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Pinanga palms revisited 20 years on: what can changes in Pinanga species populations tell us about rainforest understory palm persistence? JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY 2022. [DOI: 10.1017/s0266467422000256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Borneo is the centre of diversity of the palm genus Pinanga. At least 13 understory species have been recorded in the Ulu Temburong National Park in Brunei, but little is known of their persistence. Changes in populations of Pinanga understory palms may be indicative of more widespread changes due to climate change, such as changes in rainfall, which may be important for the palm diversity in the protected area. However, we know little about the population dynamics of these palms, how persistent their populations are or if they behave similarly over long time frames. In 1998, populations of five co-occurring species of Pinanga at several locations in the Ulu Temburong National Park were documented. This project aimed to undertake a comprehensive resurvey of the original five Pinanga palm species populations in order to assess if they showed similar population changes across sites and species after two decades. Overall, most species maintained their population size in the surveyed region but not consistently among sites, and one species significantly declined in abundance. There was considerable variation in population growth rate (R) within and among species and sites that was significantly correlated with density and the percentage of multi-stemmed plants. There was evidence of pulsed recruitment in some species and or sites rather than steady or exponential patterns of population growth.
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McFadden IR, Fritz SA, Zimmermann NE, Pellissier L, Kissling WD, Tobias JA, Schleuning M, Graham CH. Global plant-frugivore trait matching is shaped by climate and biogeographic history. Ecol Lett 2022; 25:686-696. [PMID: 35199916 PMCID: PMC9302656 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13890] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2021] [Revised: 03/27/2021] [Accepted: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Species interactions are influenced by the trait structure of local multi‐trophic communities. However, it remains unclear whether mutualistic interactions in particular can drive trait patterns at the global scale, where climatic constraints and biogeographic processes gain importance. Here we evaluate global relationships between traits of frugivorous birds and palms (Arecaceae), and how these relationships are affected, directly or indirectly, by assemblage richness, climate and biogeographic history. We leverage a new and expanded gape size dataset for nearly all avian frugivores, and find a positive relationship between gape size and fruit size, that is, trait matching, which is influenced indirectly by palm richness and climate. We also uncover a latitudinal gradient in trait matching strength, which increases towards the tropics and varies among zoogeographic realms. Taken together, our results suggest trophic interactions have consistent influences on trait structure, but that abiotic, biogeographic and richness effects also play important, though sometimes indirect, roles in shaping the functional biogeography of mutualisms.
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- Ian R McFadden
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland.,Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.,Institut für Geowissenschaften, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland.,Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Birmensdorf, Switzerland
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Janssens SB, Couvreur TLP, Mertens A, Dauby G, Dagallier LPMJ, Vanden Abeele S, Vandelook F, Mascarello M, Beeckman H, Sosef M, Droissart V, van der Bank M, Maurin O, Hawthorne W, Marshall C, Réjou-Méchain M, Beina D, Baya F, Merckx V, Verstraete B, Hardy O. A large-scale species level dated angiosperm phylogeny for evolutionary and ecological analyses. Biodivers Data J 2020; 8:e39677. [PMID: 32015666 PMCID: PMC6987248 DOI: 10.3897/bdj.8.e39677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2019] [Accepted: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Phylogenies are a central and indispensable tool for evolutionary and ecological research. Even though most angiosperm families are well investigated from a phylogenetic point of view, there are far less possibilities to carry out large-scale meta-analyses at order level or higher. Here, we reconstructed a large-scale dated phylogeny including nearly 1/8th of all angiosperm species, based on two plastid barcoding genes, matK (incl. trnK) and rbcL. Novel sequences were generated for several species, while the rest of the data were mined from GenBank. The resulting tree was dated using 56 angiosperm fossils as calibration points. The resulting megaphylogeny is one of the largest dated phylogenetic tree of angiosperms yet, consisting of 36,101 sampled species, representing 8,399 genera, 426 families and all orders. This novel framework will be useful for investigating different broad scale research questions in ecological and evolutionary biology.
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- Steven B Janssens
- Botanic Garden Meise, Meise, Belgium Botanic Garden Meise Meise Belgium.,Laboratory for Plant Conservation and Population Biology, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium Laboratory for Plant Conservation and Population Biology, KULeuven Leuven Belgium
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- DIADE, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France DIADE, IRD, Univ. Montpellier Montpellier France
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- Botanic Garden Meise, Meise, Belgium Botanic Garden Meise Meise Belgium
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- AMAP Lab, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France AMAP Lab, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Univ Montpellier Montpellier France
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- DIADE, IRD, Univ. Montpellier, Montpellier, France DIADE, IRD, Univ. Montpellier Montpellier France
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- Botanic Garden Meise, Meise, Belgium Botanic Garden Meise Meise Belgium
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- Botanic Garden Meise, Meise, Belgium Botanic Garden Meise Meise Belgium
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- AMAP Lab, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France AMAP Lab, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Univ Montpellier Montpellier France
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- University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa University of Johannesburg Johannesburg South Africa
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- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom Royal Botanic Gardens Kew United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford Oxford United Kingdom
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- Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge Cambridge United Kingdom
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- AMAP Lab, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France AMAP Lab, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Univ Montpellier Montpellier France
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- Université de Bangui - Cerphameta, Bangui, Central African Republic Université de Bangui - Cerphameta Bangui Central African Republic
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- Ministère des Eaux, Forêts, Chasse et Pêche, Bangui, Central African Republic Ministère des Eaux, Forêts, Chasse et Pêche Bangui Central African Republic
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- Department of Evolutionary and Population Biology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Department of Evolutionary and Population Biology, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands.,Understanding Evolution Group, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands Understanding Evolution Group, Naturalis Biodiversity Center Leiden Netherlands
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- Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Natural History Museum, University of Oslo Oslo Norway
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- Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium Universite Libre de Bruxelles Brussels Belgium
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Kissling WD, Balslev H, Baker WJ, Dransfield J, Göldel B, Lim JY, Onstein RE, Svenning JC. PalmTraits 1.0, a species-level functional trait database of palms worldwide. Sci Data 2019; 6:178. [PMID: 31551423 PMCID: PMC6760217 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-019-0189-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2019] [Accepted: 08/09/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Plant traits are critical to plant form and function -including growth, survival and reproduction- and therefore shape fundamental aspects of population and ecosystem dynamics as well as ecosystem services. Here, we present a global species-level compilation of key functional traits for palms (Arecaceae), a plant family with keystone importance in tropical and subtropical ecosystems. We derived measurements of essential functional traits for all (>2500) palm species from key sources such as monographs, books, other scientific publications, as well as herbarium collections. This includes traits related to growth form, stems, armature, leaves and fruits. Although many species are still lacking trait information, the standardized and global coverage of the data set will be important for supporting future studies in tropical ecology, rainforest evolution, paleoecology, biogeography, macroecology, macroevolution, global change biology and conservation. Potential uses are comparative eco-evolutionary studies, ecological research on community dynamics, plant-animal interactions and ecosystem functioning, studies on plant-based ecosystem services, as well as conservation science concerned with the loss and restoration of functional diversity in a changing world.
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- W Daniel Kissling
- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94240, 1090 GE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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- Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 94240, 1090 GE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- Section for Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
- Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World (BIOCHANGE), Department of Bioscience, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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Onstein RE, Baker WJ, Couvreur TLP, Faurby S, Svenning JC, Kissling WD. Frugivory-related traits promote speciation of tropical palms. Nat Ecol Evol 2017; 1:1903-1911. [PMID: 29062122 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0348-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Accepted: 09/19/2017] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Animal-mediated seed dispersal by frugivorous birds and mammals is central to the ecology and functioning of ecosystems, but whether and how frugivory-related traits have affected plant speciation remains little explored. Fruit size is directly linked to plant dispersal capacity and therefore influences gene flow and genetic divergence of plant populations. Using a global species-level phylogeny with comprehensive data on fruit sizes and plant species distributions, we test whether fruit size has affected speciation rates of palms (Arecaceae), a plant family characteristic of tropical rainforests. Globally, the results reveal that palms with small fruit sizes have increased speciation rates compared with those with large (megafaunal) fruits. Speciation of small-fruited palms is particularly high in the understory of tropical rainforests in the New World, and on islands in the Old World. This suggests that frugivory-related traits in combination with geography and the movement behaviour of frugivores can influence the speciation of fleshy-fruited plants.
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- Renske E Onstein
- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, PO Box 94248, Amsterdam, 1090 GE, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 461, SE 405 30, Göteborg, Sweden.,Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Box 461, SE 405 30, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, Aarhus C, DK-8000, Denmark
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- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, PO Box 94248, Amsterdam, 1090 GE, The Netherlands.
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