Effects of land‐use change on avian taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in a tropical montane rainforest

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Forest area predicts all dimensions of small mammal and lizard diversity in Amazonian insular forest fragments

“…All three metrics of a-diversity (taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic) in small mammals and lizards changed predictably with forest area, which is consistent with our expectations (Petchey et al 2007, Meynard et al 2011, Rurangwa et al 2021. Given the expected intercorrelation between these three dimensions of diversity (Tucker et al 2018), our results suggest that considering either taxonomic, functional or phylogenetic diversity may be sufficient to predict others (Safi et al 2011, Dreiss et al 2015.…”

“…Since functional traits that allow species to persist in the environment tend to be evolutionarily conserved (i.e. positive phylogenetic signal: Safi et al 2011), phylogenetic and functional diversity tend to be correlated (Tucker et al 2018, Rurangwa et al 2021.…”

Assessing taxonomic and functional change in British breeding bird assemblages over time

“…The UK can be described as a post‐perturbation system where considerable LULC change has already occurred, and the pace, range and intensity of LULC change has slowed in recent decades. Different results are expected for other countries, particularly many tropical countries, where LULC change is more prominent (e.g., Rurangwa et al., 2021). Our LULC data also do not account for fragmentation, small changes in LULC within each 1 km 2 and agricultural intensification, all of which can potentially drive assemblage change (Boulinier et al., 1998; Hendershot et al., 2020).…”

“…Warm SD is the change in the standard deviation of mean temperature in the warmest month across the period. Prec SD is the change in the standard deviation of mean total precipitation across the period countries, where LULC change is more prominent (e.g., Rurangwa et al, 2021). Our LULC data also do not account for fragmentation, small changes in LULC within each 1 km 2 and agricultural intensification, all of which can potentially drive assemblage change (Boulinier et al, 1998;Hendershot et al, 2020).…”

A bird in the hand: Global‐scale morphological trait datasets open new frontiers of ecology, evolution and ecosystem science

“…Neate‐Clegg et al, 2021). Similarly, studies applying techniques developed in community ecology have begun to explore how the trait structure and functional diversity of bird assemblages are affected by climate change (Bender et al, 2019; Stewart et al, 2022), urbanisation (Sol et al, 2020), and agricultural expansion (Cannon et al, 2019; Chapman et al, 2018; Rurangwa et al, 2020). Using a trait‐based approach can also give important insights into functional turnover between system states.…”