生物
生物扩散
食果动物
生态学
种子散布
特质
群岛
分类单元
克莱德
消光(光学矿物学)
植物进化
树上运动
系统发育树
人口
程序设计语言
栖息地
古生物学
人口学
社会学
基因组
基因
生物化学
计算机科学
作者
Jedediah F. Brodie,L. Francisco Henao‐Díaz,Bayu Arief Pratama,Conner Copeland,Travis J. Wheeler,Olga E. Helmy
摘要
Community trait assembly, the formation of distributions of phenotypic characteristics across coexisting species, can occur via two main processes: filtering of trait distributions from the regional pool and in situ phenotypic evolution in local communities. But the relative importance of these processes remains unclear, largely because of the difficulty in determining the timing of evolutionary trait changes and biogeographic dispersal events in phylogenies. We assessed evolutionary and biogeographic transitions in woody plant species across the Indo-Malay archipelago, a series of island groups where the same plant lineages interact with different seed disperser and seed predator assemblages. Fruit size in 2,650 taxa spanning the angiosperm tree of life tended to be smaller in the Sulawesi and Maluku island groups, where frugivores are less diverse and smaller bodied, than in the regional source pool. While numerous plant lineages (not just small-fruited ones) reached the isolated islands, colonists tended to be the smaller-fruited members of each clade. Nearly all of the evolutionary transitions to smaller fruit size predated, often substantially, organismal dispersal to the islands. Our results suggest that filtering rather than within-island evolution largely determined the distribution of fruit sizes in these regions.
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