Data from: Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly
Cite this dataset
Zhao, Yuhao et al. (2024). Data from: Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.kh18932c5
Abstract
Anthropogenic activities have reshaped biodiversity on islands worldwide. However, it remains unclear how island attributes and land-use change interactively shape multiple facets of island biodiversity through community assembly processes. To answer this, we conducted bird surveys in various land-use types (mainly forest and farmland) using transects on 34 oceanic land-bridge islands in the largest archipelago of China. We found that bird species richness increases with island area and decreases with isolation, regardless of the intensity of land-use change. However, forest-dominated habitats exhibited lower richness than farmland-dominated habitats. Island bird assemblages generally comprised species that share more similar traits or evolutionary histories (i.e., functional and/or phylogenetic clustering) than expected if assemblages were randomly assembled. Contrary to our expectations, we observed that bird assemblages in forest-dominated habitats were more clustered on large and close islands, whereas assemblages in farmland-dominated habitats were more clustered on small islands. These contrasting results indicate that land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter the community assembly of birds on inhabited islands. Our findings emphasize the importance of incorporating human-modified habitats when examining the community assembly of island biota, and further suggest that agricultural landscapes on large islands may play essential roles in protecting countryside island biodiversity.
README: Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly
File List:
community_data.csv (bird species presence/absence on transects)
bird_trait.csv (trait data for 96 species)
bird_trait_41spp.xlsx (trait data for 41 species)
Final_data.csv
bird _tree.tre (phylogenetic tree of 96 species)
bird _tree_107spp.tre (phylogenetic tree of 107 species)
bird _tree_137spp.tre (phylogenetic tree of 137 species)
File descriptions:
community_data.csv
96 species (rows) × 70 transects (columns) community matrix.
bird_trait.csv (trait data for 96 species)
Body mass (g, log10-transformed), relative bill length (bill length/body length), relative wing length (wing length/body length), relative tail length (tail length/body length), relative tarsus length (tarsus length/body length), and hand-wing_index (HWI, 100 * Kipp's distance/wing length) of 96 bird species recorded on 70 transects of 34 study islands in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China.
bird_trait_41spp.xlsx (trait data for 41 species)
Body mass (g, log10-transformed), relative bill length (bill length/body mass), relative wing length (wing length/body mass), relative tail length (tail length/body mass), relative tarsus length (tarsus length/bodymass), and hand-wing_index (HWI, 100 * Kipp's distance/wing length) of 41 bird species that were additionally sourced for the species pool analyses. Note 11 species were in bold that only for the species pool of 107 species. Please see Text S3 in the electronic supplementary material.
Final_data.csv
Transect ID, Island ID, species richness (SR), island area (ha, log10-transformed, log10A), isolation (m, I), standardized effect size of mean pairwise distance (sesMPD, sesMPD107, and sesMPD137), standardized effect size of functional equivalent of mean pairwise distance (sesMFD, sesMFD107, and sesMFD137), mean hand-wing index of co-occurring species (mean_HWI) on 70 transects of 34 study islands in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China. Please see Text S3 in the electronic supplementary material for the meaning of subscript of 107 and 137.
bird _tree.tre (phylogenetic tree of 96 species)
The phylogenetic tree derived from BirdTree (http://birdtree.org) for 96 bird species recorded on 70 transects of 34 study islands in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China.
bird _tree_107spp.tre (phylogenetic tree of 107 species)
The phylogenetic tree derived from BirdTree (http://birdtree.org) for 107 bird species (including 96 species above) recorded in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China based on China Bird Report database (http://www.birdreport.cn/). Please see Text S2 in the electronic supplementary material.
bird _tree_137spp.tre (phylogenetic tree of 137 species)
The phylogenetic tree derived from BirdTree (http://birdtree.org) for 137 bird species recorded in the Zhoushan Archipelago, China and three closest regions to the Zhoushan Archipelago (Shanghai, Jiaxing and Ningbo) based on China Bird Report database (http://www.birdreport.cn/). Please see Text S2 in the electronic supplementary material.
Note: Above three phylogenetic trees of birds were downloaded from http://birdtree.org and have been uploaded as 'Supplemental Information' to Zenodo. The birdtree.org website accompanies the following study: Jetz W, Thomas GH, Joy JB, Hartmann K, Mooers AO (2012) The global diversity of birds in space and time. Nature 491: 444-448. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11631, and the Jetz et al. article in Nature should be cited in the primary reference list of any publication that uses data culled from birdtree.org.
Funding
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Award: 32311520284
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Award: 32071545
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Award: 32101278
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Award: 32371590
Program for Professor of Special Appointment (Eastern Scholar), Award: TP2020016