Title

The Collapsin Response Mediator Protein 5 Onconeural Protein Is Expressed In Schwann Cells Under Axonal Signals And Regulates Axon-Schwann Cell Interactions

Keywords

Florida rosemary scrub; Nestedness; Patch connectivity; Patch quality; Patch-incidence model; Shrubland

Abstract

Metacommunity theory allows predictions about the dynamics of potentially interacting species' assemblages that are linked by dispersal, but strong empirical tests of the theory are rare. We analyzed the metacommunity dynamics of Florida rosemary scrub, a patchily distributed pyrogenic community, to test predictions about turnover rates, community nestedness, and responses to patch size, arrangement, and quality. We collected occurrence data for 45 plant species from 88 rosemary scrub patches in 1989 and 2005 and used growth form, mechanism of regeneration after fire, and degree of habitat specialization to categorize species by life history. We tested whether patch size, fire history, and structural connectivity (a measure of proximity and size of surrounding patches) could be used to predict apparent extinctions and colonizations. In addition, we tested the accuracy of incidence-function models built with the patch survey data from 1989. After fire local extinction rates were higher for herbs than woody plants, higher for species that regenerated only from seed than species able to resprout, and higher for generalist than specialist species. Fewer rosemary specialists and a higher proportion of habitat generalists were extirpated on recently burned patches than on patches not burned between 1989 and 2005. Nestedness was highest for specialists among all life-history groups. Estimated model parameters from 1989 predicted the observed (1989-2005) extinction rates and the number of patches with persistent populations of individual species. These results indicate that species with different life-history strategies within the same metacommunity can have substantially different responses to patch configuration and quality. Real metacommunities may not conform to certain assumptions of simple models, but incidence-function models that consider only patch size, configuration, and quality can have significant predictive accuracy. © 2011 Society for Conservation Biology.

Publication Date

4-1-2012

Publication Title

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volume

71

Issue

2

Number of Pages

298-311

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1097/NEN.0b013e31824d1df2

Socpus ID

84859029361 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84859029361

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