Do Forest Fires Make Biotic Communities Homogeneous or Heterogeneous? Patterns of Taxonomic, Functional, and Phylogenetic Ant Beta Diversity at Local and Regional Landscape Scales

Biotic homogenization—the erosion of biological differences among ecosystems due to human disturbance—is a pervasive threat to forest landscapes given the current global biodiversity crisis. In Mediterranean forests, wildfire is a particularly common disturbance that affects biodiversity at local, r...

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Main Authors: Xavier Arnan, Xim Cerdá, Anselm Rodrigo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/ffgc.2020.00067/full