TY - JOUR

T1 - FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments

AU - Chase, Jonathan M.

AU - Liebergesell, Mario

AU - Sagouis, Alban

AU - May, Felix

AU - Blowes, Shane A.

AU - Berg, Åke

AU - Bernard, Enrico

AU - Brosi, Berry J.

AU - Cadotte, Marc W.

AU - Cayuela, Luis

AU - Chiarello, Adriano G.

AU - Cosson, Jean-Francois

AU - Cresswell, Will

AU - Dami, Filibus Danjuma

AU - Dauber, Jens

AU - Dickman, Chris R.

AU - Didham, Raphael K.

AU - Edwards, David P.

AU - Farneda, Fábio Z.

AU - Gavish, Yoni

AU - Gonçalves-Souza, Thiago

AU - Guadagnin, Demetrio Luis

AU - Henry, Mickaël

AU - López-Baucells, Adrià

AU - Kappes, Heike

AU - Mac Nally, Ralph

AU - Manu, Shiiwua

AU - Martensen, Alexandre Camargo

AU - McCollin, Duncan

AU - Meyer, Christoph F. J.

AU - Neckel-Oliveira, Selvino

AU - Nogueira, André

AU - Pons, Jean-Marc

AU - Raheem, Dinarzarde C.

AU - Ramos, Flavio Nunes

AU - Rocha, Ricardo

AU - Sam, Katerina

AU - Slade, Eleanor

AU - Stireman III, John O.

AU - Struebig, Matthew J.

AU - Vasconcelos, Heraldo

AU - Ziv, Yaron

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2019 The Authors. Ecology © 2019 The Ecological Society of America

PY - 2019/12/1

Y1 - 2019/12/1

N2 - Habitat destruction is the single greatest anthropogenic threat to biodiversity. Decades of research on this issue have led to the accumulation of hundreds of data sets comparing species assemblages in larger, intact, habitats to smaller, more fragmented, habitats. Despite this, little synthesis or consensus has been achieved, primarily because of non-standardized sampling methodology and analyses of notoriously scale-dependent response variables (i.e., species richness). To be able to compare and contrast the results of habitat fragmentation on species? assemblages, it is necessary to have the underlying data on species abundances and sampling intensity, so that standardization can be achieved. To accomplish this, we systematically searched the literature for studies where abundances of species in assemblages (of any taxa) were sampled from many habitat patches that varied in size. From these, we extracted data from several studies, and contacted authors of studies where appropriate data were collected but not published, giving us 117 studies that compared species assemblages among habitat fragments that varied in area. Less than one-half (41) of studies came from tropical forests of Central and South America, but there were many studies from temperate forests and grasslands from all continents except Antarctica. Fifty-four of the studies were on invertebrates (mostly insects), but there were several studies on plants (15), birds (16), mammals (19), and reptiles and amphibians (13). We also collected qualitative information on the length of time since fragmentation. With data on total and relative abundances (and identities) of species, sampling effort, and affiliated meta-data about the study sites, these data can be used to more definitively test hypotheses about the role of habitat fragmentation in altering patterns of biodiversity. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this data paper and the associated Dryad data set if the data are used in publications.

AB - Habitat destruction is the single greatest anthropogenic threat to biodiversity. Decades of research on this issue have led to the accumulation of hundreds of data sets comparing species assemblages in larger, intact, habitats to smaller, more fragmented, habitats. Despite this, little synthesis or consensus has been achieved, primarily because of non-standardized sampling methodology and analyses of notoriously scale-dependent response variables (i.e., species richness). To be able to compare and contrast the results of habitat fragmentation on species? assemblages, it is necessary to have the underlying data on species abundances and sampling intensity, so that standardization can be achieved. To accomplish this, we systematically searched the literature for studies where abundances of species in assemblages (of any taxa) were sampled from many habitat patches that varied in size. From these, we extracted data from several studies, and contacted authors of studies where appropriate data were collected but not published, giving us 117 studies that compared species assemblages among habitat fragments that varied in area. Less than one-half (41) of studies came from tropical forests of Central and South America, but there were many studies from temperate forests and grasslands from all continents except Antarctica. Fifty-four of the studies were on invertebrates (mostly insects), but there were several studies on plants (15), birds (16), mammals (19), and reptiles and amphibians (13). We also collected qualitative information on the length of time since fragmentation. With data on total and relative abundances (and identities) of species, sampling effort, and affiliated meta-data about the study sites, these data can be used to more definitively test hypotheses about the role of habitat fragmentation in altering patterns of biodiversity. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this data paper and the associated Dryad data set if the data are used in publications.

KW - Didactics of sciences education

KW - disturbance

KW - habitat fragmentation

KW - habitat loss

KW - species abundance distribution

KW - species-area relationship

KW - Species richness

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U2 - 10.1002/ecy.2861

DO - 10.1002/ecy.2861

M3 - Other (editorial matter etc.)

C2 - 31380568

VL - 100

JO - Ecology

JF - Ecology

SN - 0012-9658

IS - 12

M1 - e02861

ER -