: Chase, Jonathan M., Liebergesell, Mario, Sagouis, Alban, May, Felix, Blowes, Shane A., Berg, Åke, Bernard, Enrico, Brosi, Berry J., Cadotte, Marc W., Cayuela, Luis, Chiarello, Adriano G., Cosson, Jean-Francois, Cresswell, Will, Dami, Filibus Danjuma, Dauber, Jens, Dickman, Chris R., Didham, Raphael K., Edwards, David P., Farneda, Fábio Z., Gavish, Yoni, Gonçalves-Souza, Thiago, Guadagnin, Demetrio Luis, Henry, Mickaël, López-Baucells, Adrià, Kappes, Heike, Mac Nally, Ralph, Manu, Shiiwua, Martensen, Alexandre Camargo, McCollin, Duncan, Meyer, Christoph F. J., Neckel-Oliveira, Selvino, Nogueira, André, Pons, Jean-Marc, Raheem, Dinarzarde C., Ramos, Flavio Nunes, Rocha, Ricardo, Sam, Katerina, Slade, Eleanor M., Stireman, John O., Struebig, Matthew J., Vasconcelos, Heraldo, Ziv, Yaron
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1459512023-02-28T16:39:53Z FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments Chase, Jonathan M. Liebergesell, Mario Sagouis, Alban May, Felix Blowes, Shane A. Berg, Åke Bernard, Enrico Brosi, Berry J. Cadotte, Marc W. Cayuela, Luis Chiarello, Adriano G. Cosson, Jean-Francois Cresswell, Will Dami, Filibus Danjuma Dauber, Jens Dickman, Chris R. Didham, Raphael K. Edwards, David P. Farneda, Fábio Z. Gavish, Yoni Gonçalves-Souza, Thiago Guadagnin, Demetrio Luis Henry, Mickaël López-Baucells, Adrià Kappes, Heike Mac Nally, Ralph Manu, Shiiwua Martensen, Alexandre Camargo McCollin, Duncan Meyer, Christoph F. J. Neckel-Oliveira, Selvino Nogueira, André Pons, Jean-Marc Raheem, Dinarzarde C. Ramos, Flavio Nunes Rocha, Ricardo Sam, Katerina Slade, Eleanor M. Stireman, John O. Struebig, Matthew J. Vasconcelos, Heraldo Ziv, Yaron Asian School of the Environment Science::Biological sciences::Ecology Disturbance Habitat Fragmentation Habitat destruction is the single greatest anthropogenic threat to biodiversity. Decades of research on this issue have led to the accumulation of hundreds of data sets comparing species assemblages in larger, intact, habitats to smaller, more fragmented, habitats. Despite this, little synthesis or consensus has been achieved, primarily because of non-standardized sampling methodology and analyses of notoriously scale-dependent response variables (i.e., species richness). To be able to compare and contrast the results of habitat fragmentation on species' assemblages, it is necessary to have the underlying data on species abundances and sampling intensity, so that standardization can be achieved. To accomplish this, we systematically searched the literature for studies where abundances of species in assemblages (of any taxa) were sampled from many habitat patches that varied in size. From these, we extracted data from several studies, and contacted authors of studies where appropriate data were collected but not published, giving us 117 studies that compared species assemblages among habitat fragments that varied in area. Less than one-half (41) of studies came from tropical forests of Central and South America, but there were many studies from temperate forests and grasslands from all continents except Antarctica. Fifty-four of the studies were on invertebrates (mostly insects), but there were several studies on plants (15), birds (16), mammals (19), and reptiles and amphibians (13). We also collected qualitative information on the length of time since fragmentation. With data on total and relative abundances (and identities) of species, sampling effort, and affiliated meta-data about the study sites, these data can be used to more definitively test hypotheses about the role of habitat fragmentation in altering patterns of biodiversity. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this data paper and the associated Dryad data set if the data are used in publications. Published version 2021-01-18T05:13:46Z 2021-01-18T05:13:46Z 2019 Journal Article Chase, J. M., Liebergesell, M., Sagouis, A., May, F., Blowes, S. A., Berg, Å., ... Ziv, Y. (2019). FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments. Ecology, 100(12), e02861-. doi:10.1002/ecy.2861 1939-9170 0000-0001-5580-4303 0000-0002-2304-1978 0000-0003-1914-5480 0000-0002-6025-5668 0000-0001-9017-7480 0000-0001-6689-3575 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145951 10.1002/ecy.2861 31380568 2-s2.0-85073940998 12 100 e02861 en Ecology © 2019 The Authors. Ecology © 2019 The Ecological Society of America. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. text/html
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topic Science::Biological sciences::Ecology
Disturbance
Habitat Fragmentation
spellingShingle Science::Biological sciences::Ecology
Disturbance
Habitat Fragmentation
Chase, Jonathan M.
Liebergesell, Mario
Sagouis, Alban
May, Felix
Blowes, Shane A.
Berg, Åke
Bernard, Enrico
Brosi, Berry J.
Cadotte, Marc W.
Cayuela, Luis
Chiarello, Adriano G.
Cosson, Jean-Francois
Cresswell, Will
Dami, Filibus Danjuma
Dauber, Jens
Dickman, Chris R.
Didham, Raphael K.
Edwards, David P.
Farneda, Fábio Z.
Gavish, Yoni
Gonçalves-Souza, Thiago
Guadagnin, Demetrio Luis
Henry, Mickaël
López-Baucells, Adrià
Kappes, Heike
Mac Nally, Ralph
Manu, Shiiwua
Martensen, Alexandre Camargo
McCollin, Duncan
Meyer, Christoph F. J.
Neckel-Oliveira, Selvino
Nogueira, André
Pons, Jean-Marc
Raheem, Dinarzarde C.
Ramos, Flavio Nunes
Rocha, Ricardo
Sam, Katerina
Slade, Eleanor M.
Stireman, John O.
Struebig, Matthew J.
Vasconcelos, Heraldo
Ziv, Yaron
FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments
description Habitat destruction is the single greatest anthropogenic threat to biodiversity. Decades of research on this issue have led to the accumulation of hundreds of data sets comparing species assemblages in larger, intact, habitats to smaller, more fragmented, habitats. Despite this, little synthesis or consensus has been achieved, primarily because of non-standardized sampling methodology and analyses of notoriously scale-dependent response variables (i.e., species richness). To be able to compare and contrast the results of habitat fragmentation on species' assemblages, it is necessary to have the underlying data on species abundances and sampling intensity, so that standardization can be achieved. To accomplish this, we systematically searched the literature for studies where abundances of species in assemblages (of any taxa) were sampled from many habitat patches that varied in size. From these, we extracted data from several studies, and contacted authors of studies where appropriate data were collected but not published, giving us 117 studies that compared species assemblages among habitat fragments that varied in area. Less than one-half (41) of studies came from tropical forests of Central and South America, but there were many studies from temperate forests and grasslands from all continents except Antarctica. Fifty-four of the studies were on invertebrates (mostly insects), but there were several studies on plants (15), birds (16), mammals (19), and reptiles and amphibians (13). We also collected qualitative information on the length of time since fragmentation. With data on total and relative abundances (and identities) of species, sampling effort, and affiliated meta-data about the study sites, these data can be used to more definitively test hypotheses about the role of habitat fragmentation in altering patterns of biodiversity. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this data paper and the associated Dryad data set if the data are used in publications.
author2 Asian School of the Environment
author_facet Asian School of the Environment
Chase, Jonathan M.
Liebergesell, Mario
Sagouis, Alban
May, Felix
Blowes, Shane A.
Berg, Åke
Bernard, Enrico
Brosi, Berry J.
Cadotte, Marc W.
Cayuela, Luis
Chiarello, Adriano G.
Cosson, Jean-Francois
Cresswell, Will
Dami, Filibus Danjuma
Dauber, Jens
Dickman, Chris R.
Didham, Raphael K.
Edwards, David P.
Farneda, Fábio Z.
Gavish, Yoni
Gonçalves-Souza, Thiago
Guadagnin, Demetrio Luis
Henry, Mickaël
López-Baucells, Adrià
Kappes, Heike
Mac Nally, Ralph
Manu, Shiiwua
Martensen, Alexandre Camargo
McCollin, Duncan
Meyer, Christoph F. J.
Neckel-Oliveira, Selvino
Nogueira, André
Pons, Jean-Marc
Raheem, Dinarzarde C.
Ramos, Flavio Nunes
Rocha, Ricardo
Sam, Katerina
Slade, Eleanor M.
Stireman, John O.
Struebig, Matthew J.
Vasconcelos, Heraldo
Ziv, Yaron
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author Chase, Jonathan M.
Liebergesell, Mario
Sagouis, Alban
May, Felix
Blowes, Shane A.
Berg, Åke
Bernard, Enrico
Brosi, Berry J.
Cadotte, Marc W.
Cayuela, Luis
Chiarello, Adriano G.
Cosson, Jean-Francois
Cresswell, Will
Dami, Filibus Danjuma
Dauber, Jens
Dickman, Chris R.
Didham, Raphael K.
Edwards, David P.
Farneda, Fábio Z.
Gavish, Yoni
Gonçalves-Souza, Thiago
Guadagnin, Demetrio Luis
Henry, Mickaël
López-Baucells, Adrià
Kappes, Heike
Mac Nally, Ralph
Manu, Shiiwua
Martensen, Alexandre Camargo
McCollin, Duncan
Meyer, Christoph F. J.
Neckel-Oliveira, Selvino
Nogueira, André
Pons, Jean-Marc
Raheem, Dinarzarde C.
Ramos, Flavio Nunes
Rocha, Ricardo
Sam, Katerina
Slade, Eleanor M.
Stireman, John O.
Struebig, Matthew J.
Vasconcelos, Heraldo
Ziv, Yaron
author_sort Chase, Jonathan M.
title FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments
title_short FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments
title_full FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments
title_fullStr FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments
title_full_unstemmed FragSAD : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments
title_sort fragsad : a database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments
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