Climate and land-use changes are predicted to impact biodiversity,threatening ecosystem services and functions.However,their combined effects on the functional diversity of mammals at the regional scale remain unclear...Climate and land-use changes are predicted to impact biodiversity,threatening ecosystem services and functions.However,their combined effects on the functional diversity of mammals at the regional scale remain unclear,especially at the beta level.Here,we use projected climate and land-use changes in China to investigate their potential effects on the alpha and beta functional diversities of terrestrial mammals under low-and high-emission scenarios.In the current projection,we showed strong positive spatial correlations between functional richness and species richness.Functional evenness(FEve),functional specialization(FSpe),and functional originality(FOri)decreased with species richness,and functional divergence(FDiv)increased first and then plateaued.Functional beta diversity was dominated by its nestedness component,in contrast to the taxonomic facet.Potential changes in species richness are more strongly influenced by land-use change under the low-emission scenario,while under the high-emission scenario,they are more strongly influenced by climate change.Changes in functional richness(FRic)were inconsistent with those in species richness,with a magnitude of decreases greater than predicted from species richness.Moreover,mammal assemblages showed potential functional differentiation(FD)across the country,and the trends exceeded those towards taxonomic differentiation(TD).Our findings help us understand the processes underlying biodiversity responses to global changes on multiple facets and provide new insight for conservation plans.展开更多
In this study,the world’s land(except Antarctica)is divided into 67 basic geographical units according to ecological types.Using our newly proposed MSCA(Multivariate Similarity Clustering Analysis)method,7,591 specie...In this study,the world’s land(except Antarctica)is divided into 67 basic geographical units according to ecological types.Using our newly proposed MSCA(Multivariate Similarity Clustering Analysis)method,7,591 species of modern terrestrial mammals belonging to 1,374 genera in 162 families and 2,378 species of mammals in the Wallace era before 1876 are quantitatively analyzed,and almost the same clustering results are obtained,with clear levels and reasonable clustering,which conform to the principles of geography,statistics,ecology and biology.It not only affirms and supports the reasonable kernel of Wallace’s scheme,but also puts forward suggestions that should be revised and improved.The large or small differences between the clustering results and the mammalian geographical zoning schemes of contemporary scholars are caused by different analysis methods,and they are highly consistent with the analysis results of chordates,angiosperms and insects in the world analyzed by the same method.Once again,it confirms the homogeneity of the global biological distribution pattern of major groups,and the possibility of building a unified biogeographic zoning system in the world.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32225033,32071496)Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2022YFF1301500)。
文摘Climate and land-use changes are predicted to impact biodiversity,threatening ecosystem services and functions.However,their combined effects on the functional diversity of mammals at the regional scale remain unclear,especially at the beta level.Here,we use projected climate and land-use changes in China to investigate their potential effects on the alpha and beta functional diversities of terrestrial mammals under low-and high-emission scenarios.In the current projection,we showed strong positive spatial correlations between functional richness and species richness.Functional evenness(FEve),functional specialization(FSpe),and functional originality(FOri)decreased with species richness,and functional divergence(FDiv)increased first and then plateaued.Functional beta diversity was dominated by its nestedness component,in contrast to the taxonomic facet.Potential changes in species richness are more strongly influenced by land-use change under the low-emission scenario,while under the high-emission scenario,they are more strongly influenced by climate change.Changes in functional richness(FRic)were inconsistent with those in species richness,with a magnitude of decreases greater than predicted from species richness.Moreover,mammal assemblages showed potential functional differentiation(FD)across the country,and the trends exceeded those towards taxonomic differentiation(TD).Our findings help us understand the processes underlying biodiversity responses to global changes on multiple facets and provide new insight for conservation plans.
基金supported by the key laboratory foundation of Henna(112300413221).
文摘In this study,the world’s land(except Antarctica)is divided into 67 basic geographical units according to ecological types.Using our newly proposed MSCA(Multivariate Similarity Clustering Analysis)method,7,591 species of modern terrestrial mammals belonging to 1,374 genera in 162 families and 2,378 species of mammals in the Wallace era before 1876 are quantitatively analyzed,and almost the same clustering results are obtained,with clear levels and reasonable clustering,which conform to the principles of geography,statistics,ecology and biology.It not only affirms and supports the reasonable kernel of Wallace’s scheme,but also puts forward suggestions that should be revised and improved.The large or small differences between the clustering results and the mammalian geographical zoning schemes of contemporary scholars are caused by different analysis methods,and they are highly consistent with the analysis results of chordates,angiosperms and insects in the world analyzed by the same method.Once again,it confirms the homogeneity of the global biological distribution pattern of major groups,and the possibility of building a unified biogeographic zoning system in the world.
