Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity
Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity
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2011
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Cianciaruso, Marcus V.
Loyola, Rafael D.
Brito, Daniel
Armour-Marshall, Katrina
Diniz-Filho, José Alexandre F.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B : Biological Sciences ; 366 (2011), 1577. - pp. 2536-2544. - Royal Society of London. - ISSN 0080-4622. - eISSN 1471-2970
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Documenting and exploring the patterns of diversity of life on Earth has always been a central theme in biology. Species richness despite being the most commonly used measure of diversity in macroecological studies suffers from not considering the evolutionary and ecological differences among species. Phylogenetic diversity (PD) and functional diversity (FD) have been proposed as alternative measures to overcome this limitation. Although species richness, PD and FD are closely related, their relationships have never been investigated on a global scale. Comparing PD and FD with species richness corroborated the general assumptions of surrogacy of the different diversity measures. However, the analysis of the residual variance suggested that the mismatches between the diversity measures are influenced by environmental conditions. PD increased relative to species richness with increasing mean annual temperature, whereas FD decreased with decreasing seasonality relative to PD. We also show that the tropical areas are characterized by a FD deficit, a phenomenon, that suggests that in tropical areas more species can be packed into the ecological space. We discuss potential mechanisms that could have resulted in the gradient of spatial mismatch observed in the different biodiversity measures and draw parallels to local scale studies. We conclude that the use of multiple diversity measures on a global scale can help to elucidate the relative importance of historical and ecological processes shaping the present gradients in mammalian diversity.
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niche conservatism, evolutionary history, environmental heterogeneity, trait diversity
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SAFI, Kamran, Marcus V. CIANCIARUSO, Rafael D. LOYOLA, Daniel BRITO, Katrina ARMOUR-MARSHALL, José Alexandre F. DINIZ-FILHO, 2011. Understanding global patterns of mammalian functional and phylogenetic diversity. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B : Biological Sciences. Royal Society of London. 366(1577), pp. 2536-2544. ISSN 0080-4622. eISSN 1471-2970. Available under: doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0024BibTex
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