Spatial associations between plants and vegetation community characteristics provide insights into the processes influencing plant rarity

dc.contributor.authorSritharan, Meena (Sivagowre)
dc.contributor.authorScheele, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorBlanchard, Wade
dc.contributor.authorLindenmayer, David B
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-19T00:30:34Z
dc.date.available2024-03-19T00:30:34Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2022-11-13T07:17:15Z
dc.description.abstractDetermining the drivers of plant rarity is a major challenge in ecology. Analysing spatial associations between different plant species can provide an exploratory avenue for understanding the ecological drivers of plant rarity. Here, we examined the different types of spatial associations between rare and common plants to determine if they influence the occurrence patterns of rare species. We completed vegetation surveys at 86 sites in woodland, forest, and heath communities in south-east Australia. We also examined two different rarity measures to quantify how categorisation criteria affected our results. Rare species were more likely to have positive associations with both rare and common species across all three vegetation communities. However, common species had positive or negative associations with rare and other common species, depending on the vegetation community in which they occurred. Rare species were positively associated with species diversity in forest communities. In woodland communities, rare species were associated negatively with species diversity but positively associated with species evenness. Rare species with high habitat specificity were more clustered spatially than expected by chance. Efforts to understand the drivers of plant rarity should use rarity definitions that consider habitat specificity. Our findings suggest that examining spatial associations between plants can help understand the drivers of plant rarity.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was funded by the Threatened Species Recovery Hub as part of the National Environmental Science Program. The Threatened Species Recovery Hub is supported through funding from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Programme. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/316105
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.provenanceThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_AU
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_AU
dc.rights© 2021 Sritharan et al.en_AU
dc.rights.licenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licenseen_AU
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_AU
dc.sourcePLOS ONEen_AU
dc.titleSpatial associations between plants and vegetation community characteristics provide insights into the processes influencing plant rarityen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue12en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage18en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationSritharan, Meena Sivagowre, College of Science, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationScheele, Benjamin, College of Science, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationBlanchard, Wade, College of Science, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLindenmayer, David, College of Science, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu4408124@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidSritharan, Meena Sivagowre, u6603702en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidScheele, Benjamin, u4408124en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidBlanchard, Wade, u5092390en_AU
local.contributor.authoruidLindenmayer, David, u8808483en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor410407 - Wildlife and habitat managementen_AU
local.identifier.absfor410205 - Fire ecologyen_AU
local.identifier.absfor410401 - Conservation and biodiversityen_AU
local.identifier.absseo180606 - Terrestrial biodiversityen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB23383en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume16en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0260215en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85122022494
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.plosone.org/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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