Climatic variables influence the temporal dynamics of an anuran metacommunity in a nonstationary way.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the temporal dynamics of communities is crucial to predict how communities respond to climate change. Several factors can promote variation in phenology among species, including tracking of seasonal resources, adaptive responses to other species, demographic stochasticity, and physiological constraints. The activities of ectothermic vertebrates are sensitive to climatic variations due to the effect of temperature and humidity on species physiology. However, most studies on temporal dynamics have analyzed multi-year data and do not have resolution to discriminate within-year patterns that can determine community assembly cycles. Here, we tested the temporal stability and synchrony of calling activity and also how climatic variables influence anuran species composition througho

SUBMITTER: Ceron K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7297772 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature