Ecological constraints and trait conservatism drive functional and phylogenetic structure of amphibian larvae communities in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

IF 1.6 4区 环境科学与生态学 Q3 ECOLOGY
Austral Ecology Pub Date : 2024-09-03 DOI:10.1111/aec.13580
Thiago A. Leão-Pires, Amom M. Luiz, Ricardo J. Sawaya
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Ecologists strive to untangle the complex interplay of current and historical factors, along with evolutionary history of species, to understand communities’ structure. However, this can be achieved by integrating different approaches to expanding our knowledge about the underlying processes connecting assemble rules of ecological communities. In order to better understand how ecological and/or evolutionary factors may affect the structure of communities, we assessed the phylogenetic and functional structure of 33 tadpole communities in the Atlantic Forest Southeastern Brazil and tested whether phylogenetic conservatism drives tadpole traits. We identified 19 communities which were significantly phylogenetic clustered and 10 which were significantly functional clustered. Trait diversity was skewed towards the root, indicating phylogenetic trait conservatism as an important driver of the structure of tadpole communities. The best explanatory model of the phylogenetic diversity included, in order of importance, presence of potential fish predators, water conductivity, external diversity of vegetation structure, canopy cover, internal diversity of vegetation structure and dissolved oxygen. Most variables were negatively correlated with phylogenetic diversity, but the presence of potential fish predators was positively correlated. For functional structure, external diversity of vegetation structure, canopy cover, area, dissolved oxygen and presence of potential fish predators were selected as the best explanatory model (presented in order of importance). Furthermore, of the 10 functionally structured communities, eight were also phylogenetically structured. In this sense, environmental variables could be filtering tadpole lineages interacting with phylogenetically conserved species traits, thus driving anura tadpole species’ occurrence on communities. Our study provides evidence that anuran communities structure results from interacting ecological and evolutionary processes.

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巴西大西洋森林两栖动物幼虫群落的功能和系统发育结构受生态制约和性状保守的影响
生态学家努力解开当前和历史因素以及物种进化史之间复杂的相互作用,以了解群落结构。然而,这可以通过整合不同的方法来实现,以扩大我们对连接生态群落组合规则的基本过程的了解。为了更好地了解生态和/或进化因素如何影响群落结构,我们评估了巴西东南部大西洋森林中33个蝌蚪群落的系统发育和功能结构,并检验了系统发育保守性是否驱动蝌蚪的性状。我们发现有 19 个群落具有明显的系统发育聚类,10 个群落具有明显的功能聚类。性状多样性向根部倾斜,表明系统发育性状保守性是蝌蚪群落结构的重要驱动因素。系统发育多样性的最佳解释模型依次包括潜在鱼类捕食者的存在、水的导电性、植被结构的外部多样性、冠层覆盖率、植被结构的内部多样性和溶解氧。大多数变量与系统发育多样性呈负相关,但潜在鱼类捕食者的存在与系统发育多样性呈正相关。在功能结构方面,植被结构的外部多样性、冠层覆盖率、面积、溶解氧和潜在鱼类捕食者的存在被选为最佳解释模型(按重要程度排序)。此外,在 10 个功能结构群落中,有 8 个也具有系统发育结构。从这个意义上说,环境变量可能是蝌蚪品系与系统发育上保守的物种特征相互作用的筛选因素,从而推动了蝾螈物种在群落中的出现。我们的研究提供了证据,证明蝾螈群落结构是生态和进化过程相互作用的结果。
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Austral Ecology
Austral Ecology 环境科学-生态学
CiteScore
2.90
自引率
6.70%
发文量
117
审稿时长
12-24 weeks
期刊介绍: Austral Ecology is the premier journal for basic and applied ecology in the Southern Hemisphere. As the official Journal of The Ecological Society of Australia (ESA), Austral Ecology addresses the commonality between ecosystems in Australia and many parts of southern Africa, South America, New Zealand and Oceania. For example many species in the unique biotas of these regions share common Gondwana ancestors. ESA''s aim is to publish innovative research to encourage the sharing of information and experiences that enrich the understanding of the ecology of the Southern Hemisphere. Austral Ecology involves an editorial board with representatives from Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Brazil and Argentina. These representatives provide expert opinions, access to qualified reviewers and act as a focus for attracting a wide range of contributions from countries across the region. Austral Ecology publishes original papers describing experimental, observational or theoretical studies on terrestrial, marine or freshwater systems, which are considered without taxonomic bias. Special thematic issues are published regularly, including symposia on the ecology of estuaries and soft sediment habitats, freshwater systems and coral reef fish.
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