dc.contributor.author |
Foord, Stefan Hendrik |
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dc.contributor.author |
Swanepoel, Lourens Hendrik |
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dc.contributor.author |
Evans, Steven Wiiliams |
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dc.contributor.author |
Schoeman, Colin Stephan |
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dc.contributor.author |
Erasmus, Barend Frederik N. |
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dc.contributor.author |
Schoeman, M. Corrie |
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dc.contributor.author |
Keith, Martin |
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dc.contributor.author |
Smith, Alain |
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dc.contributor.author |
Mauda, Evans Vusani |
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dc.contributor.author |
Maree, Naudene |
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Nembudani, Nkhumeleni |
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, Anna Sophia |
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dc.contributor.author |
Munyai, Thinandavha Caswell |
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dc.contributor.author |
Taylor, Peter John |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2022-11-03T04:19:49Z |
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dc.date.available |
2022-11-03T04:19:49Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2018-05-08 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
Foord SH, Swanepoel LH, Evans SW, Schoeman CS, Erasmus BFN, Schoeman MC, et al. (2018) Animal taxa contrast in their scale- dependent responses to land use change in rural Africa. PLoS ONE 13(5): e0194336. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0194336.<http://hdl.handle.net/11602/2320>. |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/11602/2320 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Human-dominated landscapes comprise the bulk of the world's terrestrial surface and Africa
is predicted to experience the largest relative increase over the next century. A multi-scale
approach is required to identify processes that maintain diversity in these landscapes. Here
we identify scales at which animal diversity responds by partitioning regional diversity in a
rural African agro-ecosystem between one temporal and four spatial scales. Human land
use practices are the main driver of diversity in all seven animal assemblages considered,
with medium sized mammals and birds most affected. Even the least affected taxa, bats
and non-volant small mammals (rodents), responded with increased abundance in settlements
and agricultural sites respectively. Regional turnover was important to invertebrate
taxa and their response to human land use was intermediate between that of the vertebrate
extremes. Local scale (< 300 m) heterogeneity was the next most important level for all
taxa, highlighting the importance of fine scale processes for the maintenance of biodiversity.
Identifying the triggers of these changes within the context of functional landscapes would
provide the context for the long-term sustainability of these rapidly changing landscapes |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
Funded by German Federal Government,
BMBF (SPACES programme: Limpopo Living
Landscapes project); the National Research
Foundation (NRF); the Department of Science &
Technology (DST) through the South African
Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) Chair on
Biodiversity Value and Change in the Vhembe
Biosphere Reserve, hosted and supported by theUniversity of Venda; the Sasol Agriculture Trust;
Bundesministerium fuÈr Bildung und Forschung; the
University of Venda (SMNS/17/Zoo/01 to LHS);
International Foundation for Science (D/4984-2 to
LHS); and the Centre for Invasion Biology. |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
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dc.title |
Animal taxa contrast in their scale-dependent responses to land use change in rural Africa |
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dc.type |
Article |
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