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Flores-Moreno H, Yatsko AR, Cheesman AW, Allison SD, Cernusak LA, Cheney R, Clement RA, Cooper W, Eggleton P, Jensen R, Rosenfield M, Zanne AE. Shifts in internal stem damage along a tropical precipitation gradient and implications for forest biomass estimation. New Phytol 2024; 241:1047-1061. [PMID: 38087814 DOI: 10.1111/nph.19417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2023] [Accepted: 11/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024]
Abstract
Woody biomass is a large carbon store in terrestrial ecosystems. In calculating biomass, tree stems are assumed to be solid structures. However, decomposer agents such as microbes and insects target stem heartwood, causing internal wood decay which is poorly quantified. We investigated internal stem damage across five sites in tropical Australia along a precipitation gradient. We estimated the amount of internal aboveground biomass damaged in living trees and measured four potential stem damage predictors: wood density, stem diameter, annual precipitation, and termite pressure (measured as termite damage in downed deadwood). Stem damage increased with increasing diameter, wood density, and termite pressure and decreased with increasing precipitation. High wood density stems sustained less damage in wet sites and more damage in dry sites, likely a result of shifting decomposer communities and their differing responses to changes in tree species and wood traits across sites. Incorporating stem damage reduced aboveground biomass estimates by > 30% in Australian savannas, compared to only 3% in rainforests. Accurate estimates of carbon storage across woody plant communities are critical for understanding the global carbon budget. Future biomass estimates should consider stem damage in concert with the effects of changes in decomposer communities and abiotic conditions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Habacuc Flores-Moreno
- Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
- CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, GPO Box 2583, Brisbane, Qld, 4001, Australia
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- Biology Department, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33146, USA
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Qld, 4878, Australia
- Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QE, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
- Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, Qld, 4878, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
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- Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Cairns, Qld, 4878, Australia
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- Life Sciences Department, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK
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- Australian Wildlife Conservancy, Malanda, Qld, 4885, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20007, USA
- Biology Department, University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33146, USA
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Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Krah FS, Cornwell WK, Zanne AE, Abrego N, Anderson IC, Andrew CJ, Baldrian P, Bässler C, Bissett A, Chaudhary VB, Chen B, Chen Y, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Deveautour C, Egidi E, Flores-Moreno H, Golan J, Heilmann-Clausen J, Hempel S, Hu Y, Kauserud H, Kivlin SN, Kohout P, Lammel DR, Maestre FT, Pringle A, Purhonen J, Singh BK, Veresoglou SD, Větrovský T, Zhang H, Rillig MC, Powell JR. Symbiotic status alters fungal eco-evolutionary offspring trajectories. Ecol Lett 2023; 26:1523-1534. [PMID: 37330626 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2023] [Revised: 05/21/2023] [Accepted: 05/23/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
Abstract
Despite host-fungal symbiotic interactions being ubiquitous in all ecosystems, understanding how symbiosis has shaped the ecology and evolution of fungal spores that are involved in dispersal and colonization of their hosts has been ignored in life-history studies. We assembled a spore morphology database covering over 26,000 species of free-living to symbiotic fungi of plants, insects and humans and found more than eight orders of variation in spore size. Evolutionary transitions in symbiotic status correlated with shifts in spore size, but the strength of this effect varied widely among phyla. Symbiotic status explained more variation than climatic variables in the current distribution of spore sizes of plant-associated fungi at a global scale while the dispersal potential of their spores is more restricted compared to free-living fungi. Our work advances life-history theory by highlighting how the interaction between symbiosis and offspring morphology shapes the reproductive and dispersal strategies among living forms.
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- Carlos A Aguilar-Trigueros
- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, Finland
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Conservation Biology, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Center, School of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, Finland
- Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Biology Department, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Oberlin, Ohio, USA
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Conservation Biology, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Department of Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico. Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
- Unidad Asociada CSIC-UPO (BioFun). Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain
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- AGHYLE Research Unit, Institut Polytechnique UniLaSalle, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Departments of Botany and Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Key Laboratory of Agro-ecological Processes in Subtropical Region & Changsha Research Station for Agricultural and Environmental Monitoring, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hunan, China
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- Evogene, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio "Ramon Margalef", Universidad de Alicante, Carretera de San Vicente del Raspeig s/n, Alicante, Spain
- Departamento de Ecología, Universidad de Alicante, Carretera de San Vicente del Raspeig s/n, Alicante, Spain
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- Departments of Botany and Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, Finland
- Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, Finland
- School of Resource Wisdom, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, Finland
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
- Global Centre for Land Based Innovation, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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- Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha 4, Czech Republic
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
- College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding, China
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- Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), Berlin, Germany
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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Zanne AE, Flores-Moreno H, Powell JR, Cornwell WK, Dalling JW, Austin AT, Classen AT, Eggleton P, Okada KI, Parr CL, Adair EC, Adu-Bredu S, Alam MA, Alvarez-Garzón C, Apgaua D, Aragón R, Ardon M, Arndt SK, Ashton LA, Barber NA, Beauchêne J, Berg MP, Beringer J, Boer MM, Bonet JA, Bunney K, Burkhardt TJ, Carvalho D, Castillo-Figueroa D, Cernusak LA, Cheesman AW, Cirne-Silva TM, Cleverly JR, Cornelissen JHC, Curran TJ, D'Angioli AM, Dallstream C, Eisenhauer N, Evouna Ondo F, Fajardo A, Fernandez RD, Ferrer A, Fontes MAL, Galatowitsch ML, González G, Gottschall F, Grace PR, Granda E, Griffiths HM, Guerra Lara M, Hasegawa M, Hefting MM, Hinko-Najera N, Hutley LB, Jones J, Kahl A, Karan M, Keuskamp JA, Lardner T, Liddell M, Macfarlane C, Macinnis-Ng C, Mariano RF, Méndez MS, Meyer WS, Mori AS, Moura AS, Northwood M, Ogaya R, Oliveira RS, Orgiazzi A, Pardo J, Peguero G, Penuelas J, Perez LI, Posada JM, Prada CM, Přívětivý T, Prober SM, Prunier J, Quansah GW, Resco de Dios V, Richter R, Robertson MP, Rocha LF, Rúa MA, Sarmiento C, Silberstein RP, Silva MC, Siqueira FF, Stillwagon MG, Stol J, Taylor MK, Teste FP, Tng DYP, Tucker D, Türke M, Ulyshen MD, Valverde-Barrantes OJ, van den Berg E, van Logtestijn RSP, Veen GFC, Vogel JG, Wardlaw TJ, Wiehl G, Wirth C, Woods MJ, Zalamea PC. Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates. Science 2022; 377:1440-1444. [PMID: 36137034 DOI: 10.1126/science.abo3856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
Deadwood is a large global carbon store with its store size partially determined by biotic decay. Microbial wood decay rates are known to respond to changing temperature and precipitation. Termites are also important decomposers in the tropics but are less well studied. An understanding of their climate sensitivities is needed to estimate climate change effects on wood carbon pools. Using data from 133 sites spanning six continents, we found that termite wood discovery and consumption were highly sensitive to temperature (with decay increasing >6.8 times per 10°C increase in temperature)-even more so than microbes. Termite decay effects were greatest in tropical seasonal forests, tropical savannas, and subtropical deserts. With tropicalization (i.e., warming shifts to tropical climates), termite wood decay will likely increase as termites access more of Earth's surface.
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- Amy E Zanne
- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.,Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.,Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- The Soil Biodiversity Group, Entomology Department, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
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- Department of Northern Biosphere Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Abashiri, Japan
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.,Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.,School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Wits, South Africa
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- Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
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- Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services Division, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Kumasi Ashanti Region, Ghana.,Department of Natural Resources Management, CSIR College of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ashanti Region, Ghana
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- Department of Pest-management and Conservation, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- Departamento de Biología/Ecología/Laboratorio de Ecología Funcional y Ecosistémica, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá DC, Colombia
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- Centre for Rainforest Studies, The School for Field Studies, Yungaburra, QLD, Australia
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- Instituto de Ecología Regional, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán-CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina
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- Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA
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- UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane (EcoFoG), AgroParisTech, CNRS, INRA, Universite des Antilles, Universite de Guyane, CIRAD, Kourou, France
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- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Amsterdam Institute of Life and Environment, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.,Community and Conservation Ecology, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, Australia
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- Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
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- Biology Department/Faculty of Natural Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia.,Biology Department/Faculty of Natural Sciences/Functional and Ecosystem Ecology Lab, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment (A-LIFE), Systems Ecology Section, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Pest-management and Conservation, Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand
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- Programa de pós-graduação em Ecologia, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Experimental Interaction Ecology, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Instituto de Investigación Interdisciplinaria (I3), Vicerrectoría Académica, Universidad de Talca, Talca, Chile
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- Instituto de Ecología Regional, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán-CONICET, Tucumán, Argentina
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
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- International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Río Piedras, PR, USA
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig, Germany
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Environmental System Science/Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University, Kyotanabe, Japan
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- Department of Biology/Faculty of Science/Ecology and Biodiversity, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Faculty of Science/School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Creswick, VIC, Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia.,Ecosystem Processes, TERN (Australian Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network), Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- Biont Research, Utrecht, Netherlands.,Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Environmental Biology, Department of Biology, Science Faculty, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- School of Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- School of Biological Sciences, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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- Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia
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- Global Ecology Unit, CREAF-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Department of Biology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canadá
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- Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Global Ecology Unit, CSIC, Bellaterra Barcelona, Spain.,Global Ecology Unit, CREAF, Cerdanyola del Valles Barcelona, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Biology Department/Functional and Ecosystem Ecology Lab, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota DC, Colombia
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Forest Ecology, Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening, Brno, Czechia
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- Land and Water, CSIRO, Wembley, WA, Australia.,School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- UMR ECOFOG/Laboratoire des Sciences du Bois, CNRS, Kourou GF, France
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- Soil Analytical Services, Soil Testing Laboratory, CSIR-Soil Research Institute, Kumasi Ashanti Region, Ghana
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- Department of Crop and Forest Sciences, University of Lleida, Lérida, Spain.,School of Life Sciences and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, China
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- Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.,German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena- Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Departamento de Ciências Florestais, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama.,Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, WA, Australia.,Agriculture and Environment, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, Australia
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
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- Land and Water, CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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- Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA, USA.,Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
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- Instituto de Matemática Aplicada de San Luis (IMASL), CONICET, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, San Luis, Argentina
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- Centre for Rainforest Studies, The School for Field Studies, Yungaburra, QLD, Australia
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Experimental Interaction Ecology, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, International Center of Tropical Biodiversity, Institute of Environment, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
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- Departamento de Ecologia e Conservação, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Lavras, MG, Brazil
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- Department of Terrestrial Ecology, NIOO-KNAW, Wageningen, Netherlands
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- School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Land and Water, CSIRO, Wembley, WA, Australia
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- Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.,German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena- Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
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- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama.,Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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Clement RA, Flores-Moreno H, Cernusak LA, Cheesman AW, Yatsko AR, Allison SD, Eggleton P, Zanne AE. Assessing the Australian Termite Diversity Anomaly: How Habitat and Rainfall Affect Termite Assemblages. Front Ecol Evol 2021. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.657444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Termites are important ecosystem engineers in tropical habitats, with different feeding groups able to decompose wood, grass, litter, and soil organic matter. In most tropical regions, termite abundance and species diversity are assumed to increase with rainfall, with highest levels found in rainforests. However, in the Australian tropics, this pattern is thought to be reversed, with lower species richness and termite abundance found in rainforest than drier habitats. The potential mechanisms underlying this pattern remain unclear. We compared termite assemblages (abundance, activity, diversity, and feeding group composition) across five sites along a precipitation gradient (ranging from ∼800 to 4,000 mm annual rainfall), spanning dry and wet savanna habitats, wet sclerophyll, and lowland and upland rainforests in tropical North Queensland. Moving from dry to wet habitats, we observed dramatic decreases in termite abundance in both mounds and dead wood occupancy, with greater abundance and activity at savanna sites (low precipitation) compared with rainforest or sclerophyll sites (high precipitation). We also observed a turnover in termite species and feeding group diversity across sites that were close together, but in different habitats. Termite species and feeding group richness were highest in savanna sites, with 13 termite species from wood-, litter-, grass-, dung-, and soil-feeding groups, while only five termite species were encountered in rainforest and wet sclerophyll sites—all wood feeders. These results suggest that the Australian termite diversity anomaly may be partly driven by how specific feeding groups colonized habitats across Australia. Consequently, termites in Australian rainforests may be less important in ecosystem processes, such as carbon and nutrient cycling during decomposition, compared with termites in other tropical rainforests.
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Dalrymple RL, Kemp DJ, Flores-Moreno H, Laffan SW, White TE, Hemmings FA, Moles AT. Macroecological patterns in flower colour are shaped by both biotic and abiotic factors. New Phytol 2020; 228:1972-1985. [PMID: 32533864 DOI: 10.1111/nph.16737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/24/2020] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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There is a wealth of research on the way interactions with pollinators shape flower traits. However, we have much more to learn about influences of the abiotic environment on flower colour. We combine quantitative flower colour data for 339 species from a broad spatial range covering tropical, temperate, arid, montane and coastal environments from 9.25ºS to 43.75ºS with 11 environmental variables to test hypotheses about how macroecological patterns in flower colouration relate to biotic and abiotic conditions. Both biotic community and abiotic conditions are important in explaining variation of flower colour traits on a broad scale. The diversity of pollinating insects and the plant community have the highest predictive power for flower colouration, followed by mean annual precipitation and solar radiation. On average, flower colours are more chromatic where there are fewer pollinators, solar radiation is high, precipitation and net primary production are low, and growing seasons are short, providing support for the hypothesis that higher chromatic contrast of flower colours may be related to stressful conditions. To fully understand the ecology and evolution of flower colour, we should incorporate the broad selective context that plants experience into research, rather than focusing primarily on effects of plant-pollinator interactions.
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- Rhiannon L Dalrymple
- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- John T. Waterhouse Herbarium, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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Zanne AE, Powell JR, Flores-Moreno H, Kiers ET, van 't Padje A, Cornwell WK. Finding fungal ecological strategies: Is recycling an option? FUNGAL ECOL 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2019.100902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Firn J, McGree JM, Harvey E, Flores-Moreno H, Schütz M, Buckley YM, Borer ET, Seabloom EW, La Pierre KJ, MacDougall AM, Prober SM, Stevens CJ, Sullivan LL, Porter E, Ladouceur E, Allen C, Moromizato KH, Morgan JW, Harpole WS, Hautier Y, Eisenhauer N, Wright JP, Adler PB, Arnillas CA, Bakker JD, Biederman L, Broadbent AAD, Brown CS, Bugalho MN, Caldeira MC, Cleland EE, Ebeling A, Fay PA, Hagenah N, Kleinhesselink AR, Mitchell R, Moore JL, Nogueira C, Peri PL, Roscher C, Smith MD, Wragg PD, Risch AC. Author Correction: Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs. Nat Ecol Evol 2020; 4:886-891. [PMID: 32415288 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-020-1213-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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- Jennifer Firn
- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia.
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- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
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- Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- School of Natural Sciences, Zoology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
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- Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Wildland Resources/Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.,School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michael Smith Building, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Centre for Applied Ecology (CEABN-InBIO), School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Grassland Soil and Water Research Laboratory, Temple, TX, USA
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- Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Department of Forestry, Agriculture and Water, National University-INTA-CONICET, Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.,Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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Zanne AE, Abarenkov K, Afkhami ME, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Bates S, Bhatnagar JM, Busby PE, Christian N, Cornwell WK, Crowther TW, Flores-Moreno H, Floudas D, Gazis R, Hibbett D, Kennedy P, Lindner DL, Maynard DS, Milo AM, Nilsson RH, Powell J, Schildhauer M, Schilling J, Treseder KK. Fungal functional ecology: bringing a trait-based approach to plant-associated fungi. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2019; 95:409-433. [PMID: 31763752 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2018] [Revised: 10/27/2019] [Accepted: 10/31/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
Fungi play many essential roles in ecosystems. They facilitate plant access to nutrients and water, serve as decay agents that cycle carbon and nutrients through the soil, water and atmosphere, and are major regulators of macro-organismal populations. Although technological advances are improving the detection and identification of fungi, there still exist key gaps in our ecological knowledge of this kingdom, especially related to function. Trait-based approaches have been instrumental in strengthening our understanding of plant functional ecology and, as such, provide excellent models for deepening our understanding of fungal functional ecology in ways that complement insights gained from traditional and -omics-based techniques. In this review, we synthesize current knowledge of fungal functional ecology, taxonomy and systematics and introduce a novel database of fungal functional traits (FunFun ). FunFun is built to interface with other databases to explore and predict how fungal functional diversity varies by taxonomy, guild, and other evolutionary or ecological grouping variables. To highlight how a quantitative trait-based approach can provide new insights, we describe multiple targeted examples and end by suggesting next steps in the rapidly growing field of fungal functional ecology.
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- Amy E Zanne
- Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, U.S.A
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- Natural History Museum, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, Tartu, 51014, Estonia
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- Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, U.S.A
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- Freie Universität-Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, 14195, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University Northwest, Westville, IN, 46391, U.S.A
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- Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97330, U.S.A
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- Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, U.S.A.,Department of Biology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40208, U.S.A
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- Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, and Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, U.S.A
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- Microbial Ecology Group, Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Plant Pathology, Tropical Research & Education Center, University of Florida, Homestead, FL, 33031, U.S.A
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- Biology Department, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 01610, U.S.A
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- Plant & Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, U.S.A
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- US Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Center for Forest Mycology Research, Madison, Wisconsin, WI, 53726, U.S.A
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- Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, U.S.A
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- University of Gothenburg, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Box 461, 405 30, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, 2751, Australia
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- National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101, U.S.A
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- Plant & Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, U.S.A
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, U.S.A
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See CR, Luke McCormack M, Hobbie SE, Flores-Moreno H, Silver WL, Kennedy PG. Global patterns in fine root decomposition: climate, chemistry, mycorrhizal association and woodiness. Ecol Lett 2019; 22:946-953. [PMID: 30891910 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13248] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Revised: 08/29/2018] [Accepted: 01/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Fine root decomposition constitutes a critical yet poorly understood flux of carbon and nutrients in terrestrial ecosystems. Here, we present the first large-scale synthesis of species trait effects on the early stages of fine root decomposition at both global and local scales. Based on decomposition rates for 279 plant species across 105 studies and 176 sites, we found that mycorrhizal association and woodiness are the best categorical traits for predicting rates of fine root decomposition. Consistent positive effects of nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and negative effects of lignin concentration emerged on decomposition rates within sites. Similar relationships were present across sites, along with positive effects of temperature and moisture. Calcium was not consistently related to decomposition rate at either scale. While the chemical drivers of fine root decomposition parallel those of leaf decomposition, our results indicate that the best plant functional groups for predicting fine root decomposition differ from those predicting leaf decomposition.
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- Craig R See
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.,Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, 60532, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.,Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA.,Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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Caplan JS, Meiners SJ, Flores-Moreno H, McCormack ML. Fine-root traits are linked to species dynamics in a successional plant community. Ecology 2019; 100:e02588. [PMID: 30580447 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2018] [Revised: 08/18/2018] [Accepted: 11/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Despite the importance of fine roots for the acquisition of soil resources such as nitrogen and water, the study of linkages between traits and both population and community dynamics remains focused on aboveground traits. We address this gap by investigating associations between belowground traits and metrics of species dynamics. Our analysis included 85 species from a long-term data set on the transition from old field to forest in eastern North America (the Buell-Small Succession Study) and the new Fine-Root Ecology Database. Given the prominent roles of life form (woody vs. non-woody) and species origin (native vs. exotic) in defining functional relationships, we also assessed whether traits or their relationships with species dynamics differed for these groups. Species that reached their peak abundance early in succession had fine-root traits corresponding to resource acquisitive strategies (i.e., they were thinner, less dense, and had higher nitrogen concentrations) while species that peaked progressively later had increasingly conservative strategies. In addition to having more acquisitive root traits than native species, exotics diverged from the above successional trend, having consistently thinner fine roots regardless of the community context. Species with more acquisitive fine-root morphologies typically had faster rates of abundance increase and achieved their maximal rates in fewer years. Decreasing soil nutrient availability and increasing belowground competition may become increasingly strong filters in successional communities, acting on root traits to promote a transition from acquisitive to conservative foraging. However, disturbances that increase light and soil resource availability at local scales may allow acquisitive species, especially invasive exotics, to continue colonizing late into the community transition to forest.
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- Joshua S Caplan
- Department of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture, Temple University, 580 Meetinghouse Road, Ambler, Pennsylvania, 19002, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Illinois University, 600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, Illinois, 61920, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior and Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1479 Gortner Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55108, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, 1479 Gortner Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55108, USA.,Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, 4100 Illinois Route 53, Lisle, Illinois, 60532, USA
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Flores-Moreno H, Reich PB, Lind EM, Sullivan LL, Seabloom EW, Yahdjian L, MacDougall AS, Reichmann LG, Alberti J, Báez S, Bakker JD, Cadotte MW, Caldeira MC, Chaneton EJ, D'Antonio CM, Fay PA, Firn J, Hagenah N, Harpole WS, Iribarne O, Kirkman KP, Knops JMH, La Pierre KJ, Laungani R, Leakey ADB, McCulley RL, Moore JL, Pascual J, Borer ET. Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2017; 371:rstb.2015.0273. [PMID: 27114575 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
Abstract
Ecosystem eutrophication often increases domination by non-natives and causes displacement of native taxa. However, variation in environmental conditions may affect the outcome of interactions between native and non-native taxa in environments where nutrient supply is elevated. We examined the interactive effects of eutrophication, climate variability and climate average conditions on the success of native and non-native plant species using experimental nutrient manipulations replicated at 32 grassland sites on four continents. We hypothesized that effects of nutrient addition would be greatest where climate was stable and benign, owing to reduced niche partitioning. We found that the abundance of non-native species increased with nutrient addition independent of climate; however, nutrient addition increased non-native species richness and decreased native species richness, with these effects dampened in warmer or wetter sites. Eutrophication also altered the time scale in which grassland invasion responded to climate, decreasing the importance of long-term climate and increasing that of annual climate. Thus, climatic conditions mediate the responses of native and non-native flora to nutrient enrichment. Our results suggest that the negative effect of nutrient addition on native abundance is decoupled from its effect on richness, and reduces the time scale of the links between climate and compositional change.
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- Habacuc Flores-Moreno
- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales 2751, Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- IFEVA-CONICET and Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1417 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1
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- USDA-ARS Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, Temple, TX, TX 76502, USA
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata 7600, Argentina
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- Consorcio para el Desarrollo Sostenible de la Ecoregión Andina (CONDESAN), Quito, Ecuador
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- School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto-Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1C 2M2
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- Centro de Estudos Florestais, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisbon, Portugal
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- IFEVA-CONICET and Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1417 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Environmental Studies Program, University of CA, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- USDA-ARS Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, Temple, TX, TX 76502, USA
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- School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia
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- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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- Department of Physiological Diversity, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research-UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Am Kirchtor 1, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata 7600, Argentina
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- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Plant Biology and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Plant and Soil Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40546-0091, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras (IIMyC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata 7600, Argentina
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- Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
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- Peter B Reich
- Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, 55108, USA
- Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia
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- Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, 55108, USA
- Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, 55108, USA
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Dalrymple RL, Hui FKC, Flores-Moreno H, Kemp DJ, Moles AT. Roses are red, violets are blue - so how much replication should you do? An assessment of variation in the colour of flowers and birds. Biol J Linn Soc Lond 2014. [DOI: 10.1111/bij.12402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Rhiannon L. Dalrymple
- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences; The University of New South Wales; Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
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- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences; The University of New South Wales; Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
- School of Mathematics and Statistics; University of New South Wales; Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
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- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences; The University of New South Wales; Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences; Macquarie University; Sydney NSW 2109 Australia
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- Evolution and Ecology Research Centre; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences; The University of New South Wales; Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
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Flores-Moreno H, García-Treviño ES, Letten AD, Moles AT. In the beginning: phenotypic change in three invasive species through their first two centuries since introduction. Biol Invasions 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s10530-014-0789-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Rollins LA, Moles AT, Lam S, Buitenwerf R, Buswell JM, Brandenburger CR, Flores-Moreno H, Nielsen KB, Couchman E, Brown GS, Thomson FJ, Hemmings F, Frankham R, Sherwin WB. High genetic diversity is not essential for successful introduction. Ecol Evol 2013; 3:4501-17. [PMID: 24340190 PMCID: PMC3856749 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.824] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2013] [Revised: 08/16/2013] [Accepted: 08/28/2013] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Some introduced populations thrive and evolve despite the presumed loss of diversity at introduction. We aimed to quantify the amount of genetic diversity retained at introduction in species that have shown evidence of adaptation to their introduced environments. Samples were taken from native and introduced ranges of Arctotheca populifolia and Petrorhagia nanteuilii. Using microsatellite data, we identified the source for each introduction, estimated genetic diversity in native and introduced populations, and calculated the amount of diversity retained in introduced populations. These values were compared to those from a literature review of diversity in native, confamilial populations and to estimates of genetic diversity retained at introduction. Gene diversity in the native range of both species was significantly lower than for confamilials. We found that, on average, introduced populations showing evidence of adaptation to their new environments retained 81% of the genetic diversity from the native range. Introduced populations of P. nanteuilii had higher genetic diversity than found in the native source populations, whereas introduced populations of A. populifolia retained only 14% of its native diversity in one introduction and 1% in another. Our literature review has shown that most introductions demonstrating adaptive ability have lost diversity upon introduction. The two species studied here had exceptionally low native range genetic diversity. Further, the two introductions of A. populifolia represent the largest percentage loss of genetic diversity in a species showing evidence of substantial morphological change in the introduced range. While high genetic diversity may increase the likelihood of invasion success, the species examined here adapted to their new environments with very little neutral genetic diversity. This finding suggests that even introductions founded by small numbers of individuals have the potential to become invasive.
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- Lee A Rollins
- School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University Geelong, Vic., 3216, Australia ; School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
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