CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 27Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesOrthoptera Research and TaxonomyInsect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

Long-term dynamics of tropical walking sticks in response to multiple large-scale and intense disturbances

Willig, Michael R., Presley, Steven J., Bloch, Christopher P.·2011·Oecologia
DOI 10.1007/s00442-010-1737-7
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Understanding the effects of disturbance and secondary succession on spatio-temporal patterns in the abundance of species is stymied by a lack of long-term demographic data, especially in response to infrequent and high intensity disturbances, such as hurricanes. Moreover, resistance and resilience to hurricane-induced disturbance may be mediated by legacies of previous land use, although such interactive effects are poorly understood, especially in tropical environments. We address these central issues in disturbance ecology by analyzing an extensive dataset, spanning the impacts of Hurricanes Hugo and Georges, on the abundance of a Neotropical walking stick, Lamponius portoricensis, in tabonuco rainforest of Puerto Rico during the wet and dry seasons from 1991 to 2007. By synthesizing data from two proximate sites in tabonuco forest, we show that resistance to Hurricane Hugo (97% reduction in abundance) was much less than resistance to Hurricane Georges (21% reduction in abundance). Based on a powerful statistical approach (generalized linear mixed-effects models with Poisson error terms), we documented that the temporal trajectories of abundance during secondary succession (i.e., patterns of resilience) differed between hurricanes and among historical land use categories, but that the effects of hurricanes and land use histories were independent of each other. These complex results likely arise because of differences in the intensities of the two hurricanes with respect to microclimatic effects (temperature and moisture) in the forest understory, as well as to time-lags in the response of L. portoricensis to changes in the abundance and distribution of preferred food plants (Piper) in post-hurricane environments.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1007/s00442-010-1737-7

Cites

63 of 63 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Quasi-Poisson regressions of walking stick abundance against time and against MnMaxT during the census periods were both negative and significant.

    “Employing Willig et al.’s (24) census data, we also conducted quasi-Poisson regressions of walking stick abundance against time and against MnMaxT during the census periods (Fig. 5 C and D). Both regressions were negative and significant.”

    From Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web (2018) · cites this paper as [24]

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Willig, M. R., Presley, S. J., & Bloch, C. P.
Affiliations
  • University of Connecticut (US)
  • Bridgewater State University (US)
Corresponding author
Willig, Michael R.
ORCID
Venue
Oecologia
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2010-07-31
Volume
165
Issue
2
Pages
357-368
ISSN
  • 0029-8549 (ISSN-L)
  • 1432-1939
DOI
10.1007/s00442-010-1737-7
OpenAlex
W2001306344
Cited by
27
References
63
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
FWCI
0.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Oecologia (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Journal of international women's studies (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • Texas Tech University
  • Directorate for Biological Sciences
  • U.S. Forest Service
  • International Institute of Tropical Forestry
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
Keywords
Hurricane Hugo, Hurricane Georges, hurricane disturbance, secondary succession, resistance and resilience, land use history, population dynamics, microclimate
MeSH terms
Animals, Humidity, Insecta, Puerto Rico, Rain, Species Specificity, Temperature, Time Factors, Trees, Ecosystem, Piper, Cyclonic Storms

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review