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Global Trends of Trait Matching in Avian Frugivory and Its Consequences for the Complementarity and Irreplaceability of Birds

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70078

T. Morán-López, M. S. Campagna, M. Schleuning, D. García, J. M. Morales

{"title":"Global Trends of Trait Matching in Avian Frugivory and Its Consequences for the Complementarity and Irreplaceability of Birds","authors":"T. Morán-López, M. S. Campagna, M. Schleuning, D. García, J. M. Morales","doi":"10.1111/ele.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>It is generally accepted that small birds cannot eat large fruits and that highly frugivorous species prefer lipid-poor ones (morphological and nutritional trait-matching). Yet, it is unclear if these rules operate globally and if their strength varies with latitude and on islands. This could have important functional implications for the degree of complementarity and irreplaceability of birds. We analyse avian frugivory in 59 communities across the globe and show that trait-matching is widespread. The strength of morphological trait-matching increased with latitude, and especially on islands, leading to high complementarity between large and small birds. However, whether this resulted in irreplaceability depended on the range of fruit sizes available in the community. Nutritional trait-matching was also common, but did not lead to complementarity or irreplaceability because birds with contrasting diets did not show opposite responses to lipid-poor fruits. We show that trait-matching is pervasive, but its functional consequences are complex.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70087

Jingdi Li, Cameron A. Smith, Jinlin Chen, Kieran A. Bates, Kayla C. King

{"title":"Warming During Different Life Stages has Distinct Impacts on Host Resistance Ecology and Evolution","authors":"Jingdi Li, Cameron A. Smith, Jinlin Chen, Kieran A. Bates, Kayla C. King","doi":"10.1111/ele.70087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70087","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Climate change is increasing extreme heating events and the potential for disease outbreaks. Whether hosts can adapt to infection with rising temperatures is important for forecasting species persistence. We tested whether warming—at different host life stages—affects the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of resistance in <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> infected by a wild bacterial pathogen. We competed resistant and susceptible genotypes across 10 passages and tracked the spread of resistance in the population. Infection and prolonged warming strongly selected for the resistant genotype. Warming during host development induced plastic defences against infection, reducing the selective pressure for costly genetic-based resistance. Resistance was lost under ambient temperatures and periodic warming. Selection for resistance was likely weakened at ambient temperatures by the dilution effect, whereby the resistant genotype reduced pathogen transmission. Evolutionary dynamics of resistance depend on the balance among pathogen virulence, costs of genetic-based resistance, the dilution effect and plastic defences induced by temperature stress.</p>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70087","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Global Variation in Zooplankton Niche Divergence Across Ocean Basins

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70089

Niall McGinty, Andrew Irwin

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A Mechanistic Approach to Animal Dispersal—Quantifying Energetics and Maximum Distances

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-20 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70085

Caitlin Wilkinson, Ulrich Brose, Alexander Dyer, Myriam R. Hirt, Remo Ryser

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What Is a Specialist? Quantifying Host Breadth Enables Impact Prediction for Invasive Herbivores

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70083

Ashley N. Schulz, Nathan P. Havill, Travis D. Marsico, Matthew P. Ayres, Kamal J.K. Gandhi, Daniel A. Herms, Angela M. Hoover, Ruth A. Hufbauer, Andrew M. Liebhold, Kenneth F. Raffa, Kathryn A. Thomas, Patrick C. Tobin, Daniel R. Uden, Angela M. Mech

{"title":"What Is a Specialist? Quantifying Host Breadth Enables Impact Prediction for Invasive Herbivores","authors":"Ashley N. Schulz, Nathan P. Havill, Travis D. Marsico, Matthew P. Ayres, Kamal J.K. Gandhi, Daniel A. Herms, Angela M. Hoover, Ruth A. Hufbauer, Andrew M. Liebhold, Kenneth F. Raffa, Kathryn A. Thomas, Patrick C. Tobin, Daniel R. Uden, Angela M. Mech","doi":"10.1111/ele.70083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70083","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Herbivores are commonly classified as host specialists or generalists for various purposes, yet the definitions of these terms, and their intermediates, are often imprecise and ambiguous. We quantified host breadth for 240 non-native, tree-feeding insects in North America using phylogenetic diversity. We demonstrated that a partitioning of host breadth: (1) causes 67% of non-native insects to shift from a generalist to specialist category, (2) displays a reduction in host breadth from the native to introduced range, (3) identifies an inflection point in a model predicting the likelihood of non-native insect ecological impact, with a corresponding change in behaviour associated with specialists versus generalists, and (4) enables three models for strong prediction of whether a non-native forest insect will cause high impacts. Together, these results highlight the primacy of how herbivore host recognition and plant defences mediate whether novel host interactions will result in high impact after invasion.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143439047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Urban Environments Promote Adaptation to Multiple Stressors

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70074

Elizabeta Briski, Louisa Langrehr, Syrmalenia G. Kotronaki, Alena Sidow, Cindy Giselle Martinez Reyes, Antonios Geropoulos, Gregor Steffen, Nora Theurich, James W. E. Dickey, Jasmin C. Hütt, Phillip J. Haubrock, Ismael Soto, Antonín Kouba, Ross N. Cuthbert

{"title":"Urban Environments Promote Adaptation to Multiple Stressors","authors":"Elizabeta Briski, Louisa Langrehr, Syrmalenia G. Kotronaki, Alena Sidow, Cindy Giselle Martinez Reyes, Antonios Geropoulos, Gregor Steffen, Nora Theurich, James W. E. Dickey, Jasmin C. Hütt, Phillip J. Haubrock, Ismael Soto, Antonín Kouba, Ross N. Cuthbert","doi":"10.1111/ele.70074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70074","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Anthropogenic activities have drastically changed environmental conditions worldwide, negatively impacting biodiversity and ecosystem services. At the same time, the majority of the human population lives in urban areas that are greatly altered from natural habitats. Nevertheless, many species thrive in these urban environments. To improve our knowledge of evolution and adaptation in these anthropogenically impacted habitats, we conducted the widest series of stress experiments to date with three marine taxa: one mussel and two gammarid species. We compared intraspecific populations from protected and human-altered habitats to determine their tolerance to salinity, temperature and partial pressure of CO<sub>2</sub> in water (pCO<sub>2</sub>) regimes. Populations from impacted habitats typically outperformed protected habitat populations, with individuals from the most impacted habitat being the most robust. We propose that urban populations are adapting to life in disturbed environments—this adaptation concurrently promotes more resilient rescue populations but potentially confers increased invasion risk from non-native species.</p>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Biodiversity Patterns Redefined in Environmental Space

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-19 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70008

Catherine H. Graham, Matheus Lima Araujo, Elisa Barreto, Christian S. Dambros, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Thiago F. Rangel, Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho

{"title":"Biodiversity Patterns Redefined in Environmental Space","authors":"Catherine H. Graham, Matheus Lima Araujo, Elisa Barreto, Christian S. Dambros, José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Thiago F. Rangel, Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho","doi":"10.1111/ele.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Ecological and evolutionary questions addressing diversity-environment relationships have been evaluated almost entirely in geographic space, yet most hypotheses are formulated in terms of environmental conditions. Recent examples evaluating macroecological patterns directly in environmental space suggest that such refocusing provides different perspectives on the mechanisms driving broad-scale patterns of diversity. Yet, we lack both conceptual frameworks and targeted studies to fully evaluate the potential contribution of such a refocus. Here, we focus on the concept of environmental space by briefly reviewing its use in ecology and evolution and suggesting avenues for further development. We encourage a re-evaluation of hypotheses and frameworks that have dominated ecological theory since the foundations of ecology with a very simple shift in the lens, that is, from geographical to environmental space. Focusing on environmental space also provides a crucial lens for climate change research, enabling a comprehensive evaluation of biodiversity dynamics and offering a holistic view of the interplay between species and their evolving environments. This shift enhances our ability to predict and adapt to future changes, enriching our understanding of biodiversity beyond more commonly done geographic analyses.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70080

Victor Van der Meersch, Edward Armstrong, Florent Mouillot, Anne Duputié, Hendrik Davi, Frédérik Saltré, Isabelle Chuine

{"title":"Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change","authors":"Victor Van der Meersch, Edward Armstrong, Florent Mouillot, Anne Duputié, Hendrik Davi, Frédérik Saltré, Isabelle Chuine","doi":"10.1111/ele.70080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70080","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The recent acceleration of global climate warming has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions, widely used by natural resource managers. Such projections have been mainly produced by species distribution models with little information on their performances in novel climates. Here, we hindcast the range shifts of forest tree species across Europe over the last 12,000 years to compare the reliability of three different types of models. We show that in the most climatically dissimilar conditions, process-explicit models (PEMs) tend to outperform correlative species distribution models (CSDMs), and that PEM projections are likely to be more reliable than those made with CSDMs by the end of the 21st century. These results demonstrate for the first time the often promoted albeit so far untested idea that explicit description of mechanisms confers model robustness, and highlight a new avenue to increase model projection reliability in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70080","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143439101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Integrating Network and Meta-Ecosystem Models for Developing a Zoogeochemical Theory

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70076

Shawn J. Leroux, Oswald J. Schmitz

{"title":"Integrating Network and Meta-Ecosystem Models for Developing a Zoogeochemical Theory","authors":"Shawn J. Leroux, Oswald J. Schmitz","doi":"10.1111/ele.70076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70076","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Human activities have caused significant changes in animal abundance, interactions, movement and diversity at multiple scales. Growing empirical evidence reveals the myriad ways that these changes can alter the control that animals exert over biogeochemical cycling. Yet a theoretical framework to coherently integrate animal abundance, interactions, movement and diversity to predict when and how animal controls over biogeochemical cycling (i.e., zoogeochemistry) change is currently lacking. We present such a general framework that provides guidance on linking mathematical models of species interaction and diversity (network theory) and movement of organisms and non-living materials (meta-ecosystem theory) to account for biotic and abiotic feedback by which animals control biogeochemical cycling. We illustrate how to apply the framework to develop predictive models for specific ecosystem contexts using a case study of a primary producer–herbivore bipartite trait network in a boreal forest ecosystem. We further discuss key priorities for enhancing model development, data–model integration and application. The framework offers an important step to enhance empirical research that can better inform and justify broader conservation efforts aimed at conserving and restoring animal populations, their movement and critical functional roles in support of ecosystem services and nature-based climate solutions.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":161,"journal":{"name":"Ecology Letters","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ele.70076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143431735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Local Adaptation Is Highest in Populations With Stable Long-Term Growth

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Ecology Letters Pub Date : 2025-02-18 DOI: 10.1111/ele.70071

Lauren N. Carley, Monica A. Geber, William F. Morris, Vincent M. Eckhart, David A. Moeller

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