Landscape- and Local-Scale Actions Are Essential to Conserve Regional Macrophyte Biodiversity.

ABSTRACT: Regional-scale pond diversity is supported by high variation in community composition. To effectively and efficiently conserve pond regional diversity, it is essential to recognize the community types in a focal region and the scales of the factors influencing the occurrence of respective community types. Based on a flora survey and GIS analysis of 367 ponds in western Japan, we developed a multinomial regression model that describes the relationship between aquatic macrophyte community type (based on cluster analysis) and five environmental factors that differ in the spatial scale at which they operate (i.e., landscape or local scale) and origin (i.e., natural or anthropogenic). A change in topographic configuration resulted in a transition of the community types with high species richnes

SUBMITTER: Akasaka M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5967199 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature