Structuring of plant communities across agricultural landscape mosaics: the importance of connectivity and the scale of effect.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Plant communities of fragmented agricultural landscapes, are subject to patch isolation and scale-dependent effects. Variation in configuration, composition, and distance from one another affect biological processes of disturbance, productivity, and the movement ecology of species. However, connectivity and spatial structuring among these diverse communities are rarely considered together in the investigation of biological processes. Spatially optimised predictor variables that are based on informed measures of connectivity among communities, offer a solution to untangling multiple processes that drive biodiversity.

Results

To address the gap between theory and practice, a novel spatial optimisation method that incorporates hypotheses of community connectivity, wa

SUBMITTER: McLeish M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8427894 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature