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{"title":"Interspecific Variations in Interplant Communication and Ecological Characteristics in Trees","authors":"Akira Yamawo,&nbsp;Tomika Hagiwara,&nbsp;Satomi Yoshida,&nbsp;Misuzu Ohno,&nbsp;Riku Nakajima,&nbsp;Yusuke Mori,&nbsp;Tamayo Hayashi,&nbsp;Hiroki Yamagishi,&nbsp;Kaori Shiojiri","doi":"10.1002/ece3.70876","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ece3.70876","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Plants evolve diverse communication systems in adapting to complex and variable environments. Here, we examined the relationship between plant architecture, population density and inter-plant communication within tree species. We tested the hypothesis that trees of species with complex architecture or high population density (high population density: HPD) communicate among conspecifics via volatiles. In addition, we hypothesize that states of mycorrhizal symbiosis (arbuscular mycorrhizal or ectomycorrhiza) which relation to population density can predict the development of interplant communication in trees. We tested induced defense as an indicator of communication in saplings of nine tree species with various complexities of architecture (number of leaves per shoot) and either low (low population density: LPD) or HPD, either exposed for 10 days to volatiles from a damaged conspecific or not exposed. We evaluated the number of insect-damaged leaves and the area of leaf damage on these trees after 1 and 2 months in the field. Most exposed HPD trees had less leaf damage than controls. However, LPD trees did not differ in leaf damage between treatments. These results are partially supported by plant hormone analysis. In addition, the presence of inter-plant communication was positively correlated with both the number of leaves per shoot (complexity of plant architecture) and population density. The analysis which combined results of previous studies suggests that states of mycorrhizal symbiosis predict the development of interplant communication; interplant communication is common in ectomycorrhiza species. These results suggest the importance of plant architecture and population density as well as state of mycorrhizal symbiosis in the development of interplant communications within tree species.</p>","PeriodicalId":11467,"journal":{"name":"Ecology and Evolution","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11739611/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143002098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unraveling Biogeographic Boundaries Within the Sierra Madre Oriental, México: An Endemicity Analysis Using a Taxonomically Diverse Dataset","authors":"Irene Goyenechea Mayer-Goyenechea,&nbsp;Gustavo Montiel-Canales,&nbsp;Juan Márquez,&nbsp;Claudia T. Hornung-Leoni,&nbsp;Jesús M. Castillo-Cerón,&nbsp;Norma L. Manríquez-Morán","doi":"10.1002/ece3.70779","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ece3.70779","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Sierra Madre Oriental (SMO) is a significant mountain range and one of Mexico's 14 biogeographical provinces. Its delimitation has been debated. This study aims to analyze the distribution of plants, beetles, odonates, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals using an endemicity analysis to identify endemism areas and confirm the SMO's biogeographical units. Georeferenced data for 326 species distributed in the Sierra Madre Oriental were compiled using QGIS software, and an endemicity analysis (EA) was carried out with NDM-VNDM to evaluate taxon distribution congruence in predefined grids. Different grid sizes and specific parameters were used to identify areas of endemism, with an Endemicity Index (EI) assigned to measure the consistency of these areas. Six main areas of endemism (EA) were identified: two in the northern region and four in the southern region of the SMO. These areas are supported by several taxa, except mammals, which did not significantly contribute to the identified AEs. The study suggests new boundaries within the SMO, establishing the Rio Verde as the natural barrier in the north rather than the Moctezuma River. The multi-taxonomic analysis supports dividing the SMO into two subprovinces, proposing a new delimitation based on the distribution of species with different dispersal capacities. This new regionalization can be useful for prioritizing conservation areas and designing more effective strategies. Future research should include more distribution data of mammals and birds to strengthen these results and better define the subprovinces and biogeographical districts of the SMO.</p>","PeriodicalId":11467,"journal":{"name":"Ecology and Evolution","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11739711/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143002179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecological Drivers of Molt-Breeding Overlap, an Unusual Life-History Strategy of Small-Island Birds?","authors":"Christopher C. De Ruyck,&nbsp;Nicola Koper","doi":"10.1002/ece3.70607","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ece3.70607","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Terrestrial bird populations on small, species depauperate islands often experience selection for generalist foraging traits via ecological release; however, it is unclear how island conditions may uniquely influence other life-history characteristics of small-island birds, such as the unusually high rates of molt-breeding overlap exhibited on the island of Grenada. To explore this question, we collected data on the life cycles and diets of 10 commonly occurring Grenadian bird species to assess the degree of generalist foraging and evaluate how seasonal patterns in diet niche breadth and diet overlap among species relates to the high rates of molt-breeding overlap. We evaluated three hypotheses explaining drivers of molt-breeding overlap (constraints on molt rate, unpredictable food abundance, and limited duration of food abundance), and suggest that widespread overlap in small-island tropical communities may be the result of generalist foraging adaptations and restricted time periods of sufficient invertebrate availability for successful breeding and molt to occur. We found that these species typically exhibited low breeding period seasonality followed by synchronized peaks in molt intensity and molt-breeding overlap during peak rainfall and high invertebrate abundance. There was also greater diet overlap and wider niche widths of invertebrate resources in the wet season when molt-breeding overlap occurred, and greater niche partitioning of invertebrate items among species in the dry season suggesting that competitive interactions for invertebrates were stronger in the dry season. Birds also shared more plant food sources in the dry season when invertebrate abundance is low, though seasonal differences in plant diet diversity and niche width varied by species. These results provide evidence that scarce invertebrate resources and competition likely limit productivity and molt/self-maintenance in these island-adapted, species-depauperate communities, and drive high rates of molt-breeding overlap, a relatively uncommon life-history strategy.</p>","PeriodicalId":11467,"journal":{"name":"Ecology and Evolution","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11738649/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143002044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Prediction of Current and Future Distributions of Chalcophora detrita (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) Under Climate Change Scenarios","authors":"Arif Duyar,&nbsp;Muhammed Arif Demir,&nbsp;Mahmut Kabalak","doi":"10.1002/ece3.70693","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ece3.70693","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The consequences of climate change, accelerated by anthropogenic activities, have different effects on different ecosystems, and the severity of these effects is predicted to increase in the near future. The number of studies investigating how forest ecosystems respond to these changes is increasing. However, there remains a significant gap in research concerning how saproxylic organisms—one of the key contributors to the healthy functioning of these fragile ecosystems—will respond to the consequences of climate change. In our study, we estimated the suitable habitats of the polymorphic species <i>Chalcophora detrita</i> which is distributed across Italy, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Türkiye, Cyprus, Syria, Israel and Lebanon. This species of both saproxylic and economic importance, was modelled under current environmental conditions, climate change scenarios and possible future conditions by ecological niche modelling (ENM). An ensemble model was created by using 11 different algorithms (Artificial Neural Network, Classification Tree Analysis, eXtreme Gradient Boosting, Flexible Discriminant Analysis, Generalised Additive Model, Generalised Boosting Model, Generalised Linear Model, Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines, Maximum Entropy, Random Forest, Surface Range Envelope) to predict the potential suitable habitats of <i>C. detrita</i>. Two different future scenarios (SSP2-4.5, relatively optimistic and SSP5-8.5, most pessimistic) are divided into 2021–2040, 2041–2060, 2061–2080 and 2081–2100 time periods. The results of our ENM indicated that bioclimatic variables contribute more than topographic and land cover variables to suitable habitats for the species under current conditions. Furthermore, future scenarios demonstrated that suitable habitats for this species will gradually decrease across the geographical region where the species is distributed. This study provides a theoretical reference framework for the conservation of habitats and the improvement of management plans for species belonging to the genus <i>Chalcophora</i> Dejean 1833 and the other saproxylic beetles.</p>","PeriodicalId":11467,"journal":{"name":"Ecology and Evolution","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11739133/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143001724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Initial Stand Volume and Residual Live Trees Drive Deadwood Carbon Stocks in Fire and Harvest Disturbed Boreal Forests at North-Central Alberta","authors":"Richard Osei,&nbsp;Charles A. Nock","doi":"10.1002/ece3.70710","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ece3.70710","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Retention forestry involves leaving single or groups of unharvested trees within harvest areas. Patch retention, which resembles structures such as unburned patches remaining after wildfire, is one practice implemented within the framework of Ecosystem-based Forest Management (EBM), which seeks to use natural forests as a model and minimize differences in natural and managed forests. Despite the widespread adoption of patch retention practices, few comparisons of the attributes of postfire and postharvest islands, or their drivers, have been made. Given the importance of deadwood in forests to a variety of ecosystem functions, we sought to compare the local bioenvironmental drivers of deadwood (snags, CWD) C stocks in islands remnants in postfire and postharvest forests a decade after disturbance. We also determined whether their relative effects are consistent across deadwood types (snags, CWD) and disturbance regimes using generalized additive mixed models with study site as random factor in all cases. A candidate model with initial stand volume (ISV), basal area of live trees, and size heterogeneity of live trees best predicted snag and CWD C stocks in both disturbance types, but their relative importance was inconsistent. The ISV had significantly (<i>p</i> &lt; 0.05) positive effects on C stocks in snags and CWD across disturbance types, but its relative effects was higher in retention islands than fire islands. In all cases, stand density of remnant live trees was negatively related to deadwood C stocks. Conversely, the size heterogeneity of remnant live trees significantly boosted deadwood C stocks in fire islands but not in harvest islands. The results imply consideration for the stocking level of candidate forest areas for retention patches as this drives the evolution of deadwood accumulation in the postharvest islands.</p>","PeriodicalId":11467,"journal":{"name":"Ecology and Evolution","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11738640/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143002095","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Late Orchid Catches the Bee: Frost Damage and Pollination Success in the Face of Global Warming in a European Terrestrial Orchid","authors":"Florian P. Schiestl,&nbsp;Beat A. Wartmann,&nbsp;Ruth Bänziger,&nbsp;Brigitte Györög-Kobi,&nbsp;Klaus Hess,&nbsp;Jürg Luder,&nbsp;Edith Merz,&nbsp;Beat Peter,&nbsp;Max Reutlinger,&nbsp;Tobias Richter,&nbsp;Heinz Senn,&nbsp;Thomas Ulrich,&nbsp;Beate Waldeck,&nbsp;Claudia Wartmann,&nbsp;Roland Wüest,&nbsp;Walter Wüest,&nbsp;Quint Rusman","doi":"10.1002/ece3.70729","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ece3.70729","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Global warming changes flowering times of many plant species, with potential impacts on frost damage and their synchronization with pollinator activity. These effects can have severe impacts on plant fitness, yet we know little about how frequently they occur and the extent of damage they cause. We addressed this topic in a thermophilic orchid with a highly specific pollination mechanism, the Small Spider Orchid, <i>Ophrys araneola</i> RchB, in six populations in Northern Switzerland. We measured flowering time, frost damage, and fruiting success in 1250 individually marked plants during 3 years, and documented spring temperatures. Using regression models with historical climate data, we estimated past and future frost damage. In addition, we analyzed historical records of the orchid and its only verified pollinator, the solitary bee <i>Andrena combinata</i> in Northern Switzerland, to estimate potential desynchronization between flowering and pollinator activity due to climate change. Increased spring temperatures accelerated flowering time, and together with the number of frost days explained frost damage well. Frost damage was severe and early-flowering plants were more likely to be damaged. Historical climate data suggested frost damage has increased in the last decades and may increase further in the future. All populations but one had very low fruit set, and plants that flowered earlier were less likely to set fruit. The historical data from between 1970 and 2019 showed a significant advance of flowering- and pollinator occurrence time in the last decades, but to a similar degree in orchids and bees. Our study shows that the orchid, despite being limited to warm habitats in central Europe, suffers under global warming by increased frost damage caused by earlier flowering. We did not detect an effect of accelerated flowering on desynchronization in flowering time and pollinator activity in this orchid species.</p>","PeriodicalId":11467,"journal":{"name":"Ecology and Evolution","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11739451/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143002114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contrasting Seasonal Distribution Patterns of Two Boreal Aerial Hawking Bat Species in Finland","authors":"Piia Lundberg,&nbsp;Miika Kotila,&nbsp;Katarina Meramo,&nbsp;Kati M. Suominen,&nbsp;Miina Suutari,&nbsp;Tia-Marie Pietikäinen,&nbsp;Ville Vasko,&nbsp;Thomas M. Lilley","doi":"10.1002/ece3.70599","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ece3.70599","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change poses significant consequences for temperate bat species, potentially altering their distribution ranges and generating novel interactions among species sharing similar ecological niches. Recent observations suggest distribution range expansion in the Palearctic aerial hawking bat, <i>Pipistrellus nathusii</i>, prompting an investigation into its interaction with <i>Eptesicus nilssonii</i>, a northern Palearctic species overlapping with the previous in many ecological characteristics. This study examines the spatiotemporal variations between the two boreal bat species to form an evidence-based background onto which future research on, e.g., resource competition, can be built. A comprehensive community science project engaged over 470 participants from 45 high schools to collect acoustic data on bat echolocation calls across Finland, in northern Europe, during the summers of 2019–2020. Our modelling approach reveals distinct spatiotemporal patterns for each species. In early summer, <i>E. nilssonii</i> activity is concentrated in the southern region, whereas by late summer, observations are distributed across our study area, though predominantly in the south. This pattern suggests that <i>E. nilssonii</i> could exhibit post-breeding vagrant behaviour, an observation only recently evidenced in bats. Conversely, the activity of <i>P. nathusii</i> remains notably low throughout the season, with observations concentrated along the south coast during both early and late seasons, making it challenging to fully model its distribution. Despite initial expectations of overlap given their similar foraging behaviour and habitat preferences, the limited activity and coastal association of <i>P. nathusii</i> suggest low competitive interaction with <i>E. nilssonii</i>. These findings contribute to our understanding of bat spatial ecology amid changing environmental conditions, emphasising the necessity for ongoing monitoring to ascertain the long-term implications of shifting species distributions.</p>","PeriodicalId":11467,"journal":{"name":"Ecology and Evolution","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11738648/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143002021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Species Distribution Models Reveal Varying Degrees of Refugia From the Invasive Asian Needle Ant for Native Ants Versus Ant-Plant Seed Dispersal Mutualisms","authors":"Drew Kanes,&nbsp;Daniel Malagon,&nbsp;Ben Camper,&nbsp;Anna Hewitt,&nbsp;Simon Dunn,&nbsp;Eva Purcell,&nbsp;Sharon Bewick","doi":"10.1002/ece3.70750","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ece3.70750","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Asian Needle Ant, <i>Brachyponera chinensis</i> (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), has spread throughout a substantial portion of the southeastern United States where it has primarily been restricted to low elevations. We focused on the <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> invasion in Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP). Records in and near the park represent some of the highest elevation locations of <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> in North America. The goals of this study were to characterize the status of the <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> invasion in GSMNP, to assess the role that disturbance and human visitation play in <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> invasion within GSMNP, to identify the potential of <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> to spread into higher elevations in the park and the southern Appalachians and to determine the impact that this might have on native species, including keystone seed-dispersers within the <i>Aphaenogaster rudis</i> complex and their myrmecochorous plants. We surveyed GSMNP for <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> at 45 sites, including sites that were burned during the 2016 Gatlinburg fire, sites with high human visitation, and undisturbed sites. We then built species distribution models (SDMs) for <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> and some of the native species that <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> is most likely to impact. This allowed us to assess the potential for high-elevation refugia within the southern Appalachians. We did not find <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> at any undisturbed sites in GSMNP. We did find <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> at five high-visitation sites. Field findings were consistent with our SDMs, which suggested that GSMNP's unique precipitation regimes may act as a barrier to invasion. Unfortunately, SDMs indicated moderate suitability for <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> across a sizable proportion of the northern border of the park. This is a region where <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> may have disproportionate impacts on myrmecochorous plant species. Thus, although southern Appalachian precipitation and temperature regimes may provide a refuge from <i>B</i>. <i>chinensis</i> at high elevations, this will not protect all species likely to be impacted by this invasive ant.</p>","PeriodicalId":11467,"journal":{"name":"Ecology and Evolution","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11739460/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143002124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Study of Mitogenomes Provides Implications for the Phylogenetics and Evolution of the Infraorder Muscomorpha in Diptera","authors":"Huan Yuan,&nbsp;Wenbo Fu,&nbsp;Shulin He,&nbsp;Tingjing Li,&nbsp;Bin Chen","doi":"10.1002/ece3.70832","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ece3.70832","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Muscomorpha is one of the most species-rich brachyceran groups in Diptera, with many species serving as important disease vectors; however, its high-level phylogenetic relationships have long been controversial and unsolved. This study comparatively analyzed the characteristics of mitogenomes of 131 species that represent 18 superfamilies in Muscomorpha, in which mitogenomes of 16 species have been newly sequenced and annotated, demonstrating that their gene composition, order, AT bias, length variation, and codon usage are consistent with documented dipteran mitogenomes. The phylogenetic topologies demonstrated that the robustness of Muscomorpha and major clades within Muscomorpha are monophyletic: Cyclorrhapha, Schizophora, and Calyptratae. A clade of Empidoidea were recovered as the sister group to Cyclorrhapha. Within Cyclorrhapha, Platypezoidea and Syrphoidea were sequentially placed as basal groups of the Cyclorrhapha. The remaining cyclorrhaph superfamilies gathered as two main clades. Ephydroidea were, in most cases, placed as the sister group to Calyptratae. Within Calyptratae, Hippoboscoidea were sister to an assemblage of lineages composed of an Oestroid grade and Muscoidea. The Muscomorpha was proposed to originate in the early Jurassic, and the main clade diversified near the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, estimated using the MCMCtree and six fossil calibration points. The ancestral area of origin and geographic range of Muscomorpha was deduced to be the Palaearctic region with 56.9% probability using the RASP software based on a dated tree.</p>","PeriodicalId":11467,"journal":{"name":"Ecology and Evolution","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11739608/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143002130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Frugivore Traits Predict Plant–Frugivore Interactions Using Generalized Joint Attribute Modeling","authors":"Laurel R. Yohe,&nbsp;Leith B. Leiser-Miller,&nbsp;Zofia A. Kaliszewska,&nbsp;Susan R. Whitehead,&nbsp;Sharlene E. Santana,&nbsp;Liliana M. Dávalos","doi":"10.1002/ece3.70772","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ece3.70772","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Under an adaptive hypothesis, the reciprocal influence between mutualistic plants and frugivores is expected to result in suites of matching frugivore and plant traits that structure fruit consumption. Recent work has suggested fruit traits can represent adaptations to broad groups of functionally similar frugivores, but the role of frugivore traits and within-species variation in structuring fruit consumption is less understood. To address these knowledge gaps, we assess the presence of reciprocal trait matching for the mutualistic ecological network comprising of <i>Carollia</i> bats that feed on and disperse <i>Piper</i> seeds. We used generalized joint attribute modeling (GJAM), a Bayesian modeling approach that simultaneously accounts for multiple sources of variance across trait types. In support of frugivore adaptation to their dietary composition and suggesting niche partitioning among <i>Carollia</i> bats, we find differential consumption of a suite of <i>Piper</i> species influenced by bat traits such as body size; however, the <i>Piper</i> morphological traits considered had no effect on bat consumption. Slow evolutionary rates, dispersal by other vertebrates, and unexamined fruit traits, such as <i>Piper</i> chemical bouquets, may explain the lack of association between bat <i>Piper</i> consumption and fruit morphological traits. We have identified a potential asymmetric influence of frugivore traits on plant–frugivore interactions, providing a template for future trait analyses of plant–animal networks. As intraspecific trait variation is rarely included in studies on trait matching, this paper contributes to closing that important knowledge gap.</p>","PeriodicalId":11467,"journal":{"name":"Ecology and Evolution","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11739623/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143002084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}