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Article: Macrolepidopteran assemblages along an altitudinal gradient in subtropical rainforest - exploring indicators of climate change
Title | Macrolepidopteran assemblages along an altitudinal gradient in subtropical rainforest - exploring indicators of climate change |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Climate change Subtropical Lepidoptera IBISCA Rainforest |
Issue Date | 2011 |
Citation | Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 2011, v. 55, n. 2, p. 375-389 How to Cite? |
Abstract | 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. © The State of Queensland (Queensland Museum) 2011. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/250988 |
ISSN | 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.179 |
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dc.contributor.author | Ashton, Louise A. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kitching, Roger L. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Maunsell, Sarah C. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Bito, Darren | - |
dc.contributor.author | Putland, David A. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-02-01T01:54:16Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-02-01T01:54:16Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 2011, v. 55, n. 2, p. 375-389 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0079-8835 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/250988 | - |
dc.description.abstract | 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. © The State of Queensland (Queensland Museum) 2011. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Memoirs of the Queensland Museum | - |
dc.subject | Climate change | - |
dc.subject | Subtropical | - |
dc.subject | Lepidoptera | - |
dc.subject | IBISCA | - |
dc.subject | Rainforest | - |
dc.title | Macrolepidopteran assemblages along an altitudinal gradient in subtropical rainforest - exploring indicators of climate change | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84859945552 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 55 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 375 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 389 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0079-8835 | - |