期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 279, 期 1727, 页码 266-274出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0552
关键词
regional species pool; community assembly; phylogenetics; tropical niche conservatism; diversity gradients; Formicidae
资金
- NSERC
- NSF-DEB [910084]
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee
- DOE-PER [DE-FG02-08ER64510]
- NASA [ROSES-NNX09AK22G]
- Danish National Research Foundation
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0953390] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
There is a long tradition in ecology of evaluating the relative contribution of the regional species pool and local interactions on the structure of local communities. Similarly, a growing number of studies assess the phylogenetic structure of communities, relative to that in the regional species pool, to examine the interplay between broad-scale evolutionary and fine-scale ecological processes. Finally, a renewed interest in the influence of species source pools on communities has shown that the definition of the source pool influences interpretations of patterns of community structure. We use a continent-wide dataset of local ant communities and implement ecologically explicit source pool definitions to examine the relative importance of regional species pools and local interactions for shaping community structure. Then we assess which factors underlie systematic variation in the structure of communities along climatic gradients. We find that the average phylogenetic relatedness of species in ant communities decreases from tropical to temperate regions, but the strength of this relationship depends on the level of ecological realism in the definition of source pools. We conclude that the evolution of climatic niches influences the phylogenetic structure of regional source pools and that the influence of regional source pools on local community structure is strong.
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