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Local environmental context determines the colonisation of leaf shelters by arthropods: an experimental study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2022

Samuel Novais ,
Vicente Hernández-Ortiz ,
Karla Rodríguez-Hernández ,
Mauricio Quesada ,
G. Wilson Fernandes ,
Carolina Bañol-Pérez ,
Edgar A. Sánchez-García ,
Fabian A. Aldaba-Núñez ,
Luis J. Méndez-Vázquez  and
Manuel Ochoa
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Samuel Novais
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ecología A.C., Red de Interacciones Multitróficas, Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz91070, Mexico
Vicente Hernández-Ortiz
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ecología A.C., Red de Interacciones Multitróficas, Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz91070, Mexico
Karla Rodríguez-Hernández
Affiliation:
Posgrado del Instituto de Ecología A.C., Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz91070, Mexico
Mauricio Quesada
Affiliation:
Laboratorio Nacional de Análisis y Síntesis Ecológica, Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Morelia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Michoacán58190, Mexico Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Michoacán58190, Mexico
G. Wilson Fernandes
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Ecologia Evolutiva e Biodiversidade, Departamento de Genética, Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG30270-971, Brasil
Carolina Bañol-Pérez
Affiliation:
Programa de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Estatal Amazónica, Km. 2. 1/2 vía Puyo a Tena (Paso Lateral), Ecuador
Edgar A. Sánchez-García
Affiliation:
Posgrado del Instituto de Ecología A.C., Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz91070, Mexico
Fabian A. Aldaba-Núñez
Affiliation:
Posgrado del Instituto de Ecología A.C., Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz91070, Mexico
Luis J. Méndez-Vázquez
Affiliation:
Posgrado del Instituto de Ecología A.C., Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz91070, Mexico
Manuel Ochoa
Affiliation:
Posgrado del Instituto de Ecología A.C., Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz91070, Mexico
Marisol A. Zurita-Solís
Affiliation:
Posgrado del Instituto de Ecología A.C., Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz91070, Mexico
Armando Aguirre-Jaimes*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ecología A.C., Red de Interacciones Multitróficas, Carretera Antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz91070, Mexico
*
Author for correspondence: Armando Aguirre-Jaimes, Email: armando.aguirre@inecol.mx
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Abstract

The magnitude of facilitation by shelter-building engineers on community structure is expected to be greater when they increase limited resources in the environment. We evaluated the influence of local environmental context on the colonisation of leaf shelters by arthropods in a Mexican evergreen tropical rainforest. We compared the species richness and abundance of arthropods (total and for different guilds) colonising artificially rolled leaves in habitats differing in understory heterogeneity (forest edge > old-growth forests > living fences). Arthropod abundance of the most representative arthropod taxa (i.e., Araneae, Blattodea, Collembola and Psocoptera) colonising the rolled leaves was greater at forest edge, a trend also observed for average arthropod abundance, and for detritivore and predator guilds. In addition, fewer arthropod species and individuals colonised the rolled leaves in the living fence habitat, a trend also observed for most arthropod guilds. As forest edge is expected to have a greater arthropod diversity and stronger density-dependent interactions, a greater limitation of refuges from competitors or predators may have determined the higher colonisation of the rolled leaves in this habitat. Our results demonstrate that local environment context is an important factor that affects the colonisation of arthropods in leaf shelters.

Keywords

Arthropod diversityecosystem engineeringindirect interactionsleaf shelterlimiting resourcesmicroclimatic refuges
Type
Research Article
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Journal of Tropical Ecology , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , May 2022 , pp. 118 - 126
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© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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