Scale-dependent influences of environmental, historical, and spatial processes on taxonomic and functional beta diversity of Japanese bat assemblages.

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the relative influences of environmental, spatial, and historical factors, including the island-specific history of land connectivity, on bat assemblages in the Japanese Archipelago. We collected bat distribution data from 1408 studies and assigned them to Japan's First Standard Grid (approximately 6400 km²). Japanese bat assemblages were analyzed at two scales: the entire Japanese Archipelago comprised 16 islands and exclusively the four main islands. At first, we calculated taxonomic and functional total beta diversity (β _total) by Jaccard pairwise dissimilarity and then divided this into turnover (β _repl) and richness-difference (β _rich) components. We conducted hierarchical clustering of taxonomic

SUBMITTER: Maki T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11019122 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature