Data of ant community compositions and functional traits responding to land-use change at the local scale.

ABSTRACT: Aim: Off-reserve conservation is a major contributor to China biodiversity conservation efforts, biodiversity conservation being achieved within afforestation and low-intensity agriculture in fragmented landscapes. Functional trait is more strongly related to ecological processes than taxonomic diversity and reflects ecosystem functioning and species responses to environmental changes. In this study, we selected five habitats that differ in degree of disturbance to explore the effects of land use on ant community compositions, traits distributions and functional diversity change. We assessed how habitat disturbance affects the ant community compositions and traits distributions and asked if ant functional diversity respond to disturbance at the local scale? Location: Lüchun C

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9848497 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature