Divergent ecological responses to typhoon disturbance revealed via landscape-scale acoustic monitoring

© 2023 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Veröffentlicht in:Global change biology. - 1999. - 30(2024), 1 vom: 04. Jan., Seite e17067
1. Verfasser: Ross, Samuel R P-J (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Friedman, Nicholas R, Dudley, Kenneth L, Yoshida, Takuma, Yoshimura, Masashi, Economo, Evan P, Armitage, David W, Donohue, Ian
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Global change biology
Schlagworte:Journal Article Okinawa acoustic indices disturbance ecology ecological stability extreme weather event passive acoustic monitoring sensor array soundscape
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Zusammenfassung:© 2023 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Climate change is increasing the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme weather events across the globe. Understanding the capacity for ecological communities to withstand and recover from such events is critical. Typhoons are extreme weather events that are expected to broadly homogenize ecological dynamics through structural damage to vegetation and longer-term effects of salinization. Given their unpredictable nature, monitoring ecological responses to typhoons is challenging, particularly for mobile animals such as birds. Here, we report spatially variable ecological responses to typhoons across terrestrial landscapes. Using a high temporal resolution passive acoustic monitoring network across 24 sites on the subtropical island of Okinawa, Japan, we found that typhoons elicit divergent ecological responses among Okinawa's diverse terrestrial habitats, as indicated by increased spatial variability of biological sound production (biophony) and individual species detections. This suggests that soniferous communities are capable of a diversity of different responses to typhoons. That is, spatial insurance effects among local ecological communities provide resilience to typhoons at the landscape scale. Even though site-level typhoon impacts on soundscapes and bird detections were not particularly strong, monitoring at scale with high temporal resolution across a broad spatial extent nevertheless enabled detection of spatial heterogeneity in typhoon responses. Further, species-level responses mirrored those of acoustic indices, underscoring the utility of such indices for revealing insight into fundamental questions concerning disturbance and stability. Our findings demonstrate the significant potential of landscape-scale acoustic sensor networks to capture the understudied ecological impacts of unpredictable extreme weather events
Beschreibung:Date Completed 29.01.2024
Date Revised 29.01.2024
published: Print
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1365-2486
DOI:10.1111/gcb.17067