التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Macrolepidopteran assemblages along an altitudinal gradient in subtropical rainforest - exploring indicators of climate change |
| المؤلفون: |
Ashton, LA, Kitching, RL, Maunsell, SC, Bito, D, Putland, DA |
| بيانات النشر: |
Queensland Museum |
| سنة النشر: |
2011 |
| المجموعة: |
Griffith University: Griffith Research Online |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation, Biological sciences |
| الوصف: |
Moth assemblages have been widely used to estimate patterns of beta-diversity in forest ecosystems. As part of the IBISCA-Queensland project we examined patterns of diversity in a large subset of night-flying moths along an altitudinal gradient in subtropical rainforest. The permanent IBISCA-Queensland transect located in Lamington National Park, south-east Queensland, Australia, spans altitudes from 300 metres (m) to 1100 m above sea level (a.s.l.) within continuous, undisturbed rainforest. We sampled four replicate plots at each of five altitudes (300, 500, 700, 900, 1100 m a.s.l.). A total of 11 379 individual moths were sampled, belonging to approximately 865 morphospecies. Moth assemblages displayed a strong altitudinal signal at each of two sampling periods (October 2006 and March 2007). The results show that cloud forest above 900 m a.s.l. where Nothofagus moorei becomes dominant, contains a number of moth species that are restricted to the high elevation forest and these species may be most threatened by climatic change. The analyses presented here suggest a set of 18 moth species which may be useful as part of a multi-taxon predictor set for future monitoring of the impact of global warming on forest biodiversity. ? climate change, subtropical, rainforest, IBISCA ; Griffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment ; Full Text |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: |
application/pdf |
| اللغة: |
English |
| تدمد: |
0079-8835 |
| Relation: |
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum; http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/About+Us/Publications/Memoirs+of+the+Queensland+Museum; http://hdl.handle.net/10072/42838 |
| الاتاحة: |
http://hdl.handle.net/10072/42838 |
| Rights: |
© 2011 Queensland Museum. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. ; open access |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.EC3F2297 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
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