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Morphological and phylogenetic factors structure the distribution of damselfly and dragonfly species (Odonata) along an environmental gradient in Amazonian streams

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ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
卷 122, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107257

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Anisoptera; Latent classes; Evolutionary history; Response pattern; Morphological similarity; Zygoptera

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  1. National Institute of Science and Technology Biodiversity and Land Use in the Amazon (Instituto Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia Biodiversidade e Uso da Terra na Amazonia
  2. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)) [574008/2008-0]
  3. Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria-Embrapa) [SEG: 02.08.06.005.00]
  4. Nature Conservancy and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) [NE/F01614X/1, NE/G000816/1]
  5. Biodiversity Research Consortium Brazil-Norway (BRC)
  6. Hydro Alunorte Company
  7. CNPq [304710/2019-9]
  8. CAPES
  9. United Kingdom Darwin Initiative [17-023]
  10. BRC
  11. CAPES, through PROCAD AMAZONIA/CAPES [88881.474457/2020-01]
  12. Pro-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pos-Graduacao (PROPESP)
  13. Universidade Federal do Para (UFPA) [Edital 01/2018]

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The structure of ecological communities is influenced by factors like niches, dispersal limits, and evolutionary history of species. Recent research in Brazilian Amazonia on adult damselflies and dragonflies showed that species with similar responses to environmental gradients tend to be more closely related phylogenetically and morphologically. This suggests that both morphology and phylogeny play important roles in determining species' responses to environmental changes.
A range of factors may determine the structure of ecological communities in time and space, in particular niches, dispersal limits, and the evolutionary history of the species. In the last decades, the traditional focus of community ecology on species diversity and composition have been supplemented by approaches incorporating functional traits and phylogeny. Following this perspective, we evaluated the response pattern of adult damselflies and dragonflies (Odonata) along a gradient of environmental disturbance in Brazilian Amazonia, with the objective of identifying subgroups of species that respond in a similar manner to environmental filters. The study tested the hypothesis that the subgroups of species with similar responses to the environmental gradient are structured phylogenetically and will be morphologically more similar to one another than they are to the other species. Adult odonates were sampled in 98 Amazonian streams, 48 in the region of Santarem and Belterra and 50 in the municipality of Paragominas, both located in the Brazilian state of Para. The study was based on an ecological niche modeling approach and statistical significance testing methods to identify groups of species. These species groups (latent classes) were then associated with their morphological characteristics (Abdomen Length and Thorax Length) and phylogenetic relationships. Four latent classes, containing 34 species, were generated for each region. The latent classes of the Odonata formed along the gradient of anthropogenic impact had effects of phylogenetic proximity and the species' morphological similarity. Therefore, species belonging to the same latent class are more morphologically similar and have greater similarities in evolutionary history. It seems likely, however, that other processes may be important for the understanding of the structuring of the latent classes, such as intraand interspecific relationships, environmental plasticity, and the history of land use. Both morphology and phylogeny are important for understanding species' responses to environmental gradients.

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