Habitat availability drives the distribution-abundance relationship in phytophagous true bugs in managed grasslands.

Abstract:

:The nearly universal positive relationship between the distribution and abundance of species has been explained by several hypotheses but hitherto no consensus has been reached. Here, we used monitoring data of 105 phytophagous true bug species (Heteroptera) from 150 grassland sites over six years to test how (1) range position, (2) resource use, (3) resource availability, (4) density-dependent habitat selection, (5) metapopulation dynamics, and (6) habitat dispersal affect the distribution-abundance relationship. For the use in a confirmatory path analysis, we constructed causal pathways representing the hypothesized relationships and tested them separately and in a combined analysis. Our results show that the distribution-abundance relationship in phytophagous true bugs is driven by habitat-availability. An increasing local density of the host-plants increases the distribution of the species in the landscape, which in turn increases their local abundance. Thereby habitat availability facilitates dispersal success. We conclude that local abundance of herbivores facing habitat destruction could decline owing to a decrease in population dynamics between sites at the landscape scale. Finally, our results underline the potential of confirmatory path analysis for testing competing hypotheses.

journal_name

Ecology

journal_title

Ecology

authors

Friess N,Gossner MM,Weisser WW,Brandl R,Brändle M

doi

10.1002/ecy.1947

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-10-01 00:00:00

pages

2561-2573

issue

10

eissn

0012-9658

issn

1939-9170

journal_volume

98

pub_type

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