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Vztah mezi gradienty diverzity, geografickým rozšířením a životními strategiemi afrických ptáků / The relationship between diversity patters, spatial distribution and life-histories in African birds

Species with particular traits are not randomly distributed across landscape. Habitats provide the templet on which evolution forges characteristic morphologies and life-history strategies and environmental determinants in an ecological processes represent a filter for certain species with appropriate traits. It is essential to understand how spatial differences in community composition are affected by geographical patterns in a distribution of species characteristics. I was interested in searching and determining the relationships between species traits and environmental parameters within avifauna of south Africa. I investigated the effect of which variables of environment most influenced bird assemblage composition and distribution of species traits in space. Relationships between the environmental factors and the species traits and life-history stategies were investigated using RLQ analysis, a multivariate ordination method able to relate a species trait table to an environmental table by way of a species presence/absence table. The first axis of the RLQ analysis was highly statistically significant and explained most of the variability. It was strongly positively related to increasing productivity, to atributes reflecting vegetation character and to availability of water sources. The rest of...

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:312520
Date January 2011
CreatorsTószögyová, Anna
ContributorsStorch, David, Šizling, Arnošt Leoš
Source SetsCzech ETDs
LanguageSlovak
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

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