DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.11.018
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84871872067
论文题名: Do dung fungal spores make a good proxy for past distribution of large herbivores?
作者: Baker A.G. ; Bhagwat S.A. ; Willis K.J.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2013
卷: 62 起始页码: 21
结束页码: 31
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Dung fungal spore
; Herbivory
; Non-pollen palynomorphs
; Palaeoecology
; Reference collection
; Sporormiella
Scopus关键词: Fungal spores
; Herbivory
; Palaeoecology
; Palynomorphs
; Reference collections
; Sporormiella
; Animals
; Ecosystems
; Fungi
; abundance
; fungus
; geographical variation
; herbivore
; meta-analysis
; population distribution
; spore
; taxonomy
; Bacteria (microorganisms)
; Fungi
; Preussia (ascomycete)
英文摘要: The importance of herbivory as a long-term driver of ecosystem change is a topic that has been hotly debated over the past few years. An understanding of the interaction between herbivores and ecosystems is particularly important for conservation policies aimed at re-wilding. Dung fungal spores have been highlighted as an important potential proxy to reconstruct large herbivore densities across past landscapes. However, this proxy appears to have been used and interpreted in a variety of ways in addition to highly variable taxonomic identification of dung fungal spores. Here we review studies that have utilised fungal spore assemblages to assess past herbivore presence and test the validity of this method. We aim to determine whether there is a set of identifiable dung fungal spores that can unequivocally track variation of large herbivore activity through time and across regions. Our meta-analysis identifies: (1) spore types that are commonly found to be indicative of large herbivores and their geographical ranges, (2) linkages between these spores and their biological origin, and (3) the most appropriate quantitative method to express their abundance for comparisons through time and across sites. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/60722
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作者单位: Long-Term Ecology Laboratory, Biodiversity Institute, Oxford Martin School, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom; School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, United Kingdom; Department of Biology, University of Bergen, N-5007 Bergen, Norway
Recommended Citation:
Baker A.G.,Bhagwat S.A.,Willis K.J.. Do dung fungal spores make a good proxy for past distribution of large herbivores?[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2013-01-01,62