Factors Influencing Community Diversity

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Factors Influencing Community Diversity

I. Factors influencing Species Diversity

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I. Factors influencing Species Diversity

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B. Resource availability

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In General:

C. Disturbance

C. Disturbance (see Fig 13.17)

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2. What is a disturbance? -

II. Composite Hypotheses

B. A new twist with a phyletic shift

SCUBA 10m to 30m

Submersible 50m - 250m

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BA Transect 10m depth

BA Transect 20m depth

BA Transect 30m depth

BA Transect 50m depth

BA Transect 75m depth

BA Transect 100m depth

BA Transect 150m depth

BA Transect 200m depth

BA Transect 250m depth

Living Cover Shannon Diversity

What controls community composition?

Control Plots

Long-term Panels

Results

Evidence for biotic disturbance

Important Grazers:

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Change indices vs. Diversity indices

Connell 1978

Support for IDH or Intermediate Change Hypothesis?

A Composite Hypothesis

A New Twist with a Phyletic Shift

Global Perspective

Human Impact:

A Tale of Two Reefs

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D. Human disturbance and diversity

Take home message:

Author: avery

Email: averyw@csus.edu

Home Page: http://www.csus.edu/indiv/a/averyw/bio160/lectures3.htm